RAVINDER BHALLA, M.D. is a board-certified psychiatrist who has spent forty years examining why people and institutions remain trapped in patterns that harm them. Born to parents who survived the partition of India in 1947-his father narrowly escaping death in violence that killed millions-Bhalla grew up with intergenerational trauma and chose to study cycles rather than perpetuate them. He has treated thousands of patients across four decades, watching individuals struggle with the same patterns he sees operating at civilizational scale: scarcity thinking creating self-devouring cycles that consume everyone they touch. His clinical work has focused particularly on patients cycling through incarceration, addiction, and mental illness-experiencing firsthand how systems designed to punish rather than heal perpetuate the conditions they claim to address. This experience informs the book's central argument: that our major crises are not separate problems but manifestations of operating from scarcity when we are, at our deepest nature, abundance. Bhalla brings together clinical psychiatry, Nietzschean philosophy, systems thinking, and historical analysis to examine why we remain trapped despite knowing better-and what it would take to choose differently.

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