Thinking About & Discussing 
                      "The Other Deeper You"

If you believe in things deeper inside you, they are almost always things about you--- your thoughts, your wishes, your feelings and emotions, your needs, your forgotten memories, your conflicts, your problems. your pathology, your unconscious impulses, you you you! 

Can you even consider the mere possibility, just suppose, that there can be a whole other world inside, and in this world is a whole other deeper you - not more about you. A whole other deeper you ,

In this new book (The Other Deeper You) you will be introduced to the idea of an other deeper you. This can be revolutionary, and ridiculous. 

For the visionary, the scholar, the academic, and the serious reader, this book offers something revolutionary, and ridiculous, but the book goes further, much further, by giving you the gift of a step-by-step guide for actually coming face-to-face with the other deeper you! 

Let's hear your thoughts and more about your adventures after you have read this powerful new book. This web page can be an opportunity to discuss and explore the possibilities - so send your comments to:  CLICK HERE

Dr. Al Mahrer & Howard Gontovnick 


TABLE OF CONTENTS - THE OTHER DEEPER YOU click


Quotations from "The Other Deeper You"


On the doorway....

"This doorway leads to a whole new world, an alien other world. It is a world that is far deeper than the world of your personal insides, far different from the world of your deeper needs and drives, far deeper than the inner world of what you are unconscious of about you. This other world has little or nothing to do with what more there is to you, of what you are like, but of which you are unconscious. This is the whole other world of the whole other you. It contains the qualities and characteristics, the possibilities and the potentiali­ties of a whole other you." P.45 

A problem with therapy today....

In contrast, it seems that most theories and most therapies make at least three errors that prevent them from entering the other ­world of the deeper insides when the feeling is bad. One is that most theories and therapies have their eye on the bad feeling, and thereby ­de-emphasize the importance of the scene of bad feeling. Most the­ories and therapies, therefore, rarely discover the actual moment of peak awful feeling. Second, most theories and therapies focus on identifying the nature or content of the bad feeling, rather than paying enough attention to the scene or moment of awful feeling. They focus on identifying it as depression or anxiety or anger or ­some other kind or type of bad feeling, lifted out from the encom­passing scene or moment of bad feeling. Finally, most theories and therapies side with the bad feeling by trying to 'do something about ­the bad feeling, something like understanding its causes, relating it to some personality dimension, strengthening its defenses against ­whatever is deeper, or doing what therapies do to treat the feeling. The net result is that most theories and therapies fail to enter into the world of the deeper insides. P.202




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A question from Howard Gontovnick to Dr. Alvin Mahrer:

How is your book (The Other Deeper You) signiifcnat to your overall work?

Reply from Dr. Al Mahrer:

The book is significant in at least 2 ways:  

(1)  The idea of a whole other deeper world,  the idea of a whole other deeper you --- these ideas seem a little  risky, devilish, pushy, mischievous,  far out,  whimsical,  and maybe nudging the field toward a wholesale revolution. So I like picturing such ideas.

(2) I can better have wild wonderful experiential sessions when I picture a whole new inner deeper world and a whole new, deeper, other you!

So there!


August 24, 2007.

Howard Gontonvick:

Al, why is this so-called "other deeper you" so important when it comes becoming the person you can become?  

Al Mahrer:

I do believe there is a passion in me to find and know the person I truly can become --- the other deeper you. What about you?

A quotation from "The Other Deeper You"

"Imagine a world, though, in which you are no longer you. Nor are you in your ordinary state of consciousness and self-consciousness. You have entered a different state, an extraordinary state, a state beyond your ordinary state of consciousness and self-consciousness.... This is a world of possibilities, of the soup of what can become a whole different you, a radical, qualitative, transformational new you." P.112


MORE TO COME...........................








TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

A Preview of the Main Points So You Can See If This Volume
Is for You

(1) Is It Important for You to Discover What Is Deep Inside?

(2) What Is Meant By 'Something Deep Inside'?

(3) What Are Some Dilemmas in Trying to Discover 
     What Is 'Deeper Inside'?

(4) How Can You Get Some Idea of What Is Deep Inside?

(5) The Breakthrough Problem: How Can You Discover 
      the Other Deeper You in the Other Deeper World?

(6) The Experiential Solution: You Can Discover the 
     Other Deeper You in the Other Deeper World by 
     Entering through the Moment of Peak Feeling