When I was 28 I ran away from career, London life, everything I knew. I took a one way ticket to Mexico, I was lost and simply wanted to find myself. I was told later this is the time of Saturn returning, but at the time I really had no idea why, or what I was doing, where I was heading.
All I knew was that I had to go, that everything around me and how I felt inside was wrong.
I became obsessed. Why do we suffer? Was it political or spiritual? Why when we are so rich in the west does life feel so very poor?
That was 24 years ago. Today, once again I live in London. Since that first flight, I have learned much. This book is about the answers I have come to.
What if there was one lie, so widely believed and acted upon, and of such monumental importance that it effected the whole of civilisation? Wouldn't you want to read about it?
When I tell people about my decision to leave, depending on the mood I'm in I colour it in different ways. The young man seeking his fortune, striding bravely out to meet the world. Or the anxious, desperate lost person, running away from a world he simply couldn't handle. Every story has two sides, but the truth is I had really no say in it. I remember trying to explain why I was going to my friends, and not being able to. I just had to. There was a storm in my heart and it was as if the wind itself was preparing to sweep me away. The greatest truths are often quite startling, 'if your left hand offends you cut it off.'
I had no choice, just as I have no choice now sitting here on the 299 bus typing this on my phone.
It's ironic because the lie is the very opposite of the scientific model we like to think we love so much. Actually its a tissue of lies but it all starts with observation, the classic scientfic approach, or rather a failure to observe.
Walking into work, bit of tension. People all around, not noticing how it is. A moment of death, I see the cherry blossom with His innocent eye. All is blowing forward, beautiful, miraculous!
Indra became King of the Gods just by watching.
The lie starts with the way we see self and the world, and goes on from there.
The results of the lie are multiple. Disenchantment from the world, and from each other. A lack of fulfilment in the simple yet profound things that go on all around us. The obsession with looks, status, money and power in the world. The failure of 'advanced' society to look after one another and the natural world. The glorification through advertising of qualities that used to be thought of as sin. Greed, lust, pride, envy
And what if the same lie, properly understood, could secure real human freedom ? Would you take action for the truth?
And what if, by following that lie we are as Lemmings, marching on our way to the global cliff edge?
All I knew was that I had to go, that everything around me and how I felt inside was wrong.
I became obsessed. Why do we suffer? Was it political or spiritual? Why when we are so rich in the west does life feel so very poor?
That was 24 years ago. Today, once again I live in London. Since that first flight, I have learned much. This book is about the answers I have come to.
What if there was one lie, so widely believed and acted upon, and of such monumental importance that it effected the whole of civilisation? Wouldn't you want to read about it?
When I tell people about my decision to leave, depending on the mood I'm in I colour it in different ways. The young man seeking his fortune, striding bravely out to meet the world. Or the anxious, desperate lost person, running away from a world he simply couldn't handle. Every story has two sides, but the truth is I had really no say in it. I remember trying to explain why I was going to my friends, and not being able to. I just had to. There was a storm in my heart and it was as if the wind itself was preparing to sweep me away. The greatest truths are often quite startling, 'if your left hand offends you cut it off.'
I had no choice, just as I have no choice now sitting here on the 299 bus typing this on my phone.
It's ironic because the lie is the very opposite of the scientific model we like to think we love so much. Actually its a tissue of lies but it all starts with observation, the classic scientfic approach, or rather a failure to observe.
Walking into work, bit of tension. People all around, not noticing how it is. A moment of death, I see the cherry blossom with His innocent eye. All is blowing forward, beautiful, miraculous!
Indra became King of the Gods just by watching.
The lie starts with the way we see self and the world, and goes on from there.
The results of the lie are multiple. Disenchantment from the world, and from each other. A lack of fulfilment in the simple yet profound things that go on all around us. The obsession with looks, status, money and power in the world. The failure of 'advanced' society to look after one another and the natural world. The glorification through advertising of qualities that used to be thought of as sin. Greed, lust, pride, envy
And what if the same lie, properly understood, could secure real human freedom ? Would you take action for the truth?
And what if, by following that lie we are as Lemmings, marching on our way to the global cliff edge?
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