The Ego Trick Book

Are you still the person who lived 15 10 or five years ago? 15 10 or five minutes ago? Can you plan for your retirement if the you of 30 years hence is in some sense a different person? What and who is the real you? Does it remain constant over time and place or is it something much more fragmented and fluid? Is it known to you or are you as much a mystery to yourself as others are to you?With his usual wit infectious curiosity and bracing scepticism Julian Baggini sets out to answer these fundamental and unsettling questions.His fascinating quest draws on the history of philosophy but also anthropology sociology psychology and neurology;he talks to theologians priests allegedly reincarnated Lamas and delves into real-life cases of lost memory personality disorders and personal transformation; and candidly and engagingly he describes his own experiences.After reading The Ego Trick you will never see yourself in the same way again.