The Way OF VEGETARIANISM, SELFHOOD, AND THE BEYOND

Most books on vegetarianism focus on the external: why to choose vegetarianism, how to navigate the world as a vegetarian, recipes. With The Way Of Vegetarianism, Selfhood, And The Beyond, Steven Arthur Collier, PhD, goes a different, exciting direction. He has written a book for vegetarians and nonvegetarians alike that focuses instead on the internal, that answers the question we all must ask: "Who am I?"

Drawing on Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Zen, Judaism, Christianity, and more spiritual belief systems, along with his more than thirty-five years as a psychotherapist (most of which as a licensed clinical psychologist), and nearly half a century of vegetarianism, Collier walks the reader through deep self-discovery, rediscovery, and self-realization. To help, he introduces his own illustrated experiential selfhood technique: The Experiential Adjunctive Selfhood Technique (E.A.S.T.). We all are victims of habit, but an expanded consciousness of the core of the self can bring about a freeing degree of choice.

Collier's writing is a celebration of a new way of being, of an end to all animal suffering, including our own, of a guidance system for both the here and the hereafter-one of less anxiety, guilt, depression, emptiness and more fulfillment, self-esteem, purpose, connection, and behaviors representative of true self.

Dr. Collier is a practicing clinical psychologist. He has worked as a psychotherapist for over 35 years treating thousands of clients in Southern California, mainly in the La Jolla, Carlsbad, and Palm Springs areas. He has specialized in multiple areas of diagnostics and treatment utilizing neurological, cognitive behavioral, analytic, humanistic, existential, gestalt, phenomenological, and transpersonal therapeutic principles. Dr. Collier's major treatment emphasis encompasses in depth SELF THERAPY involving Expansion of Consciousness regarding the SELF.