About the Author WARREN ARCHER had been deeply troubled by the idea of death from the tender age of six. From that time on, he sought answers to the existential questions that have haunted humankind for millennia. Nearly a decade later, his friend was hit by a freight train, turning Warren's search for truth into a quest for spiritual enlightenment.After several years of getting nowhere with this quest, not wanting to waste his life on a Tibetan mountaintop seeking something that might not even exist, he put enlightenment on indefinite hold to pursue more earthly ambitions.In 1998, as he battled his way up the ladder of conventional success, a transformative experience planted the seeds of what would eventually become the I Think, Therefore I Lie (ITTIL) technique. Unable to make sense of the experience, and still unwilling to be distracted from his material goals, he once again placed his pursuit of truth and lasting happiness on hold.In 2010, just when he believed he'd finally achieved most of his major life goals, within a year Warren was diagnosed with cancer, his career as an airline pilot was as good as over, his twenty-five-year marriage ended in divorce, he accrued $100,000 in debt, and a flood destroyed most of his home and everything in it.Yet after only a few years, he managed to turn it all around: He was happily remarried, out of debt, and back to flying as a captain for a major airline. No longer in survival mode, he was able to refocus on his search for truth and eventually complete the ITTIL technique. By virtue of this technique, when he was told his father had died, instead of grieving, he felt tremendous love and gratitude, and his fear of death and the search for truth and happiness outside the present moment came to a sudden end.Since then, Warren Archer has been helping others find inner peace and end their suffering by awakening now to the reality of what is. Read more
L**A
A great book that offers a genuinely innovative technique
I’m a practical person and I don’t usually gravitate to New Age touchy-feely stuff, but the title really got my attention and I wanted to see what this book was all about. Yes, the author does talk about awakening (though not is an off-putting way at all—he’s quite practical about it), but I was surprised to find that his logic was solid and the technique is actually useful, even for a pragmatist like me. The book is very well written, the message is clear, the technique is crystal clear, and there are tons of examples. My favorite bit is the Q&A, where the author basically answered all the questions I had.
D**.
Finding peace through truth
ITTIL is a love based technique to finding peace within ones self.Committing to this practice will reveal the tools to finding personal truth, offering a clear pathway to end the suffering through the knowledge of what truly is.
J**R
Thought provoking and interesting from both a psychological and spiritua
I found this book very thought provoking and interesting from both a psychological and spiritual point of view. I tried the very straightforward techniques to see how they work and was surprised at how they shifted my perception of situations and gave me a new way to look at challenging situations in my life.
D**.
The easiest way to peaceful mind
I read the book and loved it. The realization that you don't control your thoughts, so following them blindly and getting identified with them will almost certainly lead you into some form of suffering was an eye opener. I love the idea of using thoughts as tools and not as truths, which they are not.
H**G
good idea in a tedious package
I expected to love this book because I would be the target audience. I'm a Buddhist who has always been very interested in philosophy - I've studied everything from Hume to Nietzsche. Furthermore, I often use cognitive approaches to coping with mental health conditions. I am not at all skeptical about the root premise that thought creates suffering. I was already onboard when I started the book.Unfortunately the author completely lost me by the 30% mark. First of all, the book does an extensive amount of begging the question, making such bold assertions as "it is impossible to find truth through reason" without bothering to support these conclusions with evidence... or even a cohesive argument. The author's philosophy borrows so heavily from mainstream Buddhist thought and other philosophical thinking, but it gives no credit or explanation for the theoretical underpinning. Instead the author tries to justify his conclusions based on ostensibly related personal experiences. We're just supposed to take his word for it, because he meditated a lot and went on some foreign retreats. There was also apparently a hypnogogic hallucination in Villa di Papa which also led him to this wonderful technique. This all sounds very "woo" to me, and I am not into woo.So the Big Idea presented in this book is that all beliefs are untrue. Why? Because the author says so. I just can't swallow it. I can see how so-called psychological thoughts are all equally untrue, but so-called practical thoughts, like "I am 36 years old" may well cause suffering but it doesn't make them untrue. It is incumbent on the author to justify his premise, and he doesn't bother, so I have zero buy-in.And maybe I would have been able to accept these bold assertions if the material were presented in a more interesting and straightforward way. But I don't care for the meandering, pedantic exploration of the difference between "faith" and "belief" or any of these lengthy sidebar explanations. The style was just too unnecessarily lofty for me to get into.Overall, I'm really disappointed.I'm not sure who I would recommend this book to, because I would have thought I would be the perfect audience.
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