Self Rescue

Dr. John Kiley has done an exceptional job with this book. For those tortured souls who have addictions (tobacco, cocaine, opium--you name it) or who have recently lost a loved one, or who simply want to lose weight, this is the book you should have.This book is about how to stop torturing yourself with your own thoughts--fears of the future or remorse about the past--and get control of your life; how to stay in the Now, where everything happens, for as Dr. Kiley tells us, the past is no more and cannot be changed and the future has not yet arrived and no one can predict it accurately. Now is where everything happens.This book was named the Book of the Month by Psychology Today magazine when it was first published, and it has not diminished in value since then.Dr.Kiley is eminently qualified to write such a book. He holds doctorates in both philosophy and medicine, and trained at Princeton while Albert Einsteinwas in residence there. In fact, his doctoral dissertation was titled Einstein and Aquinas: A Rapprochement. He is a self-proclaimed "clinical philosopher," for as he explains everyone has a philosophy, whether they know it or not.John Kiley uses a concrete, down to earth method for controlling your mind and ridding yourself of unwanted thoughts which torture you. It works!Don't pass up this volume.Joseph Pierre

The healing of the psyche must, logically, follow from the healing of the being. We are taught to believe that thinking - right thinking, clever thinking, thorough thinking - will extract us from all the problems life throws at us. However, thought can be our worst adversary and obstacle. To ground oneself in the NOW, the real, the physical, is the first step toward healing the soul and putting "a tissue of healing" over our wounds - all of our wounds, most of which are self-inflicted through our relentless pursuit of thinking as our extrication and salvation. This book is not about saving oneself from suicide - it is about saving oneself from undermining the being, and thereby, the psyche, as phycology traditionally follows from the the traditions of philosophy, in this case, the study of ontiology, the study of the being. This book can guide one to practical real-time, honest and non-judgemental (aren't we our worst castigators?)means to cope with grief, remorse, depression and addiction in the NOW, with the understanding, of course that the building up of NOWS constitues not only the past, but the future. Yet, it is the NOW that we can effectively manipulate and choose to participate in. This book is a moving, forceful argument for self-empowerment through the only resources one needs - one's self and the physical world, not the ghostly caverns of our worst fears, vicarious imaginings and inner drama. It should be on everyone's shelf.