Reading this book I found myself thinking many times thinking about Ken Wilber’s books. Like Wilber, Garoli’s unique work is insightful, complex, inspiring and embedding Eastern and Western philosophy. Like Wilber’s work, this book is taking you to an interesting journey of self-exploration that you know where it starts and you have no idea where it will end.
This book, at least for me, was something that should be consumed in small pieces to get the most out of it. I read sentences such as “While your Persona lies strong, your deductive capabilities are too biased and cannot function as a reliable source of observation” and need to put the book aside for a little while and digest what I just read. If I compare it to food, this is by no means a light snack or a quick lunch, but more of a long and gratifying French-style dinner.
Garoli presents in this book an holistic approach based on physics, philosophy, neurobiology and physiology uncovering the ‘glitch’ in our nervous system and providing a detailed road map to get ourselves better and get rid of these flaws.
If you’re willing to dig deeper into yourself and explore the roots of your own persona, break down familiar patterns and find ways it seems we already lost to natural well being, this book is for you. It doesn’t have in it the secret for happy life or some vague promise to fix all your problems in 12 simple steps, but it does include an invitation to a unique journey inside your own mind and body that can result in beneficial self-discoveries.
Last but not least, this book is printed on FSC-certified paper!
Raz, EcoLibris (link to review)
*****
Have you ever wondered why your life has followed a particular path? Perhaps life has thrown some ‘curve balls’ your way and you are not where you thought/hoped you would be twenty years ago. Did your dreams change? Did your career goals change? Perhaps your present state of being is created some health issues. Perhaps you are feeling overly tired for no apparent reason. Perhaps you have found yourself in an unsatisfactory situation and you lack the motivation to overcome this situation or to improve your sense of well-being. This is what is termed the “evolutionary glitch”. It is what Dr. Garoli defines as the persona, the relatively unknown and slightly misunderstood superimposed identity deep within an individual’s brain.
In his book, The Evolutionary Glitch, Dr. Garoli challenges each of us to study the personae and to identify which persona is applicable to our personal situation. He challenges us to be complete honest in our assessment so that we can challenge this persona, which has taken over our lives. Throughout his book, Dr. Garoli assures us that identifying and confronting our persona will lead us to a better life, a healthier, more successful and more meaningful life.
In spite of the fact that Dr. Garoli’s book, The Evolutionary Glitch, is founded in years of academic and clinical research, the book is both concise in its presentation of information and understandable to the non-science minded reader.
Emily-Jane Hills Orford, Allbooks Reviews
*****
The Evolutionary Glitch provides readers with a self-challenge that will change their perception of themselves and their world. Garoli dives into new inspiring self-improvement methods that will empower and motivate readers to succeed in all aspects of their lives. Using the tools in this book will encourage a sense of self-reliance.
author of Awakening Consciousness
author of Please Explain Anxiety to Me
First of all, anytime you choose to delve into brain functions you are in for some deep study and thought. It is no different with Albert Garoli’s “The Evolutionary Glitch” because he takes us deep within neurobiology and quantum physics. Combine that with ancient wisdom and modern psychology and you get a thorough understanding that our emotional, mental and physical health is driven by social conditioning and learned experiences.
There is so much more to this book! Garoli provides a developmental program and understanding that is time-sensitive, cutting-edge, and a forerunner in the field of neuropsychology. Our society is finally grasping the fact that our behaviors, actions, and thoughts are driven by our internal conflicts. Albert Garoli, in “The Evolutionary Glitch” gives us the insight needed so we can make the changes within ourselves and create our own world that is problem-free.
Irene Watson, Reader Views
****
Through fifteen years of proof-thirsty work, Albert Garoli, author of “The Evolutionary Glitch”, brings into focus an ancient ‘glitch’ in the common psyche, named the persona.
Assembled out of our cultural experiences and acting like a virus, this persona infects our emotional, mental and physical health. It isolates us from our natural way and from each other, sabotaging fulfillment.
Fusing modern neurobiology, quantum physics and ancient wisdom, the author provides exercises to break down these ingrained destructive neural pathways, so that we may once again be connected to our essential nature.
With direct application to Psychology, Vitality, Sustainability and Community, this manual for self-discovery provides a sound platform for self-challenge and a daring opportunity for us rise above the root of our problems.
Rowan Gorringe, Nutritionist & Herbalist
****
Once in awhile, a book comes along that changes everything. The Evolutionary Glitch was that book for me. This book gave me a whole new way of looking at the world, myself, and the people around me. Reading its pages was like removing the blinders from my eyes for the first time, that I didn’t even realise were there.
Written in a user-friendly, easy-to-understand way, this book has become my user manual for life. Since reading The Evolutionary Glitch, I see the world by its terms. I am armed with the knowledge about Personas; this helps me when I interact with people because I recognise the Persona in them, as well as the Persona in myself. I have become acutely aware of the signs in my life, and am getting better all the time at following them.
The Evolutionary Glitch doesn’t only provide life-changing information, it actually gives step-by-step exercises and tools to use to change destructive habits, and get back on track with your true life goals. The Evolutionary Glitch is a book that I come back to time and time again, and I always get something new and useful out of it. Albert Garoli has given the world a great gift with this book, and how different the world would be if everyone could read it!
This book has become an essential tool not only for myself and my family but also for my long list of clients. As a personal coach, therapist and councilor, I found that this book helped me become a better person and thus a better help to those who come to me for advice. In addition, I was able to use some of the unique strategies and exercises with my patients and have had some excellent results. I recommend this book to anyone, whether for personal use or to help others.
Andrea Gottlieb, PhD, Therapist and Councilor
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Albert Garoli brings a new concept his insightful look into man’s love affair with his Ego. Garoli’s “persona” looms over each chapter bringing pitfalls and a hypothesis of The Evolutionary Glitch which remains the donning of humanity’s proverbial “rose-colored glasses” and the failure to realize he can choose to remove them at any moment. Garoli’s process of “clearing the conscious awareness of its superimpositions” works well to acknowledge and confront man’s “evolutionary malfunction.”
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