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The Entheos Project
The books

Three books

Three finished manuscripts. The first is written to the person: you are not broken, you are buried. The second is written to the helpers. The third sets out the whole design.

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Cover of Archaeology of the Soul, Book One of By God’s Design, by David Wade Pope
BOOK ONE · THE PERSON
Archaeology of the Soul
Cover of The Answer Is Not the Person, Book Two of By God’s Design, by David Wade Pope
BOOK TWO · THE BRIDGE
The Answer Is Not the Person
Cover of The Entheos Project, Book Three of By God’s Design, by David Wade Pope
BOOK THREE · THE ARCHITECTURE
The Entheos Project
Cover of Archaeology of the Soul, Book One of By God’s Design, by David Wade Pope
Book One · The person

Archaeology of the Soul

Written to the person.

What it is for

This book is written for the person who has tried everything and still feels stuck. It is written at a reading level that anyone can follow, not because the ideas are simple, but because the people who need them most have often been excluded by complicated language. If you have a Ph.D. or a GED, this book is for you. The ideas do not change based on your education.

In his words

Here is what is really happening. You are not broken. You are buried. There is a huge difference.

Something that is broken needs to be fixed or thrown away. Something that is buried just needs to be uncovered. The thing itself is fine. It has been fine the whole time. It just has a lot of stuff piled on top of it.

From Book One

Cover of The Answer Is Not the Person, Book Two of By God’s Design, by David Wade Pope
Book Two · The bridge

The Answer Is Not the Person

Written to the helpers.

In his words

The answer is not the person. The answer is the design.

A design is not a person. A design was built. What was built can be rebuilt.

From Book Two

Cover of The Entheos Project, Book Three of By God’s Design, by David Wade Pope
Book Three · The architecture

The Entheos Project

The whole design.

What it is for

I wrote it for you if you have tried everything and you are still stuck, if the medicine helped a little and then stopped, if the meetings never quite took, if you have done all the right things and still feel like something is wrong with you at the deepest level.

I wrote it for you if you sit in a church and feel nothing while everyone around you seems to feel everything.

I wrote it for you if you keep relapsing even though you want to be free more than you have ever wanted anything.

I wrote it for you if some system has hung a word around your neck, treatment-resistant, chronic, hopeless, and you have started to believe the word is your name.

I wrote it for you if you are not the one who is buried, but you love someone who is, and you have run out of ways to reach them, and you are exhausted and afraid.

I wrote it for the doctors and the pastors and the sponsors who are good at what they do and have felt, in their bones, that their one good tool was never quite enough.

If any of that is you, then you are exactly who I had in mind, and you are holding the right book.

From Book Three, in his words

In his words

Almost everyone treats the body, or treats the soul. Almost no one treats the person. This book is about the person.

From Book Three

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