The Ego Death Is Not Woo-Woo

We need to have a sense of evolving and improving, he says. There's a lot of woo-woo in psychoanalysis but the ego death is not Woo-woo. These books absolutely can be life-saving for whatever you're going through. Nothing can make difficult times suddenly easy or non-existent overnight. But the breeding the great books can most certainly help give us resources that we develop over time to better weather the storm. To help us forge on. It's not about being happy. It's about reaching a stage of contentment. This is a separate issue from happiness.