The Unbearable Wrongness of Being: Exploring and Getting Beyond the Myth of Unhappiness

by Frank Mosca

Overview

The Unbearable Wrongness of Being is an exploration of the Option Method perspective through the device of literary vignettes taken from classic literature and altered to create an Option dialogue in each story. The Option Method is a way to let go of your unhappiness through a dialogue method of self inquiry. It is a self educational tool that allows you to get to the heart of your assumptions about unhappiness and gradually see reality in a new light. It is practical, compassionate and non-ideological in nature. The fictionalized settings give a fine overview of how this method is utilized. You will see how Option could have operated with Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov and the Grand Inquisitor in particular; how it reflects itself in Tolstoy's "Death of Ivan Ilych,"; or in a lost dialogue of Plato, or in a new version of Euripides' Medea, or eavesdrop on an Option discussion with the Buddha. That and more covering themes of Death, the Meaning of History, Love, Hate, Evil etc., are brought to life in the creative setting of the Option perspective at work in the creative process, a process alive in each of us. Join these fiction characters on a journey of discovery and find yourself opening the door to greater joy along with them!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781469784366
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/07/2001
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	164
File size:	185 KB

Table of Contents

Chapter 1	Introduction	1
	The Pursuit of Happiness	1
	The Unbearable Wrongness of Being	4
	Belief: That Which Is Beloved	5
	Wanting: Bane or Bliss	7
	A World Without Judgements	12
	Fear: a Metachronic State: How the Future Not the Past Can Control the Present	15
	The Structure of Believing: Review and Application of the Option Method	17
	The Method: the Quiddities	19
	I Am Who I Am Who I Am	22
Chapter 2	Storming Heaven: the Myth of a Wrongful Beginning	25
	Prometheus Bound!	25
	Job's Response to Ishmael	28
	The Myth of the Garden of Knowing: Unde Malum/ from Whence Cometh Evil?	35
	Primal Dread and Primal Awe: What We Could Know from Chapter One	55
	Primal Dread "The Invisible Spheres Were Formed in Fright." Melville	56
Chapter 3	Freedom, Guilt and Evil, the "Indispensable Minus": How Can I Be Happy in a Such a World as This?	60
	The Brothers Karamazov of Dostoevsky: a Reprise of the Chapter "Pro And Contra" from an Option Perspective	60
	A Double Retells the Legend of the Grand Inquisitor	62
	The Cursed Questions	82
Chapter 4	The Painful Passions of Medea	84
	Perspectives on Love, Hate, Betrayal and Victimization	84
	If You Really Loved Me You Would	94
Chapter 5	Death, Fear and Regret	99
	Tolstoy's "Death of Ivan Ilych" Revisited	99
	Remembrance and Regret	100
	Final Things	114
	"The Horror, The Horror": Fears, Phobias, the Dread of Dread	115
	Those That Do Not Learn from the Future Are Doomed to Repeat It!	116
Chapter 6	"Eudaemonia": a "Lost" Dialogue of Plato on the Origins of Happiness	119
	No Pain, No Gain	132
Chapter 7	If You Meet the Buddha on the Road	136
	Meeting in the Wood	137
	Are You Good? Are All Things Good?	147
	Conclusion: "Oh Moment Stay!" (Goethe)	149