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The Evolutionary Glitch: Rise Above the Roots of your Problems
Through fifteen years of proof-thirsty work, Albert Garoli brings into focus the root of the problem-causing patterns we have adopted into our lives. This is the ‘glitch’ in the evolutionary development of the human brain; the Persona. Assembled out of our cultural and educational experiences, the Persona acts like a virus that infects our emotional, mental and physical health. It isolates us from our natural way of being and from each other, sabotaging fulfillment, success, and happiness.
Fusing modern neurobiology, quantum physics and ancient wisdom, the author provides exercises to break down these ingrained destructive neural pathways, so that we may once again be connected to our essential nature. With direct application to Psychology, Vitality, Sustainability and Community living, this manual for self-discovery provides a sound platform for self-challenge and a daring opportunity for us rise above the root of our problems.
By the end of this book, you will have learned that you are born with a unique direction in life that has a tendency to unfold, even if you don’t know it. You will notice that moving forward in the right direction and pursuing your unique path requires you to be attentive and adhere to the signs that your life and your body present to you. The sum of the signs constitutes your destiny. It is your challenge in life to discover it, pursue it, and master it.
Albert Garoli: The Author
Albert Garoli is a proficient health practitioner, medical researcher, and educator. He is a specialist in Ayurvedic medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Herbology, Biophysics, and Homotoxicology. Currently, he is teaching in the Italian College of Osteopathy (C.I.O) as well as the Italian School for Oriental Medicine (ScuolaTao), in convention with University Sapienza of Rome. He is also the director of the Holonomics cooperative project. His many years of experience have brought him to a revolutionary understanding of human neurobiology which he works diligently on teaching others.
Chapter 1: Know Thy Stance
The first chapter begins with a straightforward and simple definition of your actual condition in order to demonstrate how attitude plays a vital role in your orientation towards life. Our past behaviors bring us our current position in life, or stance. They have made us what we have become. Assessing the past will shed light on the causes of previous unsuccessful enterprises, and give insight into how to aim for the future.
Chapter 2: Know Thy Foe
Chapter 2 will expose the flaws of modern thinking revealing that our current path of “evolution” is not actually the best scenario for human beings. Our flaws have often led us to be discontent with what we have, incapable of expressing our given potential, and confused or obscured by a bombardment of external influences. We have been conditioned to adhere to unrealistic standards of beliefs, behaviors, and abilities. We have been taught to want what we don’t need and to be something we’re not. We have been conditioned to neglect our natural indicator of what is “good” or “bad.” We have been taught to copy given models rather than observe our natural tendencies, recognize ourselves, and learn what we were born to do. This chapter will identify the major sources of interference hindering our evolution.
Chapter 3: The Glitch
The third chapter is dedicated to revealing the root of your problems: the self-molded mask of the Persona. Your body is the vessel of your innate goals and tendencies, the molecular expression of your natural desires and attitudes, but is sabotaged by an acquired neuronal entity that hinders its progress. This chapter will delve into the core of human problems and will compare human Personae to acquired virus-like mental tendencies. It will show how the Persona is the exact cause of personal derangement from goals and achievements, as well as the source of social disintegration.
Chapter 4: When Coping Becomes Evading
The fourth chapter analyzes the various coping strategies are formed to overcome challenges and how these strategies are used by the Persona. Understanding how you naturally react to stress will help you understand the strategies you adopt to survive the tests of life. Adversities overcome by one generation are solved with similar tactics by the progeny who have acquired the methods and attitudes by imitation. Learning why you react in different ways to the challenges of life not only helps your positive progress but also assists the correct development of your offspring.
Chapter 5: Removing the Mask
Chapter 5 will identify the methods best used to rid yourself of the power the Persona has over you and embrace your true nature. Like a remedy for an illness, this chapter will provide exercises you can do to progress toward a better functioning self. Understanding your innate reaction to the environment and your natural tendencies will teach you how to read your “path” and change direction when you need to.
Chapter 6: Your Inner Compass
Inspired by past philosophies, Chapter 6 will provide a general outline of what you can do to remedy your social conditioning with emphasis on internal strength and congruence. This chapter will provide the core virtues you’ll need before focusing more specifically on your body, your mind, your goals, your values, and your overall potential. The old but reliable attitudes described in this chapter will give you a new point of view on how to harness your human side so that, by the end of the book, you will have definite guidelines to refer to. This chapter also provides a quick checklist of actions to perform in order to detect your natural indicators.
Chapter 7: Your Resonant Way
With the help of the seventh chapter, you will understand how your cells resonate with your environment. By understanding the human organism as a homogeneous and harmonious whole in which your body and natural orientation work together to create the individual that you are, you will come to understand that your real goal is easy to detect because it is literally “written” in your cells. This understanding will help you to follow your feelings as indicators, to identify the “resonant situation” that best suits and motivates you. You can recognize and hone in on these resonances to walk the path of your predispositions. Nature granted us a tool to determine our future orientation and it is up to us to use it.
Chapter 8: Encompassing Everything Under the Sun
The eighth chapter delves into the structure of life goals that drive people to be great human beings. The motivation behind extraordinary achievements is explained in the context of the survival of the species. Using the approach of harnessing tension and stress as sources of motivation, rather than a mechanism to hinder advancement, this chapter will help you understand how to propel yourself forward with direction and drive to achieve goals that are larger than yourself.
External Links
The Evolutionary Glitch [1]
Holonomics Community Website [2]
