Return to Abundance
Know Abundance
Discover Your Unconscious Beliefs
Create the Life You Long to Live
Table of Contents

Foreword (by Francesca M. Ferrentelli, PhD, LPC)

Book I, Chapter 1: An Ancient Story
   • What if you found and followed your bliss?
      How would that world be different than this?
   • Introduction to the Myth of Diacrusos
   • Diacrusos of Pontonde
   • The Story Knows
   • Trinity of Well Being
   • Jung Has the Last Word
   • Exercises to Deepen Your Awareness

Book I, Chapter 2: The Idea of Money
   • What Lies Beneath: the source of money's power over us
   • Getting From Here to Well Being
   • Exercises to Deepen Your Awareness
   • An Empty Fast-Food Restaurant

Book I, Chapter 3: It's Not Your Fault, But It Will Be
   • History and False Consciousness
   • The Dawn of Money
   • As Rich as Croesus: Ancient Greece
   • The Roman Classical Period: To whose profit?
   • The Decline of Feudalism: money as happiness incarnate
   • The Defeat of the Usury Doctrine: time, energy, and money
   • Columbus Sails the Ocean Blue (to find a pot of gold)
   • All for One! One For All! and Every Man for Himself
   • "It's Just Business"
   • Jesus; and the Gospel According to Smith
   • "Society Is Quite Simply Deranged"
   • No Greater Calamity: when enough is never enough
   • Money and War
   • Trinity of the Damned
   • It Can't Be All That Bad, Can It?
   • So, What's Goin' On Here?
   • Light From The Lamp of History
   • Exercises to Deepen Your Awareness
   • Blocked Drains in Animal House                                          

Book I, Chapter 4: You Can Blame Your Family
   • Mother and Ancestry As Sources and Forces
   • The Power to Interfere With Self-Intention
   • What You Think About, You Bring About
     [Whether you know you're thinking about it or not.]
   • Still Waters Run Deep
   • Outcomes
   • You MUST Obey Your Master
   • A Light at the End of the Tunnel (And It's Not a Train Coming Your Way)
   • Sentence Stems
   • Exercises to Deepen Your Awareness
   • A Fierce Green Sea and Giant Steel Spheres
   • The Self
   • Sentence Stems
   • Ignored, Picked On, and Left Alone... Again

Book I, Chapter 5: Bliss:Divinity:Love
   • Bliss
   • Divinity
   • Love
   • Exercises to Deepen Your Awareness
   • The Cave of Enlightenment

Book II, Chapter 6: I Cope, Therefore I Am
   • Well Being vs. Unhappiness
   • What's My Strategy?
   • Feel-Good Now Strategies
   • Get-Numb Strategies
   • Feel-Good Later Strategies
   • Feel-Good Never Strategy
   • One Natives' Path to Well Being
   • Exercises to Deepen Your Awareness
   • An Insidious Idol

Book II, Chapter 7: Prisoners of Desire
   • Attained Desire and Money's Power
   • The Pain of Change
   • Defining Abundance
   • New Rituals: the need for supportive practices
   • A Path to Well Being
   • Supportive Practices
   • Defeating Your Coping Strategy(ies)
         Penny Foolish and Pound Wise
         Switch On/Switch Off
   • Transformation
   • Inner Work: the Self Knows
   • Exercises to Deepen Your Awareness
   • Wings of Desire

Book II, Chapter 8: The Spiritual Dimension of Money
   • They have cast down the idols,
        but they will never cast down
        the coins that we shall put in their place
   • You'll See It When You Believe It
   • Giving, Wealth, Poverty, Addiction
   • Unconscious Truth and Consequences
   • We Decide What Money Is
   • Enough Is Enough
   • Unconscious Beliefs Will-Out
   • Abundance
   • A Feeling of Loss
   • Portal to Source
   • A New Meaning
   • Exercises to Deepen Your Awareness
   • The Blood Trail and the Dragon

Book III, Chapter 9: What Everyone Should Know About Money
[But Was Never Taught]

   • Time Value of Money (present and future value)
   • The Power of Compounding
   • Cash Flow Concepts
   • Mortgages
   • a House Is One of the Worst Investments You Can Make
   • a Burger & a Lattι or a Million bucks?
   • Daddy, You Don't Have to Pay for It; Just Use Your Card
   • Burn Your Money: Lease a Car
   • Squandering Wealth (with nearly a clue): a Tale of Two Couples
   • You Don't Have to Be an Engineer or a Lawyer to Retire Well-Off
   • Epilogue: It's Not What You Say

APPENDIX A: INFLOW OUTFLOW WORKSHEETS
APPENDIX B: SUGGESTED READINGS
APPENDIX C: DESCRIPTION AND PRONUNCIATION OF GREEK NAMES AND TERMS
APPENDIX D: PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL — UPDATED AND BIBLICAL VERSIONS
APPENDIX E: PENNIES PER SERVING RECIPES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Glossary of Terms





End Table of Contents; © Paul L. Gubany, 2009