Transcending the Psychological Trap We're Caught In
by Cara Scott

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The greatest threat to human well-being may not come from outside forces, but from patterns operating quietly within the human mind. The psychological trap is the mental health pandemic humanity has struggled with throughout human history. It explains why we have evolved into creatures of habit and why addiction has woven itself into the fabric of our societies. In Transcending the Psychological Trap We’re Caught In, Cara Scott uses smoking addiction as an analogy, along with insights from her own experience, to reveal how this trap operates. Through this lens, she introduces the concept of the conditioned mind pattern and shows how these learned patterns quietly influence behaviour when we move through life on autopilot. More importantly, Scott explains present moment awareness and its ability to loosen the grip of these patterns and make transcendence possible. This book is a wake-up call. It has taken billions of years of evolution to reach this point. Transcendence of the psychological trap is evolution’s next step.

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Cara Scott is a mother whose desire to understand the forces shaping the world her children will inherit led her to examine the patterns influencing human behaviour. Those observations, combined with years of academic training and personal experience, inspired the ideas explored in her book series. Scott holds a PhD in social psychology, the scientific study of how social environments shape human thought and behaviour. During her graduate studies, she conducted research on addiction and worked with incarcerated women, examining how social influences shape behaviour. She also contributed to research with the National Research Council of Canada exploring the psychological effects of physical and workplace environments. Today, she is the founder of True Intelligence Inc., a platform that brings together her work in writing, education, and advocacy as she continues exploring the role awareness may play in humanity’s next stage of evolution.

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