This book has been updated and incorporated into a compilation volume: Stalking the Design of Destiny, to be released in October 2013.

The description still stands:

Throughout time, seers and shamans of particular backgrounds have practiced a teaching scheme called stalking. In this instance, the term does not refer to the aberrant persecution of another’s welfare: the literal opposite is the case as the stalker’s goal is to free their apprentice from apparently reasonable, common behaviors that will cause unforeseen harm down the road.

The process of raising these errant beliefs, from the unrealized to eye level, is endlessly affronting because the circumstances that generate them inherently create a maze of self-justification. It follows that overcoming this intellectual labyrinth requires that the teacher be cunning, stealthy, and relentless in the dismantling of the potential student’s safeguards to self-discovery, beginning with arriving in disguise to probe their beliefs.

In this...