HARVEST. The hidden neuroscience of control. Vol. 1

Are you certain you are living your own life? That you choose what to want, what to fear, what to believe in, and how to spend the only span of time you have been given? In truth, your desires, your fears, and even your personality may have been formed long before you ever learned to make a conscious choice. The Harvest is an audit of the programs that turn human thinking into a set of predictable reactions. Six mechanisms — the herd, attention, fear, biochemistry, language, and the false I — are subjected to detailed analysis. The purpose of this book is to expose the hidden principles of control, for to understand a mechanism is to strip it of its power. Before you is the first volume of a trilogy. It examines the architecture of the modern farm on which the human being lives. This book was written for those who have felt since childhood that something about this world is fundamentally wrong. A warning: what you read here cannot be unseen.