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THE TEN WORLDS: The New Psychology of Happiness (HCI)

Why is it so hard to achieve happiness that endures? More than twenty years in the making, The Ten Worlds provides a definitive answer to this question by arguing that we’re all clinging to nine basic beliefs about how to achieve happiness that are wrong. Termed the core delusions, these nine basic beliefs give rise to nine different life-conditions—nine worlds—through which we all continuously cycle. But there also exists a way to a happiness that does endure, the kind of happiness found in the tenth world, the world of Enlightenment. Founded neither in mysticism nor the supernatural, the world of Enlightenment is discussed for the first time as a psychological state created by a belief in a core truth, one that if we fully embrace, will at last enable us to achieve the kind of happiness we all want.