With a voice that's as captivating as the experiences shared, buckle up for an unforgettable ride that challenges conventions, questions realities, and ultimately celebrates the beautifully chaotic human mind.
Doc is no one. He is Banksy’s erudite elder brother, a Deadpool wannabe, and the Shadow of the world’s most interesting man. When artificial intelligence has a fever dream, it dreams of being Doc. He is a son, brother, husband, father, veteran, psycho, therapist, and friend. He is the grinning embodiment of the Duchenne marker, all of his lies are true, and he writes his books with tears in his eyes for you and only you.
Ben Askins (PA-C, MDiv) has an eclectic background with degrees in Outdoor Education, Intercultural Studies, Physician Assistant Studies, and Divinity. He has nearly two decades of experience practicing and teaching wilderness, tactical, and expeditionary medicine in the military. In civilian life, he is a Psychiatric Physician Assistant with an evidence-focused and integrative approach to mental health that includes extensive experience providing ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, medicine management, and spiritual direction.
He is certified with the Multidisciplinary Association on Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. Ben is a member of the Wilderness Medical Society, the William Blake Society, a National Outdoor Leadership school alum, a veteran of the Global War on Terrorism, and has completed postgraduate training in Neuropsychiatry and Genomics.
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5-Star Review from a 3-Star General:"I have never read anything like it and will refer to it as I journey through life. It was quite the trip!"
~ Lieutenant General Martin R. Steele
USMC (Ret.)
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Anti-Hero's Journey: The Zero With a Thousand Faces is “the most concise, entertaining, irreverent, and punk-rock set of pointing-out instructions ever seen.” ~ From the foreword by Dr. Mike Stone (MD), former Harvard Emergency Medicine Faculty, Ultrasound Hero, Good Dude
Joseph Campbell famously described the pattern imbedded in every good story, from ancient mythology to science fiction, as the Hero’s Journey, the Monomyth: “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder; fabulous forces are encountered and a decisive victory is won; the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.” The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
The Hero’s Journey is a fantastic children’s story. Alternatively, this book is for adults only. When you are ready to see the pattern of reality inscribed on the bottom of every story, Anti-Hero’s Journey offers the Zeromyth: “A zero ventures further than a hero, beyond the illusions of supernatural wonder, beyond fabulous forces, beyond decisive victory, never returning from a mysterious adventure, unknowing everything untrue. There are no powers, no boons, no fellow man. The zero has nothing, gives nothing, takes nothing, is nothing. The hero is all illusion, all reality is zero.” The Zero With a Thousand Faces.
Foreword by: Dr. Mike Stone, MD
Introduction
Chapter Zero: The Liar
Chapter One: Stories
Chapter Two: Birth
Chapter Three: Fear
Chapter Four: Infinity
Chapter Five: Trauma
Chapter Six: Religion
Chapter Seven: Games
Chapter Eight: Therapy
Chapter Nine: Prayers
Chapter Ten: Virgins
Chapter Eleven: Naked Mole Rats
Chapter Twelve: Meditation
Chapter Thirteen: Monsters
Chapter Fourteen: Absolute Zero
Chapter Fifteen: Suicide
Chapter Sixteen: The Book of Job
Epilogue
Chapter Sixteen: The Book of Job Epilogue
I finished the book. I keep thinking of the word 'exquisite' over and over. You know how it can be used to describe something beautiful and something unbearably painful? I mean it like that.
~Rosalie Allen (JD) Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
"Ben is one of my favorite thinkers on the planet. Conversations with him always cause me to look at the world and my life in a new way. This book did the same thing. It made me laugh, it made me cry, and most of all, made me ask the question again, ‘What the heck am I doing here? What are we ALL doing here?’ I have both more clarity and more confusion than I ever had before. Such is the nature of going deep on any question, let alone, the ‘question of all questions’ as addressed by the World’s Most Interesting Man."
~ Luke Murray, MD (Founder, Awesome Inc.)
"The most concise, entertaining, irreverent, and punk-rock set of pointing-out instructions ever seen. "
(From the foreword)
~ Dr. Mike Stone, MD (Precision Medicine Physician, Wild Health)
"Askins' slim volume of musings - part memoir, part work of philosophy - dismantles the idea of the 'self' even as it encourages readers to live more fully and fearlessly."
~ Kirkus Indie Book Reviews
"You can read this book as a metaphysical allegory. You can read this as a no-self-help book. You can read this as a heartbreaking memoir. But YOU can't read this."
~ Robert (Verified Amazon Review)
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