From societal and cultural decline to deepening political divisions, looming economic and financial collapse to environmental catastrophes, scientific and religious dogmatism to the obesity and mental health epidemics, the two decades punctuated by 9/11, the financial crisis, and Covid task humanity to SEEK self-evident experiential knowledge of what in hell is with us—in the one place the hard Truth can be found: Hell itself. Hard Truth is what this book offers, dear reader. Part autobiography, part metaphysical exposé, all practical wisdom, this guidebook will help you SEEK answers for yourself, via your Self, with the benefit of hindsight and the Grace of being lost and found in the dungeons undermining humanity. 

Let us delve together as we unearth four traps luring us with seductive notions of awakening, each one as insidious as the next. Falling for their charms, we fall more asleep, entangled in the dark, even as we believe ourselves to be awake in the Light. Transhumanist AI promises a rebirth as Human 2.0. Taking the red pill allegedly lets us exit The Matrix of conspiracy. Wokeness convinces us of our absolute moral high ground in the culture wars. While the New Age affirms that we are not only awake, but gods already! Far from salvation or a great awakening, these case studies in the human condition(ed) keep us suffering the machinations of psychological hell. To free ourselves, we must SEEK the causes of our fall, enslavement, and resistance to the ultimate methodology to Truly awaken in Light of…