Essays on Meaning
Date Published: 10-01-2025
Publisher: Sketpika Press
gone for centuries. The problem: most of us don’t have authentic beliefs
or a clear path in life.
What do we believe? Whatever they told us to believe.
What do we do? Whatever other people are doing.
How many lies have we welcomed into our lives without having seriously
analyzed them?
It’s the reason many of us feel empty inside—there’s nothing
there but convenient mistruths, and at some level, we all know it. We then
orient our lives based on these false beliefs, wasting our precious limited
time among the living striving for goals that leave us ultimately unsatisfied.
The False Paradigms of Today and The Timeless Truth of Tomorrow by John Bliss
takes a steak knife to these common delusions with 13 irreverent essays that
rip and tear at the foundations of our collective worldview. Little is held
sacred to Bliss.
Than You Think dispel our delusions one at a time, including:
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- our mistaken belief in progress,
- our misplaced confidence in our own rational prowess,
- our loss of personal identity from group identification,
- our misplaced faith in science as a true representation of the world, and
- our morality: what it is and where exactly it comes from.
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After carving away these restrictive untruths, Part 2: An Exploration of Truth
Across Historical, Mystical, and Philosophical Dimensions introduces a deeper
understanding of humanity based on history, mysticism, psychology and
philosophy. Some of the topics in Part 2 include:
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- how our religions became second-rate pathways to God,
- our reliance on logic and how it warps our decision-making,
- how idealism can lead to mass murder and tyranny,
- the overriding importance of history, where we’ve been, where we are
going and why, - our immaterial connection to all people living and dead—Jung’s
collective unconscious, Emerson’s Over-Soul, and Varro’s Soul of
the World, and finally - the bedrock assumption that we all got wrong. Switch this out, and everything
changes.
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the apostles Paul and Peter with the Emperor Nero and Simon Magus the
magician, the mystical transformation of Emmanuel Swedenborg, the nineteenth
century German intellectual revolution, the establishment of three French
religions worshipping not God but Reason and Humanity, the abdication of the
World Teacher, and the genocide of the Tibetan culture.
and historians, and those disillusioned with the emptiness of contemporary
thought. Discover why your view of reality may be distorted—and how by
changing the one assumption on which your entire world-view is based,
everything shifts.
our lives. He is at heart a skeptic, as very few authorities have provided
answers that are believable. He distrusts groups of all kinds, as they are no
smarter than individuals, who don’t know half as much as they think they do.
He even distrusts himself, as no human can understand reality.
Some of his major accomplishments include being kicked out of the National
Honor Society and the CEO Round Table. He graduated with a bachelor’s in
History, and a masters degree in mechanical engineering. He founded and grew
an engineering company and sold it after 25 years. And of course, he completed
his book, The False Paradigms of Today and the Timeless Truth of Tomorrow,
after 13 years of research, writing, and rewriting.
To this day, he continues to ask the big questions: Who are we? What’s
truly important? How should we live our lives? On most days he thinks he has
them figured out.
When he is not writing, he cuts wood and digs ditches. Bliss remains at large
somewhere in the mountains of California.
