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Self and Mind: A Journey Through Truth, Reality, and MeaningBy Neville Hicks What happens when understanding no longer brings relief? Many people reach a point where insight, knowledge, and self-awareness stop working. The explanations make sense, the psychology is familiar, the philosophy resonates-yet something remains unresolved. Life appears functional, even successful, but a quiet unease persists. Self and Mind is written for those who recognize this moment. This is not a self-help book. It does not offer techniques, habits, or beliefs to adopt. It does not promise improvement, motivation, or transformation. Instead, it examines the assumptions beneath the search for meaning itself-particularly the idea of a separate self that must be fixed, fulfilled, or completed. Through clear, precise language, Neville Hicks explores the nature of identity, thought, awareness, and meaning without relying on doctrine, spirituality, or ideology. The book moves from the subtle dissatisfaction that arises when borrowed meaning no longer satisfies, into a direct examination of the self as a psychological pattern rather than a fixed presence. Readers are invited to observe how thoughts arise on their own, why silence can feel threatening, and how effort-especially the effort to improve or resolve oneself-often obscures clarity rather than producing it. From there, the book turns toward a quieter form of understanding: seeing without repair, attention without direction, and clarity as subtraction rather than accumulation. In its final movement, Self and Mind addresses what remains when identity loosens and familiar narratives collapse. Rather than descending into nihilism, it reveals meaning not as something constructed through purpose or belief, but as something that emerges naturally through direct contact with experience. Presence replaces purpose. Responsiveness replaces striving. This book will resonate with readers interested in philosophy, consciousness, non-duality, psychology, and existential inquiry-particularly those who feel they have outgrown conventional self-help and spiritual frameworks. Influences may be felt by readers familiar with thinkers such as J. Krishnamurti, Alan Watts, Zen philosophy, or contemporary explorations of awareness and identity, though the book stands entirely on its own. Self and Mind does not ask to be believed. It asks only to be read attentively. It is for readers who value clarity over comfort, honesty over reassurance, and direct seeing over explanation. Those looking for answers may be disappointed. Those willing to question the need for answers may find something quieter-and more stable-than meaning as they have known it. This is not a book about becoming someone else. It is a book about what remains when that effort ends.

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