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The 21st Century Self: Belief, Illusion, and the Machinery of Meaning Kindle Edition

by Robert Saltzman PhD (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
5.0 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

No method. No mercy. Just this.

What if the self you've been tending-defending, improving, believing in-was never really there? In these unsparing but lucid essays, psychologist and philosopher Robert Saltzman examines the machinery of meaning in an age of performative presence and synthetic minds. With dry wit and a refusal to console, he exposes our hunger for stories, our need for coherence, and the illusions that pass for identity in the 21st century. What remains is not despair, but the end of waiting for the plot to redeem itself.

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    222 pages
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    Clear Mind Press
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    July 15, 2025
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0FH5R2DMM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clear Mind Press
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 15, 2025
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5.9 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 222 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0645888799
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  • Best Sellers Rank: #573,995 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
  • Customer Reviews:
    5.0 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

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Robert Saltzman

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In the midst of his career as an artist and photographer, Robert Saltzman experienced a sudden and profound awakening—a fresh vision into the actual nature of “myself.” That abrupt change in point of view, along with a subsequent long illness and slow recovery, changed the course of his life. He left the art world, obtained a doctorate in Depth Psychology, and began his practice of psychotherapy, a work he describes as "days in a small room, face to face with pain and suffering."

As an adjunct to his therapy practice, Robert established a website, www-dr-robert.com that featured his replies to questions about psychology, consciousness, and ordinary problems of living such as relationships, personality disorders, sexuality, mental illness, death and dying, etc. That site became the most popular ask the psychologist webpage on the internet, and has welcomed over four million visitors.

In 2012, Robert moved his question and answer work to a Facebook page where it continues to this day. The Ten Thousand Things is a book of words and images about awakening, consciousness, philosophy, and spirituality. Forty chapters--each beginning with a photograph--based upon Robert’s replies to questions posed to him on Facebook and in private correspondence.

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5 out of 5 stars
8 global ratings

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  • K Dennison
    5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning, Poetic, and Beautiful.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2025
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    This book is a must for anyone on the so-called spiritual journey. It's the third book of Dr. Saltzman's I've read. I recommend you start with The Ten Thousand Things, then read Depending on No Thing, then this one. You may or may not want to then read Understanding Claude. If you're interested in consciousness, I recommend you do.

    Dr. Saltzman has a way with words you don't find often. He relentlessly deconstructs, questions, and drives toward a singular suggestion: is there really something to seek? And, from a slightly different angle: is there really a someone there to do the seeking?

    Dr. Saltzman pulls no punches, but he doesn't exactly let you fall either. He prescribes nothing, which allows you to gently land right here, right now, as a human being requiring no prescription. I'd put his work on the same shelf as The Tao and anything J. Krishnamurti, books I find simple, stunning in their lines of inquiry, quieting, and challenging. Dr. Saltzman's a gem. I can't recommend his work enough. It's truly changed how I live and see.
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  • dmatt and family
    5.0 out of 5 stars The self is not what most people think it is
    Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2025
    Format: Paperback
    What is the central point of this book?
    According to Saltzman it is this:

    The self you take as bedrock is not a thing but a recursive event. What arises in experience—sensation, thought, memory—is immediately claimed as “mine.” That claim then generates the sense of a claimer, a subject. The “I” is nothing but that loop.

    AI matters because it shows this mechanism without the human consolations. It speaks fluently, answers with authority, and yet there is no one there. That lack of anyone “behind the voice” makes visible what has always been the case with human selves: presence mistaken for substance, claim mistaken for claimant.

    If you retain only one idea from the book, it is this: the self is not an entity you must liberate, improve, or protect. It is a performance of claiming, sustained only by repetition.
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  • Andrew Holt
    5.0 out of 5 stars Profound
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2025
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    I have read Roberts other books, in my this is his magnum opus. As usual he pulls no punches and exposed the delusions we drift along with. He shows how AI throws doubt on many of our cherished beliefs. If an AI simulates so well that you can't identify the difference maybe the self presented by humans is no more real ?
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Deep ideas worth absorbing.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 28, 2025
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    Deep ideas worth absorbing. Clears up and away spiritual BS
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