World is My Mirror
Description
The World is My Mirror sparkles with a commonsensical humour, but Richard Bates is serious when it matters. Richard is an "ordinary bloke" with his own small business in England. A little less ordinary is this simple, yet profound, book about his experience of trying to find out the meaning of his life and what happened when the trying stopped. In straightforward language he takes us with him into an exploration of the very foundation of existence, while suggesting no special practices, no charismatic teachings¿just investigation of a very practical nature.
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Richard Bates lives in Warwickshire, England. Hes married with two children and for the past 25 years has worked as a locksmith. He has a degree in psychology from The Open University and spends his life enjoying time with his family and writing about everything and nothing.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Setting the Scene
- Looking at What Is
- Relatively Speaking
- Rules of Grammar Are Not Necessarily Rules of Nature
- An Atheist Looks to a Christian for a Sense of Identity and Vice Versa
- Mind
- Life Anew
- Favouring The Teacher Over The Message
- Time
- Absence
- My Story
- Games
- The Lucid Dream
- Repeat Performances
- The Self
- The Old And The New
- Face To No Face
- The Appeal to Perfection
- Science: Tripping Over Its Own Shoe Laces
- Abstraction and Concepts
- Look Into My Eyes
- Creating the Drama
- The Fear of Other People
- A Person Can Only Seek
- Therapy: Being Honest
- The World Is My Scapegoat
- Breath-taking stuff!
- Allegory and Storytelling
- The Message That Floats Your Boat
- Fantasy/Reality
- Come Fly with Me
- Children: No Better Guru
- Hatch, Match and Dispatch
- The Tentacles of the Universe
- The Relief
