SARAM
By Robert Najemy
Table of Contents

Purpose of book: To give insight into how our inner conflicts are created as result of the development of various subpersonalities in response to past experiences. In this specific case we investigate more deeply the male psyche especially in response to the problem of beginning attracted to more than one women at the same time and the conflict between the need for work and recreation. Special insight is also given into the inner conflicts of a person who is viewed as others as a spiritual teacher.

Interests: Today many couples are affected by the problem of dual relationships. Similarly we are all affected by inner conflicts. Both men and women will be interested in seeing how these sub personalities develop and how they eventually come into conflict.

How it differs from similar books: There are probably no other books of this nature. Also the book is both a novel and simultaneously a workbook which suggests how one might work through his own inner conflicts. Most readers will see many parts of themselves expressed in this book.

Total pages of manuscript (as doubled columned pages 8.2 in. x 11.8 in. with text at 10 points) = 104. Total pages in published Greek Edition: Coming out in Nov. 1998. Number of printings of Greek Edition: This book will come out on the Greek market around November or 1998.

Chapter by Chapter Synopsis

INTRODUCTION

The reader is introduced to the concept of subpersonalities and given a list of possible inner conflicts so that he or she can have their own conflicts in mind as they read.

PRELUDE

We see our hero, in the future, experiencing the most difficult moment in his life in which he has to confess to the thirty most important persons in his life that he has cheated on his wife. (Something which he has to admit on television later on, much like president Clinton.)

1. SARAM'S PREVIOUS INCARNATIONS

We briefly go through eight of his previous incarnations discovering in each which experiences and situations gave birth to his various subpersonalities.

2. RAN'S BEGINNINGS

3. MATURING

In the above two chapters we follow Ran's early life in his new incarnation on the planet Alethia observing the subpersonalities which are born or strengthened in each experience or situation.

4. THE GREAT DISILLUSIONMENT

After graduating from an engineering university and working for a large International Chemical company, he comes to feel that his life is meaningless and decides to commit suicide.

5. THE SEARCH FOR MEANING

He then gives himself one year to find a reason to live, searches in many directions including religion (which he had previously rejected) philosophy, astrology, psychology etc. He finds three reasons to live; his evolutionary growth process, his ability to create and his ability to serve and be useful to others.

6. DISCOVERING "CREACTIVITY"

He goes through a phase of creative activity on which he discovers the wide variety of talents and aspects of himself which had been until now suppressed.

7. RAN'S RELATIONSHIPS

Here we investigate his repetitive mistakes and lessons to be learned through his relationships. Many readers will see parts of themselves in this chapter. We begin to notice how his subpersonalities start conflicting as he wants a relationship but also feels suppressed in one.

8. RAN'S FURTHER EDUCATION

He continues to be educated not only at schools but by life itself, as he is held at gun point a number of times and learns much about his own fears.

9. BACK IN MOOR

Further travel and difficulties bring him even deeper realizations about himself, relationships, love and life.

10. A SHORT STAY IN ALAND

He goes through even more heart opening experiences. His father is assassinated. His life is turned upside down. He confronts death.

11. LIVING IN WAR

Living in a war zone he is confronted by its senselessness and brutality. He decides to live his life more intensely.

12. CREATING A CENTER

He is directed to create a center for human potential which becomes quite successful and gains a large following.

13. PREMABABA

He meets his spiritual teacher and learns much from him through both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

14. PERSECUTION FROM THE CHURCH

He is persecuted by the church and subsequently by the state and at some points his life is in danger. He learns much from this.

15. THE REVOLUTION

As time passes, we notice that his life becomes consumed by his work at the center and his role as a teacher, writer and director of the center. Virtually no time is left for his subpersonalities who need recreation, love or affection. Those subpersonalities desiring affection and play, revolt and he falls in love with another woman, and in his confusion, cheats on his wife.

16. THE CRISIS

He confesses to all his closest fiends and the group which is running the center. He feels shamed that he could not live up to his own value system and was not doing himself what he had been teaching. He feels unworthy, rejected and decides to leave and go on retreat. His wife leaves him.

17. HEALING

He leaves for India where he seeks answers within himself and self healing. He seeks to understand how all this has happened. He tries to decide whether or not to continue with the center.

18. A SECOND CHANCE

He returns to the center experiencing mixed reactions from those there and learns much from that.

19. RAN CALLS A CONFERENCE OF ALL PERSONAS

20. THE CONFERENCE CONTINUES

21. AFTER THE BREAK

In these three chapters, he goes on retreat and realizes that he is not one person but many subpersonalities who have conflicting needs. He decides to hold a conference in which each subpersonality would have an opportunity to express its feelings, needs and thoughts on the issues which he was concerned with. To continue with the center or not? To create another relationship or not? During this conference it becomes obvious that different parts of himself have very different needs. Also many techniques from the cutting edge of spiritual psychology are employed such as regression to the childhood years, psychodrama, emotional release, body centered psychology etc.

22. THE UNIVERSAL CHILD

23. AT PEACE WITH HIS SELVES

His subpersonality which is called the Universal Child, who in fact is his higher self, is able to put all of these conflicting feelings and needs into perspective and bring about a harmonious reconciliation of all the subpersonalities.

24. METHODS OF RECONCILIATION

The reader is introduced to methods of discovering and reconciling his or her own inner conflicts

25. ROLES AND PERSONAS

A list of various roles and sub personalities along with their more frequent modes of behavior is presented so that the reader can recognize those aspects of himself which need reconciliation.