The Book
  and
the Alchemy of Being describes
in detail the new "Violence Integrative Prevention and Restoration
(PAR) Model." The current outline of the book is provided below.
Foreword
Introduction
Purpose of the “Violence Integrative Prevention and Restoration
(PAR) Model”. Models are not reality: they are a description of the
reality. The model and your view of the world. The dilemma of 21st
century technology and 13th century thinking. Why the model may not
be right for some people. Settings in which the model can work effectively.
How the model can be misused. Appreciating those who theorize about
violence and those who have lived with it.
Part 1 — Violence
and Being in the World
Chapter 1
An epidemic of harm
The stunning results at a level 5 (maximum security) prison. Violence in the 20th century. The state of the world. The war on terror and the war on children. Acclimation. Little horrors. The glorification of savagery. A day in the media. Reprise:”Our natural condition.”
Chapter 2
Thought and reality
What is “real?” The universal field, discriminator, and construct. Selection, interpretation, association. Construct overlays. Describing reality to ourselves. Describing reality to others. The language of violence. The need for change.
Chapter 3
The alchemy of being
The three basic questions: “Who am I?”, “What is the nature of the world?”, and “What’s my place in that world?” Being, doing, and having. Human beings as processes, not “things.” Are we naturally violent? Reaction to threats. What it is to be a human being. Cooperation and belonging.
Chapter 4
Power, control, and the seduction of violence
The need for power, the illusion of power. The “three brains.” Becker and the need for meaning and value. Narcissism and grandiosity. Attachment. Healthy and unhealthy power and control. Getting everyone else to behave. Grossman, Stern, Athens, Pollack, and others on war, terrorism, manhood, and existential self-management. What’s wrong with those terrorists?
Chapter 5
The punitive model: 10,000 years of sorrow and suffering
Characteristics of the punitive model. Punitive model objectives. Capital punishment - what the data shows. The paternal vs the collaborative view of the world. Evil and the nature of human beings. Fear of change translated into the nightmare of violence.
Part 2 — Rethinking Violence
Chapter 6
A new reality: The PAR Model
The "Violence Integrative Prevention and Restoration (PAR) Model." Objectives of the model. The public health
foundation. The value is in its efficacy. Speculation vs "evidence based." Initial evidence – India/Pakistan border, schools, a level 5 (maximum security) prison.
Chapter 7
What is violence?
Power and control revisited. An unhealthy strategy to get power and control. A definition in two parts. Different from “injurious.” Types of violence including physical, mental, emotional, environmental, and spiritual. Examples.
Chapter 8
The faces of fear: The beast that feeds on itself
Awe and dread. Becker and the denial of death. Fear, ignorance, and superstition. Transference. Scapegoating. Fear outpictured. The lessons of neuroscience: What happens in the brain.
Chapter 9
Harming things, not people: The objectification/action process
The five steps to an act of violence. Object labeling. Language
and belonging. "Us" and "them." Objectification/action examples.
Interrupting the sequence.
Chapter 10
In harm’s way: The three degrees of severity
First degree – nonmaterial harm. Second degree – material harm that is not disabling or lethal. Third degree – material harm that is disabling or lethal. A lower degree as a precursor for higher degrees. Domestic violence, school shootings, terrorism, other examples.
Chapter 11
Dividing up the territory: The “five bodies”
Physical. Emotional. Mental. Environmental.
Spiritual. Developmental manifestations from physical to spiritual.
Authentic and injured bodies. Trauma, toxicity, infection. Who's in charge here? – existential self-management..
Chapter 12
Who are you now: The developmental stages
Jean Clarke’s descriptions. Brain development. Brain patterning and acts of violence. Love, emotional intelligence, and social intelligence. The diagnostic aspects of the model are the same for all stages. The application of response protocols differ with each developmental stage. What is “developmentally appropriate?”
Chapter 13
Resiliency: Building the violence immune system
The notion of resiliency. Depth and range.
Risk factors. Revealing the violence – risk/resiliency mapping. Building the immune system. Changing the universe we think we inhabit.
Chapter 14
Portrait of a malignancy
Vectors of transmission. Addiction. Infectiousness.
Diet – physical, emotional, mental, environmental, and spiritual. The field of vision, construct, and construct horizon.
Part 3 — Taking It To the Streets
Chapter 15
Neuroscience and revealing the self
Neuroscience and freedom from violence. Existential identity and self management.
Self-identity from each of the five bodies. Transcendence and enfoldment.
Observing the self. Living the heroic life. Identifying healthy and
unhealthy power and control. Self-reorganization of the brain..
Chapter 16
An integrated view: Mapping the territory
Two life paths. Mapping a life, mapping
a moment. Looking for the truth. Watching the transactions. Interrupting
the actualization process. Eliminating or reducing the risk factors.
The powerlessness threshold. The trauma/recovery vector. Response
opportunities.
Chapter 17
Tipping over the world
Power frames. Power swapping. Disrupter, reinforcer, interrupter, and pairing thought clusters. Structural framing. Interventions. Traps. The movement toward life. The unrecognized genius in each person. My construct is not yours, yours is not mine. Building prevention and response strategies.
Chapter 18
Taking It to the Streets
A look at the results when the model is applied. Applications for the model – for individuals as well as in community, educational, criminal/justice, diplomatic, mental health, military, medical, risk management, corporate/human resources, and other settings. The next steps.
Appendix
Glossary. Resources. Notes. Bibliography
Index
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