"Real courage does not lie in squaring up to the outer world, but in confronting what you
have previously refused to see in yourself. Only then will you see yourself as you really are and be profoundly shaken by it. Only then will you be able to clean up your act and make winning choices."
Reviews
10 stars out of five. Must, must, must read by everyone.
It’s a fascinating book, one of the best I’ve ever read and the language is incredibly lucid because the author has experienced or realized that which he wishes to expound. I read it in one sitting with a smile on my face. When was the last time I read a book, smiling all along as I read it? I can’t think of any.
This book is on par with that of Eckhart Tolle’s “Power of Now” and I am surprised not many know of it. A must read for everyone, even if you don’t understand it, go through it, for when you reach a point in life where everything around you is crumbling, you will think of this book and when you read it again, you will understand everything that the author wishes to convey.
The two keys and the four maps is a system that has the ability to destroy itself which is of utmost importance if one has to die as a caterpillar and take birth as a butterfly. The book shows you the path to dissolve yourself or attain unity consciousness and for that everything that you stand for has to melt into nothingness just as the awareness of the sun’s rays melt the snow, and the flowing water is turned into vapor where it becomes formless and merges with the universe.
The questions that the author asks you to ask yourself are very thought provoking and help you uncover your true self. He puts it very nicely “Myths and folk tales often tell the same story. A knight clad in armor – the ego – rides deep in the dark forest – the unconscious. His task is to vanquish dragons and demons – his guilt, his fears, his conflicts. On setting foot in the castle, he removes his armour and embraces the Sleeping Beauty lying in a glass coffin who instantly wakes up. This scene represents the union with your true nature.”
To put things in perspective a human goes through four phases – kama (sensual), artha (wealth), dharma (righteousness), and sanyasa (enlightenment). This book will be well understood by those who have crossed the Artha phase. The author is aware of this and says “No matter your position in life, economic stability is an invaluable base if you wish to have enough time to learn about yourself.”
It’s a fascinating book, one of the best I’ve ever read and the language is incredibly lucid because the author has experienced or realized that which he wishes to expound. I read it in one sitting with a smile on my face. When was the last time I read a book, smiling all along as I read it? I can’t think of any.
This book is on par with that of Eckhart Tolle’s “Power of Now” and I am surprised not many know of it. A must read for everyone, even if you don’t understand it, go through it, for when you reach a point in life where everything around you is crumbling, you will think of this book and when you read it again, you will understand everything that the author wishes to convey.
The two keys and the four maps is a system that has the ability to destroy itself which is of utmost importance if one has to die as a caterpillar and take birth as a butterfly. The book shows you the path to dissolve yourself or attain unity consciousness and for that everything that you stand for has to melt into nothingness just as the awareness of the sun’s rays melt the snow, and the flowing water is turned into vapor where it becomes formless and merges with the universe.
The questions that the author asks you to ask yourself are very thought provoking and help you uncover your true self. He puts it very nicely “Myths and folk tales often tell the same story. A knight clad in armor – the ego – rides deep in the dark forest – the unconscious. His task is to vanquish dragons and demons – his guilt, his fears, his conflicts. On setting foot in the castle, he removes his armour and embraces the Sleeping Beauty lying in a glass coffin who instantly wakes up. This scene represents the union with your true nature.”
To put things in perspective a human goes through four phases – kama (sensual), artha (wealth), dharma (righteousness), and sanyasa (enlightenment). This book will be well understood by those who have crossed the Artha phase. The author is aware of this and says “No matter your position in life, economic stability is an invaluable base if you wish to have enough time to learn about yourself.”
Vivek Rajan Vivek
Author of A great Sage and A Rascal Named Doku
Author of A great Sage and A Rascal Named Doku
"This book is making a big difference in the way I look at myself, my own behaviors and the world. It provides simple tools and practices that are allowing me to remove the distracting pebbles from my shoe... the small distractions that have been keeping from my utmost desires in life. I am confident with practice, distancing, discernment and disidenitfication and discrimination, I will identify my disruptors and remove them from my path.
Many of the concepts in the book have been told to us by other teachers, but never in this way, or with such clarity. I highly recommend reading this How to Get Out of This World ALIVE and take the practices in hand for your own success!"
Many of the concepts in the book have been told to us by other teachers, but never in this way, or with such clarity. I highly recommend reading this How to Get Out of This World ALIVE and take the practices in hand for your own success!"
Zoe Sexton
Author of Flirtonomics
Author of Flirtonomics
"Very clearly and Systematically -and with such simplicity!- does Mr Forget present a complete and convincing picture of the machinery behind the human psyche. From one who has read many spiritual books this book ranks among the top for it's precise, easy to understand and unique language, pleasantly devoid of spiritual rhetoric.
If you are prone to introspection and really want to understand what is happening within your human experience then this book is indispensable as it takes you step by step through the assumed layers of conditioning then concisely, with the four d's, offers you the tools to free yourself from them. For someone like myself who has stumbled over the same habitual patterns this book is heaven sent. I don't know of anyone who wouldn't benefit from this book, provided you are prepared to examine and dismantle every misleading motivation.
How To Get Out Of This World Alive is a most useful guide to anyone that is honest and courageous enough to examine their life unflinchingly. Buy it, read it and reread it!"
If you are prone to introspection and really want to understand what is happening within your human experience then this book is indispensable as it takes you step by step through the assumed layers of conditioning then concisely, with the four d's, offers you the tools to free yourself from them. For someone like myself who has stumbled over the same habitual patterns this book is heaven sent. I don't know of anyone who wouldn't benefit from this book, provided you are prepared to examine and dismantle every misleading motivation.
How To Get Out Of This World Alive is a most useful guide to anyone that is honest and courageous enough to examine their life unflinchingly. Buy it, read it and reread it!"
MP
Amazon Reader
Amazon Reader
"This book is for those who are intent on psychological, psychic and spiritual evolution. It's not for the faint-hearted. There are it seems very few people in the world who have made the journey to awakening and come back to help mankind. Alain Forget, I believe, is one of those teachers. His advice is practical, no-nonsense and succinct.
Engaging in the work as laid out in `How to Get out of this World Alive' I have realised things about myself (and not all of it's nice!). I've touched a deep peace in meditation, or 'sitting in silence' as Alain calls it. I have faced fears and have learned to use my dreams as a window onto the unconscious. I can more often observe the multiple facets of my ego and the stream of my thoughts and to dis-identify with it. If you loved Eckhart Tolle's 'The Power of Now' or Aldous Huxley's 'The Perennial Philosophy' or had a yearning to understand how to apply Zen or Chan Buddhism, then I urge you to read this book. It's a spiritual classic."
Engaging in the work as laid out in `How to Get out of this World Alive' I have realised things about myself (and not all of it's nice!). I've touched a deep peace in meditation, or 'sitting in silence' as Alain calls it. I have faced fears and have learned to use my dreams as a window onto the unconscious. I can more often observe the multiple facets of my ego and the stream of my thoughts and to dis-identify with it. If you loved Eckhart Tolle's 'The Power of Now' or Aldous Huxley's 'The Perennial Philosophy' or had a yearning to understand how to apply Zen or Chan Buddhism, then I urge you to read this book. It's a spiritual classic."
Miss Eyles
Amazon UK Reader
Amazon UK Reader
"This is by far, the most profound book I have ever read on the subject of spirituality/self-discovery.
It explains very basic, but yet very important aspects of our conditioning and how our mind/ego function and how to change your life by using quite simple methods.
This book is very well written and more importantly is very easy to understand. It is written in very simple, straight to the point language without any complicated jargons.
It gave me a great insight of how i function and I think it is a great guide for the self-discovery that can change ones's life. I found it very fascinating to observe aspects of myself i never knew existed.
I have read it twice and still coming back to read it again and again.
This is just an AMAZING book and i would highly recommend it."
It explains very basic, but yet very important aspects of our conditioning and how our mind/ego function and how to change your life by using quite simple methods.
This book is very well written and more importantly is very easy to understand. It is written in very simple, straight to the point language without any complicated jargons.
It gave me a great insight of how i function and I think it is a great guide for the self-discovery that can change ones's life. I found it very fascinating to observe aspects of myself i never knew existed.
I have read it twice and still coming back to read it again and again.
This is just an AMAZING book and i would highly recommend it."
Lana
Amazon UK Reader
Amazon UK Reader
