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An important and fascinating book about the origin, history and impending demise of the ego - humanity's collective dysfunction. The Fall is highly readable and enlightening, as the author's acute mind is at all times imbued with the higher faculty of spiritual awareness. --Eckhart Tolle, author of A New Earth, The Power of Now and many more
It is my fervent wish that this important book will have a wide audience. In a world where the very existence of humanity is threatened, Steve Taylor offers a visionary yet practical path out of the morass that distorts human nature. --Stanley Krippner, Professor of Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School, California
This is an important book which deserves to be read widely. Ultimately Taylor brings a message of hope. He challenges us all to transcend the ego and integrate the intellectual brilliance it has given us with the intense connectedness and aliveness that spiritual practices can bring us. He challenges us to make a difference to the world by transforming ourselves through meditation and the pragmatic activities of service, living lightly and promoting social change. He presents a vision of a possible future in which there is no war ... male domination and social inequality, no shame of sex or the body, and no domination of other species and the natural world. Written in clear, lucid prose, this book is easy to read and Taylor s sources are well referenced for those who want to dig deeper. I strongly recommend it. , --Malcom Hollick, author The Science of Oneness
It is my fervent wish that this important book will have a wide audience. In a world where the very existence of humanity is threatened, Steve Taylor offers a visionary yet practical path out of the morass that distorts human nature. --Stanley Krippner, Professor of Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School, California
This is an important book which deserves to be read widely. Ultimately Taylor brings a message of hope. He challenges us all to transcend the ego and integrate the intellectual brilliance it has given us with the intense connectedness and aliveness that spiritual practices can bring us. He challenges us to make a difference to the world by transforming ourselves through meditation and the pragmatic activities of service, living lightly and promoting social change. He presents a vision of a possible future in which there is no war ... male domination and social inequality, no shame of sex or the body, and no domination of other species and the natural world. Written in clear, lucid prose, this book is easy to read and Taylor s sources are well referenced for those who want to dig deeper. I strongly recommend it. , --Malcom Hollick, author The Science of Oneness
Stanley Krippner, Professor of Pscychology, Saybrook Graduate School, California
It is my fervent wish that this important book will have a wide audience.
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75 of 82 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book after reading Eckhart Tolle's endorsement: "A fascinating and important book on the origin, development and the imminent demise of the ego...Highly readable and enlightening, as the author's acute mind is imbued with the higher faculty of spiritual awareness." Eckhart Tolle's books have changed my life so I was sure this book would be important for me too, and haven't been wrong. I've read it through over the last three days and feel also though my whole outlook on the world has been altered. This book is a complete revisioning of human history from a spiritual point of view, seeing human history in terms of the development of the ego, looking at how the ego has given rise to thousands of years of violence and oppression. Taylor looks in turn at warfare, male domination, social inequality, alienation from the body, abuse of the natural world and so on, showing how the over-developed sense of ego produces these problems.
The book makes the important point - using a massive range of research - that earlier human beings and many of the world's native peoples - did not have our strong sense of self or ego and so were free from all of this disorder. The book's depiction of how the insanity of so much human behaviour is produced by the ego is riveting and extremely impressive. After reading this there is no way you can look at "normal" human behaviour in the same way. Taylor makes it absolutely clear that what we consider as normal is, in many ways, insane. And just as impressively, Taylor puts together an extremely good case for the idea that we are beginning to transcend the insanity of the ego and moving into a new era. This is one of those books which makes you look at the world in a new light, and gives you inspiration and hope for the future. Somehow it gives me the inspiration to try to fight for a better world, to contribute to the collective change which is taking place, and rekindle the state of harmony which the human race has lost.
The book makes the important point - using a massive range of research - that earlier human beings and many of the world's native peoples - did not have our strong sense of self or ego and so were free from all of this disorder. The book's depiction of how the insanity of so much human behaviour is produced by the ego is riveting and extremely impressive. After reading this there is no way you can look at "normal" human behaviour in the same way. Taylor makes it absolutely clear that what we consider as normal is, in many ways, insane. And just as impressively, Taylor puts together an extremely good case for the idea that we are beginning to transcend the insanity of the ego and moving into a new era. This is one of those books which makes you look at the world in a new light, and gives you inspiration and hope for the future. Somehow it gives me the inspiration to try to fight for a better world, to contribute to the collective change which is taking place, and rekindle the state of harmony which the human race has lost.
60 of 67 people found the following review helpful
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This book is amazing - a review of human history over thousands of years and looking into the future as well - it has a vast scope. But most of all it has a powerful spiritual perspective, looking at how the human mind (the over-developed ego as the author calls it) has given birth to most of our problems in history and in terms of our own psychology. For the last 6000 years human life has been full of suffering - but now, according to the this book, we may be moving into a new evolutionary phase, in which we are beginning to transcend our insanity and the social and psychological problems which come from it. I saw this book recommended on Eckhart Tolle's website, and have not been disappointed. A powerful combination of history, psychology and spirtuality.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is a massively important book with a massive scope. It's one of those books which changes the way you look at the world, and gives you some hope the future. There's so much in it that you feel you could read it a dozen times and still find new things.
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The Fall
This is a very well researched book that gives a cogent argument for why the peoples on this planet have been at war for the last 8,000 years. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr Dave C
Complete Supposition
I found the many assumptions within this book rather childish and juvenile. That's all I have to say. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Monk
one-sided and selective...
This book is easy to read and to understand, but I felt that the writer is selective and one-sided with the evidence. Read more
Published 17 months ago by mikkip
no need to read anything else!
There is nothing to add to the reviews already written but I do want to add to the amount of well deserved praise directed at the author! Read more
Published 17 months ago by V. Mckenna
Bring On a New Age of Sanity!
Have the majority of human beings departed from their sanity? According to Steve Taylor that is possibly the case, and he reckons we can pinpoint when our crazy train left, and... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Maddy T
The Fall
A very profound read. The history and philosophy are essential for understanding the psycholgy of the human condition.
Published 23 months ago by Chateau H
naive is maybe a bit kind..
This book looks quite convincing and scientific but so many times the "evidence" is selective,particularly absences of proof are taken as proof of absence (eg of aggression in... Read more
Published 24 months ago by Silver Moon Sailor
An ego-busting page-turner
Steve Taylor knows how to keep his readers hooked in spite of the many quotes and historical references in this oterhwise compelling read. Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2010 by Oscar Del Santo
Naïve
Just wanted to back up the other critical reviewer; while I do not agree with some of the other reviewer's points, the bottom line remains: This book is a naïve, feel-good book... Read more
Published on 11 Nov 2009 by asp
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If every human on the planet could read this book then we would all be living in peace.
Published on 6 Nov 2009 by Mr. J. Cooke
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