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The materials in this document are intended for counselors who are seeking new tools and a new understanding of addiction without the almost obligatory religious perspective. In fact, this new perspective is secular – without religion – and provides some interesting insights for counselors dealing with patients who need that understanding. This document is the counselor’s companion document to the Patient version of this story entitle “The World’s First Drunk”. It contains a quiz for the patient and some talking points for group and individual discussion with the patient. The ...

Addiction is only possible to a person who is in denial of his own problems and who needs an “excuse” for escaping from his anxiety. It is a self-deception that exacerbates an individual’s problems by offering short-term pleasure as a solution for long-term anxiety. Yet, without self-deception, addiction would not be possible. You can go through scientific study after scientific study and none of them deal with the fact that any consumption item or activity that produces pleasure (but not nourishment) requires an excuse (or an argument) for its intake. In truth, most people eat way ...

This theatrical play is based upon poems from Mr. Villegas's book Poetic Prose and Poetry. Some of the poems have been slightly altered to reflect the internal story of the play. The title poem is about the citizen journalist and how he has changed the world through his computer.

This book is designed as a “shorter” explanation of the ideas presented in my larger book, “Behind the Ritual Mask” which seeks to define fundamental principles of religion. I’m hoping this book will serve as a primer for the original book and spur an interest in reading it. The following contains excerpts from the original Forward of the book.When an entrenched, anti-reason culture is presented with new ideas that challenge its fundamental premises, it relies on the power of what is taken as knowledge in the culture in order to defend itself. Indeed, when corrupt ideas are ...

The Short Play Adam Reborn has been joined by a short story originally entitled "The Garden" which started over 40 years ago as the precursor to the Play. This story has been updated and refurbished to give it a consistent new theme that joins the two works and gives a fresh perspective on the nature of man and the glory of human accomplishment. The result is a tribute to man's greatness and his unending pursuit of values.

This is the second edition of this groundbreaking book. The enemy of individual rights today is a group I call the Alinsky Radicals. They are associated, philosophically and politically, with the communists and fascists of the past. They are not your father’s liberals. In this book, I provide the intellectual ammunition you need to eradicate these radicals from society. First, we’ll identify the context that enabled these parasites to emerge. Then we’ll analyze the fundamental principle in Hegel’s philosophy and show that it is untrue and unworkable. We’ll also examine their other...

This book includes two chapters from my book Individualism that I have decided to publish as a separate small book with related content.

Most of us have heard the cliché: “Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss”. The same can be said about Peter Singer’s effective altruism: “Meet effective altruism, same as the old altruism”. Indeed, the problem with the new altruism is that it is altruism, nonetheless. This is because the fundamentals of effective altruism are the same as the fundamentals of primordial human sacrifice that began with the decimation of a scapegoat. Today’s altruists, as if seeming to realize that the old altruism has never been effective, are now offering what they deem to be an “effective”...

You have a yearning, a passion for some form of the good. What is it? You only know that you are confused, unclear, unable to decide just who you are and what you want. You look around and see the people. You wonder what makes them move each day? You notice some of them act as if they don’t care what happens next, they are dressed differently and seem not to care what they look like or how people react to them. Others move briskly bent on a purpose, concerned only about what they are about. People walk by them; they don’t even notice. They just keep to their path and you wonder where ...

How Pragmatism Destroyed a World is a powerful book about how ideas influence the most tragic events of history. It holds that everyone in the world has the same disease – and we are all dying from it. This is because much of man’s institutional knowledge descended from myths that ignored reality and existence. This so-called knowledge led to pragmatism and existential incompetence and this led to the brainwashing of the human mind. Since pragmatism is incapable of leading to understanding, and most of our leaders are educated in today’s universities, they are, almost as a group, ...

I wrote this book to ask some important questions: 1. Will we become again a free people, deciding as individuals the direction of our lives or will we continue to be herded into groups and classes to be favored or rejected by a ruling elite? 2. Will we be free to start businesses, earn profits and keep those profits or will we be enslaved in order to feed the government as it advances social engineering and corporatist (cronyist) schemes? 3. Will we pay high taxes of low taxes? 4. Will we be allowed to participate in our own lives or be mindless slaves to the wishes of others? 5. Will we ...

Amerigo was born in a time of desperation and dystopia. He was the only man with the vision of a great future. Many repaired to his cause while others swore to destroy him. They wanted his life, his mind and everything he loved. He swore that no matter what they did, he would win the struggle for freedom and a new future.

Calming the mind and quiet thinking are two new premises of rational meditation. This guide to rational thinking takes on mysticism, mindfulness and eastern religious influences by explaining how they do not help men live by means of reason and rational thinking. Mindfulness, in particular, is the meditation system of the left. The author shows how meditation can be done without mysticism, leftist philosophy and the denigration of the individual. Rational Meditation is not about collective joining with groups of like-minded people (Plato) and/or becoming Hephaistos (Freud and Jung). It is ...

This stage play is about the struggle of the main character, Ricard, who has recently been arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol. The play chronicles his personal struggle to deal with how he became an alcoholic and how to repair his life. It focuses on his values, how to identify their role in his life, and how he can shed alcohol as a value. As he begins to understand what is important in his life, he begins the trek from his distorted value structure to what is important in life.

This theatrical presentation features romantic love poems found in Mr. Villegas's books Poetic Prose and Poetry, The Raven Haired Girl and others. The poems are arranged so they create a love story about a young woman and her soldier husband.

We live in a city on a river. Our city is called New America, and our river is the river Styx. We don’t know how the river got this name, but it is a very wide body of water and, they say, on the other side of the river are some very bad people. We have been at war with them all our lives and almost all the news we receive is about the war and how our Supreme Leader is winning it. We give the bodies of our young to fight this war and some never return. They are lost in the greyness on the other side of the river. We never think about losing them because they don’t know their parents, ...