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Awaken the Puppet Master: Transcending the Strings of Attachment and Ignorance is a profound guide to inner liberation-a bridge between timeless wisdom and modern psychology. In this powerful synthesis, Greg Derbedrossian, Parapsychologist & ScL Clinical Psychology, invites readers to recognize the fundamental illusion at the heart of human suffering: our mistaken identification with the puppet-the body, mind, and emotions-while forgetting the true Self, the puppet master behind the stage of life. Drawing upon the metaphysics of Advaita Vedanta, Buddhist psychology, and apophatic mysticism, this book reveals how ignorance (avidya) binds consciousness to illusion through the strings of attachment, fear, and desire. Derbedrossian guides the reader through a practical and contemplative journey using the via negativa (the negative way)-a method of freedom through negation and unlearning. Rather than trying to ""fix the puppet"" through endless self-improvement, the reader learns to dissolve mistaken identities by realizing, ""I am not this thought, not this emotion, not this body."" Each chapter begins with clear definitions, followed by explanations, real-life examples, and illuminating analogies-such as the radio and signal, where the radio (the body-mind) can never alter the signal (pure consciousness). Through this lens, all spiritual and psychological growth becomes the act of remembering who we truly are-the unchanging witness beyond the play of life. Inside you will discover: How the puppet (ego-self) forms through conditioning, fear, and social identification The nature of attachment and how it becomes the invisible string of suffering Why thought cannot free itself from its own prison (""You can't think your way out of thinking"") The practice of Metaphysical Recollection-a return to inner stillness and presence The experience of transcendence to exist in the world as the puppet master rather than the puppet Derbedrossian merges clinical insight with ancient spiritual understanding, showing how psychological contraction and spiritual expansion are part of one continuum. When consciousness identifies with thought, emotion, or image, it contracts into the puppet; when it withdraws from these illusions, it expands back into its natural state of freedom. The transformation is not an escape from life, but a reawakening within it-seeing the stage, the strings, and the unseen hand that animates it all. By the end of this book, readers will understand that the voices in the mind-the fears, desires, and judgments-are simply echoes of the biological life seeking survival. Yet the true calling of the human heart is not survival, but remembrance. What we seek is not physical expansion, but the rediscovery of our eternal, non-material essence-the still awareness behind every thought, emotion, and breath. Awaken the Puppet Master is both a mirror and a map-a contemplative manual for those ready to cut the strings of ignorance, transcend the thinking prison, and awaken as the unbound consciousness they have always been.

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