Robert Spencer Knotts is the author of 24 previous published books, most of these for young readers and written under the name Bob Knotts or a pseudonym. He also has written five plays, numerous poems, fables, blogs, lyrics and other literary works. In addition, Knotts is a lifelong musician who has composed more than 100 compositions including "A Symphony of Some Humanity - Symphony #1 for Strings and Choir" and "All, In Joyful Song - A Carol In Three Movements." In 2005, he founded the 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, the Humanity Project, and still serves as the group's president and primary program creator. Based in South Florida, the Humanity Project instills greater respect for goodness and inherent value of humanity. The group's motto is: "Equality For Each, Respect For All." ( www.thehumanityproject.com ) Knotts is among fewer than 50,000 Americans whose biography is included in the Marquis "Who's Who In America" and "Who's Who in the World," the standard biographical references. He has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. ( www.rsknotts.com )

Preface Writing for a different reader. A broad overview of Beyond Me.
Chapter 1: Me, Until I'm More A search for individual identity. Profound selfobsession, profound self-doubt. Identity Failure introduced, an unrecognized human
illness. Identity poses introduced. The new philosophy of Rational Faith offers one cure for Identity Failure. Identity Failure in bullet points.
Chapter 2: Untying The Knotts An author's experience steeped in the self. Learning to explore within. "Why Method." Dialogue, me with me. Testing the observations. A powerful introspection: "intrasentience."
Chapter 3: The Microscopic Me Websites of the mind. Nexes introduced, five categories of emotional strength. Vericepts introduced, "truth concepts." Quancepts
introduced, particles of mind. Small things making big things within the mind as elsewhere in nature.
Chapter 4: Fundamentally, Me Psychogravity introduced, a gravity of the mind. Connection with quancepts, vericepts, nexes. Emotions through numerical values. Tigertails introduced, the refusal to let go of pain. Most Immediate Emotional Necessity. A Fundamental Law of Mind. Will to live.
Chapter 5: Deeply Determined Deepwanting introduced, a profound motivator. The difference between what we say we want and what we truly want. Dominance of the necessary. The 1 - 1,000 scale of emotional strength. The Free Will Paradox.
Chapter 6: To Me Or Not To Me Identity Failure and the Fundamental Law of Mind. Identity Failure defined in detail. Self-confusion. Identity Failure as "normal."
Chapter 7: A Fitting Experience The Grand Trio introduced. Identity poses explained. Irrational fixed identities based on realities. Origin of identity poses.
Pose-weakeners and pose-strengtheners introduced, making psychological compromises. Identity Failure as a cause of repressed emotions
Chapter 8: All Too Normal Tick-tock, Identity Failure explained through a unique minute by minute drama and the use of numerical values.
Chapter 9: The Why Within You Identity Failure in others, observed and analyzed. Voices of the mind as Identity Failure. Identity Failure in you: a test. Will to die. The Fundamental Question, introduced. A thought experiment: the mud hut and you. Questions for you.

Chapter 10: A World Of Me Identity Failure as a new lens to understand our world. The lust for money and lust for power. Hitler and history's despots. Of terrorists, gangsters and thrill killers. Of slavery and racism. Dr. King and the "drum major instinct." Of patriotism, war and soldiers. Of sexism, abuse, addiction and self-harm. The new distractions.
Chapter 11: The Other Half Isolation and Identity Failure. Romance and romanticism, holdovers from the past. Being "unforgettable." Romance as addiction. Of sex and Identity Failure. Of gender roles and sexual identities. Extra
challenges for the LGBTQ community. The romantic view of life. Primary emotions. Finding the innate love within each individual. The desire to be.

Chapter 12: A Bitter Pill The mindbody. Dr. John E. Sarno's great insights. Repressed Emotion Transfer introduced. The physical response to rage. Illness as the mind's misguided effort to help the individual.
Chapter 13: Physics Of The Mind Insights from within. Psychophysics 101. The details explained, combining the psychological concepts of Beyond Me into a unified theory. Chain of consciousness explored in detail. A logic of the mind. Of conditioning, coincidence and chance. A summary. An equation of human value.

PreScript: Rational Faith explained, its system and tenets. Seven articles of Rational Faith.

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