Topothesie : Der Mensch in artgerechter Haltung

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Topothesie is the third book of the German trilogy Meaning of life (1. Omnisophie, 2. Supramanie, 3. Topothesie) written by Gunter Dueck. The author is chief technologist at IBM in Mannheim, Germany and has written a number of books on management and philosophical topics.

Topothesie derives from Greek, "A lively narrative of an exciting imaginative place". There, all human beings are kept under conditions optimized to the needs of their species. Dueck distinguishes three types of people: the natural, the right and the true person. Natural people think, feel and act differently from right people and also from true people. Each type requires to be approached in a different manner. Only if treated according to their specific type and its needs, will there be meaning in their lives and human souls will no longer be harmed. If treated in this way, human beings will be moving from the stressful beta-brainwave-stage of today’s life into the positive, stressless alphawave-stage in which they will blossom out and lead a much happier life.

This alphaethisation as the author calls it, is based on the recognition and understanding that there are different types of people in life. The book is addressed to all parents, teachers and managers to bring up, educate and lead people according to their specific type of person. Instead of pressing all human beings into the same system, thinking they were all the same and trying to make them all the same, all existing systems should be adapted to the people.