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What if everything long believed about the self was only a comforting illusion? This book invites the listener on a journey across philosophy, science, literature, and lived experience to explore a radical question: What if the self is not a fixed essence, but a universe in continual creation? Drawing on insights from neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and spiritual traditions, this book unravels the persistent myths of uniqueness, permanence, and control—offering in their place a vision of identity as a dynamic process shaped by memory, relation, and the quiet labor of becoming.

In a world flooded with simplified “guides to Daoism,” this book dares to think. Flowing with the Dao is not another interpretation of Laozi’s verses—it is a living conversation between East and West, between the silent wisdom of the Dao and the analytical rigor of Western philosophy. Here the listener discovers how the Dao can illuminate existentialism, soften Stoicism, balance science with wonder, and transform ethical thought without resorting to mysticism. Each chapter unfolds as a bridge: between intuition and intellect, serenity and action, mystery and method.

Justice today often disguises punishment as fairness, yet leaves both victims and offenders trapped in cycles of pain. This book argues for a radical rethinking: true justice is not about retribution, but about understanding why crimes happen and preventing them from happening again. Through philosophical reflection, psychological insight, and critical analysis of modern courts and prisons, Boris Kriger exposes the failures of the current system and sketch the contours of a new one—justice that heals instead of harms, supports instead of condemns, and restores trust by restoring people.

This book offers a comprehensive philosophical exploration of happiness grounded in the ancient clarity of Epicurus and expanded by the insights of Stoicism, Christian spirituality, and modern psychology. Rather than treating Epicureanism as a historical curiosity, it presents it as a living framework capable of addressing the anxieties of contemporary life—fear, restlessness, overstimulation, and the quiet erosion of meaning.

What should one do with faith when God has ceased to be living and survives only as an idea? What remains for a person when prayer no longer addresses anyone, when the Church feels like an institution, and inner seeking becomes nothing more than emptiness masquerading as depth?

In a world overflowing with information yet starved for clarity, the greatest advantage belongs to those who can think beyond linear logic. True decisions are made not only with analysis, but with the deeper intelligence that forms in the quiet space before thought — intuition. The Intuitive Logic in Business reveals how these two faculties, often seen as opposites, actually form a single, powerful cognitive movement.

This book undertakes a multidisciplinary inquiry into the nature, origins, and operations of evil as a metaphysical, structural, and psychological phenomenon. Departing from traditional moral frameworks that reduce evil to individual acts of cruelty or moral failure, the text situates evil as an ontological force—at times preceding being, at other times emerging from systems, language, desire, and the very architecture of order.

Dealing with Manipulators is a bold and rigorous exploration of how manipulation works—psychologically, socially, and ethically—and how to break free from its grip without becoming hard or cynical. What makes this book singular is its insistence that recognition is not enough. To become immune to manipulation is not simply to learn red flags or memorize phrases. It is to understand, deeply and without sentimentality, how the manipulator sees the world. Only then can their hold be broken—not through resistance alone, but through lucidity.

This is a book about happiness. But not the kind that flickers briefly when something goes right, nor the kind sold through slogans, lifestyles, or steps to success. It is about something older, quieter, and more demanding: the pursuit of a life that feels right—not perfect, not easy, but worth living from the inside. Happiness, as it is meant here, is not a mood. It is not made of pleasure alone. It is the sense, however fragile, that one’s life has direction, meaning, and connection. That the self is not drifting. That even in the midst of difficulty, something essential holds.

This audiobook explores metaphor not as an ornament of language but as the fundamental mechanism of human cognition. It argues that every act of understanding—scientific, poetic, or everyday—is rooted in the transfer of structure from one experiential domain to another. Metaphor is presented as the mind’s first technology, a generative tool through which complexity is compressed into meaningful form. Far from being a deviation from literal speech, it is shown to be the very fabric of thought itself, underlying logic, mathematics, and the formation of conceptual categories.

Half a century after Thomas Nagel asked what it is like to be a bat, humanity is on the verge of decoding thought, simulating empathy, and dissolving the last privacy of the mind. Yet the closer we come to perfect transparency, the less we understand what it means to feel. Beyond Objectivity is Boris Kriger’s philosophical meditation on this paradox. Moving from Plato’s cave to the algorithms of Neuralink, he traces the long exile of the observer from the world it seeks to describe. Objectivity has turned into its metaphysical tyranny, a dream of knowledge without witness.

In an age of disintegration—where freedom has lost its meaning and order feels indistinguishable from control—this audiobook reopens one of civilization’s oldest debates: how can humanity live together without destroying what makes it human?

From tribal rituals to televised inaugurations, from thrones to algorithms, politics has survived not through brute force but through spectacle, myth, and symbols. Georges Balandier called it the theater of power. This audiobook asks what happens when that theater moves to screens, platforms, and code.

From the first chipped stones to the shimmer of nanostructures lighter than air, matter has always set the boundaries of what we can imagine. But today, it no longer stays silent. It resists, responds, and begins to speak—a partner in thought rather than a passive substance. Supermaterials of the Future is a journey across the shifting frontier where science, engineering, and philosophy meet.

The Artificial Mind: Thinking Beyond Machines is a rigorous philosophical exploration of intelligence at a moment when the boundaries between human and artificial cognition have become uncertain.

The art described in book is presented as the highest form of human resistance—not merely political or social, but existential. It is not just a reaction to power, injustice, or the suffocating grip of convention; it is a way of transcending them altogether. In its most authentic form, art carves out a territory that lies beyond the reach of censors, beyond the dictates of circumstance, beyond the reach of those who believe control is the same as order.

Between Emptiness and Being: The Buddha and the Western Mind is a profound dialogue between two civilizations of thought — the contemplative East and the analytic West. Where Buddhism dissolves the illusion of permanence, Western philosophy constructs systems to preserve it. Between the silence of the Buddha and the speech of metaphysics lies the forgotten middle ground where awareness itself becomes understanding.

To Know or Not to Know is a meditation on curiosity, doubt, and the fragile brilliance of awareness—a journey through the architectures of thought toward the stillness where understanding becomes reverence.

This book invites you into a realm where green life—plants, forests, moss, roots, and leaves—take on voice and meaning, forming a hidden structure that slips past the limits of ordinary perception. In this territory, plants are no longer mere scenery or passive decoration. They emerge as full participants in the world’s unfolding story. They send signals and make decisions. They remember, nurture, and maintain connections in silence. They think—but their thought is not a spark of sudden brilliance; it is a slow, continuous current.

In this rigorous and unsettling study, Boris Kriger reconstructs Georges Bataille’s vision of the sacred as a trembling border between reason and its own undoing. Moving beyond biography and commentary, the book situates Bataille’s thought within the crises of twentieth-century modernity—the collapse of transcendence, the exhaustion of eroticism, and the metamorphosis of sacrifice into aesthetics.