Shattering The Gods Within

The second book of Dr. David Allen’s landmark trilogy, Shattering the Gods Within, asserts that idols do not always com in the form of stone statues. Inner desires and needs can lead to destructive behavior and separate you from your Creator. Things like addictions, self-absorption, materialism, people, substances, entertainment, pleasure, career and empty religion can cause us to resist God, our deeper selves, and love in the world. The book discusses how six major pseudo-gods or addictions in modern culture distract us: narcissism, conformity, materialism, the sacredness of the affect, the bane of the extraordinary, and the illusion of permanence. The book deals with the shattering of these pseudo-gods or addictions of modern culture as a way to open our hearts to the Love that will not let us go, and the Face that does not turn away.