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Unmasking God: Peeling Away the Masks of the Myth to Reveal the Absolute
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ISBN13: 9798196042201
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Unmasking God takes the reader through a journey not only into the history of religion and mankind, but into the psychological and existential evolution of humanity itself. The book explores how humanity arrived at its earliest rudimentary concepts of the divine: first through the uncertainties surrounding death and later as a necessary mechanism to cope psychologically with the dangers, unpredictability, and helplessness imposed by nature and existence.
It is a walk through the primitive mindset of our early ancestors and how that mindset gradually evolved into increasingly sophisticated belief systems that became deeply intertwined with morality, authority, social order, fear, obedience, identity, and the human need for meaning.
The book establishes how humanity's inability to contend with the forces of nature became the foundation for bargaining with imagined divine powers hidden within storms, floods, disease, famine, darkness, suffering, and death itself. As human understanding expanded, so too did the complexity of its gods, transforming simple spiritual explanations into elaborate theological systems, where gods were tailored to their specific social, psychological and environmental needs.
At its core, Unmasking God argues that faith functions as a psychological vessel through which the human mind carries hope in order to survive uncertainty and existential fear. The book explores how belief systems emerge not merely from ignorance, but from profound emotional, psychological, and existential necessities. Rather than portraying religion as simple deception, the work presents it as a natural consequence of the human condition itself. It further argues that God as tailored by religious and understood by humans, is a projection of the Self, not an entity without. It also introduces the notion of the God of Humanity, the as the social power that dominates our behavior, our empathetic nature and our refusal to destroy any life without a valid reason. And ultimately, it introduces the Absolute ad the undeniable entity that makes up the totality of existence; a power that whether here on Earth of anywhere in the universe could be proven as the ultimate power.
Throughout its chapters, the book examines the deification of nature and the cosmos. It introduces the concept of the Inner God, the part of the human mind that seeks stability and grants absolute power, credibility and authority to belief, thus allowing individuals to externalize power contained within their imagination. In doing so, the work challenges the reader to reconsider whether humanity discovered God, or psychologically constructed God as a reflection of its deepest fears, desires, limitations, and aspirations.
Moving beyond theology alone, Unmasking God also examines the relationship between belief and power, showing how religious structures became intertwined with political authority, cultural identity, moral systems, and social control. It explores how civilizations used divine authority to legitimize order, obedience, law, conquest, and collective identity, while also giving humanity a framework through which suffering and existence itself could be psychologically endured.
Blending philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, existential reflection, and the study of religion, Unmasking God does not seek to mock faith nor simply dismantle belief, but to peel away the symbolic, psychological, and historical layers surrounding the divine in search of the deeper realities hidden beneath them. It is ultimately an exploration of humanity's search for meaning, permanence, truth, and transcendence, asking whether God exists beyond humanity, or whether the divine has always been humanity's greatest reflection of itself.
The book establishes how humanity's inability to contend with the forces of nature became the foundation for bargaining with imagined divine powers hidden within storms, floods, disease, famine, darkness, suffering, and death itself. As human understanding expanded, so too did the complexity of its gods, transforming simple spiritual explanations into elaborate theological systems, where gods were tailored to their specific social, psychological and environmental needs.
At its core, Unmasking God argues that faith functions as a psychological vessel through which the human mind carries hope in order to survive uncertainty and existential fear. The book explores how belief systems emerge not merely from ignorance, but from profound emotional, psychological, and existential necessities. Rather than portraying religion as simple deception, the work presents it as a natural consequence of the human condition itself. It further argues that God as tailored by religious and understood by humans, is a projection of the Self, not an entity without. It also introduces the notion of the God of Humanity, the as the social power that dominates our behavior, our empathetic nature and our refusal to destroy any life without a valid reason. And ultimately, it introduces the Absolute ad the undeniable entity that makes up the totality of existence; a power that whether here on Earth of anywhere in the universe could be proven as the ultimate power.
Throughout its chapters, the book examines the deification of nature and the cosmos. It introduces the concept of the Inner God, the part of the human mind that seeks stability and grants absolute power, credibility and authority to belief, thus allowing individuals to externalize power contained within their imagination. In doing so, the work challenges the reader to reconsider whether humanity discovered God, or psychologically constructed God as a reflection of its deepest fears, desires, limitations, and aspirations.
Moving beyond theology alone, Unmasking God also examines the relationship between belief and power, showing how religious structures became intertwined with political authority, cultural identity, moral systems, and social control. It explores how civilizations used divine authority to legitimize order, obedience, law, conquest, and collective identity, while also giving humanity a framework through which suffering and existence itself could be psychologically endured.
Blending philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, existential reflection, and the study of religion, Unmasking God does not seek to mock faith nor simply dismantle belief, but to peel away the symbolic, psychological, and historical layers surrounding the divine in search of the deeper realities hidden beneath them. It is ultimately an exploration of humanity's search for meaning, permanence, truth, and transcendence, asking whether God exists beyond humanity, or whether the divine has always been humanity's greatest reflection of itself.
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