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David Smails books work to a central theme that psychological distress arises not from illness or personal failure but as a response to damaging influences from the outside world He believes that such distress can be alleviated by care and understanding from our fellows He also examines how the dominant values of society and politics can have devastating effects on the individual and consequently that counsellors and therapists can have limited success in treating such problems that in fact it is the circumstances and not the individual that need to be altered
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The source of Mans unhappiness is his ignorance of NatureDHolbach believed that the misery he saw in mankind around him was caused by religion and its superstitious beliefs that there was a God who controlled destiny and would reward or punish individuals The System of Nature was written to replace these delusions with a schema of understanding based solely on the physical workings of nature Let Man study this nature let him learn her laws contemplate her energies For dHolbach the soul is only the physical body understood from a certain point of view which dies when the body dies All the events and the nature of the world can be understood in terms of the motion and properties of matter even the tiniest causes contribute to huge events a simple change in the diet of an Emperor or some other such insignificant cause he suggests might have been capable of saving kingdoms For him natures laws are fixed and necessary and if Man wants to find happiness it is best to accept this if governments want to rule wisely they should base themselves on this principle Mans fear of death and desire for immortality should be resisted and those in power should not be allowed to play upon these passionsClinamen Press has issued the book with a fully modernized text and a newly commissioned introduction by Michael Bush Recently retired from Manchester University where he was a reader in History his previous works include the very successful What is Love Richard Carliles Philosophy of Sex for Verso 1998 and Pilgrimage of Grace a Study of the Rebel Armies of October 1536 1996 He is a keen collector of rare books specializing in radical authors
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The primary cause of human suffering and unhappiness is an illusional sense of separation between the real Self and God It is only the habit of identifying with mental emotional and physical states and objective phenomena that causes and sustains the illusion of separate existence When this error is corrected enlightenment is spontaneously experienced To be enlightened is to know that we are spiritual beings and have accurate comprehensive knowledge of the infinite field of Consciousness and the processes of life
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