Mysteries in Broad Daylight: A Journey into the Deeper Meaning of Everyday Life [NOOK Book]

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Uncover clues to life’s profoundest enigmas — in your refrigerator, at the golf course, on your desk at work — everywhere! With apologies to Freud, a cigar is rarely just a cigar. A glass of scotch, a workplace conflict and a new hairstyle are also not simply what they appear to be. They’re clues to life’s deepest mysteries!

Odd though it may sound, a lost golf ball can be a doorway into the meaning of life. And a toasted corn muffin — if ...
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Mysteries in Broad Daylight: A Journey into the Deeper Meaning of Everyday Life

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Overview

Uncover clues to life’s profoundest enigmas — in your refrigerator, at the golf course, on your desk at work — everywhere! With apologies to Freud, a cigar is rarely just a cigar. A glass of scotch, a workplace conflict and a new hairstyle are also not simply what they appear to be. They’re clues to life’s deepest mysteries!

Odd though it may sound, a lost golf ball can be a doorway into the meaning of life. And a toasted corn muffin — if we’re able to fathom its secret — can lead us to the highest wisdom and enlightenment. Mysteries in Broad Daylight will teach you to decipher your interests, desires, conflicts and anxieties. Lifting the veil of mundane familiarity, the world emerges as an awesome mystery, which we’ll then unravel.

Unlike anything you’ve read before, Dr. Dillof’s groundbreaking new book will fill you with wonderment, laughter and illuminating insight!
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940014434317
  • Publisher: Mystical Kentuckian Press
  • Publication date: 5/21/2012
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 452
  • File size: 826 KB

Meet the Author

Mark Dillof has been offering philosophical counseling for over twenty years. Originally from New York City, he lived in Binghamton, New York for many years, which is the locale of the mystery trilogy, contained in these pages.

He’s currently director of The Dillof Institute for Transformative Knowing deeperquestions.com and Plato’s Attaché: Life & Business Advisory platosattache.com, both of which are located in Louisville, Kentucky. Many of the essays that appeared in Mysteries in Broad Daylight originally appeared in his popular blog:

Dr. Dillof is also author of Awakening with the Enemy: The Origin & End of Male/Female Conflict as well as The Paranoid Vision: The Worldview at the Root of Evil, which will soon be available. In addition to counseling and writing, Dr. Dillof offers seminars and workshops throughout the world.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 22, 2012

    Mysteries in Broad Daylight is a self-help book, with the allur

    Mysteries in Broad Daylight is a self-help book, with the allure of a detective thriller. The mysteries that Mark Dillof's book explores are philosophical and psychological in nature. It instructs readers in the art of deciphering their everyday interests, desires, activities, conflicts, and anxieties.

    Along the way, Mysteries in Broad Daylight analyzes the symbolic meaning of everything from the game of golf to Burger King’s "Angry Whoppers,” from the appeal of tattoos to various popular jokes, from green kryptonite to the fascination with zombies. Each analysis provides readers with further clues to understanding themselves and decoding the ultimate mysteries of human existence.

    What makes the book particularly engaging is its hybrid format, consisting of a trilogy of dialogues, commentary and related essays. The trilogy derives from the lively philosophical counseling groups that Dr. Dillof has conducted, over the years. The dialogues plumb life’s depths, while being highly entertaining, containing music and a good deal of humor.

    Mysteries in Broad Daylight is written to be read, as a work of nonfiction, but the trilogy within it offers splendid possibilities for theatrical and film production. What Dr. Dillof has, in essence, created is a new genre, a synthesis of a Platonic dialogue and Broadway theater comedy.

    (For the sake of honesty, I wish to disclose that I am intimately acquainted with the author, Dr. Mark Dillof. It is rare to encounter a finer fellow than he and a better friend. Dr. Dillof combines an amazing depth of insight into life with a wonderful joviality. That rare combination of seriousness and mirth shows up in all of his writings, which are a delight to read. Well, for the sake of full disclosure, I'll finally ad that I am Dr. Mark Dillof.)

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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