From the Author Dr. David F. Allen: Shattering the Gods Within describes how once we face our hearts we find much resistance to God, our deeper selves, and love in the world. The book discusses how six major pseudo-gods or addictions in modern culture block the heart: 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.