The Gist in the Mist - Softcover

Lethbridge, Dr. Anthony Roland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438982488 ISBN 13: 9781438982489

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2009

Synopsis

WHAT IS REALLY REAL? Is the chair you are sitting on really there? What does reality and existence mean to you? Can you, as an ordinary human, get a grip of what reality is or could be? Well, yes you can! You can raise your perception horizons without becoming a nuclear physicist, philosopher or priest. MAN IS AN UNCERTAINTY MACHINE. He is fine-tuned to deal with uncertainty. He is not primarily a love machine (I am of course the exception), nor a sex machine nor a fighting machine nor a hate machine and not even a gene machine. He is an UNCERTAINTY MACHINE. People like and seek certainty in their lives, but is uncertainty the real path or key to reality? Should we celebrate and embrace uncertainty? So let's start using all that uncertainty and applying it to every component of our very being. · Can we trust our senses or is perception deception? · Can we trust the physical objects we are seeing around us? What is the matter batter holding us all together and how does matter . . . chatter? · What is the relationship between mind and matter? Is it the case that If you don't mind, it doesn't matter? · Do we have free will or are we just a quantum puppet? · If religion is the opium of the masses, is science the amphetamine of the individual? Do we put too much reliance on science and is our conviction a restriction? · Could it be that doubt gives you clout? Read on and be transformed to another world, the world of: 'THE GIST IN THE MIST'.

About this title

About the Author

Anthony Roland Lethbridge was born in Kensington, West London just after the Second World War. He is partly a product of the large-scale changes in society that occurred at that time. It was the swinging 50's and 60's in London; the time of scientific advancement, miniskirts, long hair, the Beatles and freedoms, that had not been known before. This included a greater freedom of thought without the reactions of the pre-war establishment and the church. Along with the increased freedoms generally people were fed up with war and fighting and wanted to create a less aggressive and less formal society. Everything was much more laid back and open to debate than the earlier Victorian era. The secular society was formed.
As a teenager, two separate incidents profoundly affected the way he saw the world. The first was a surprising burst of inspiration that sprung suddenly into his mind whilst musing on how to trisect a line with a compass and ruler. The second occurred when he was walking along Ealing Broadway and a close friend, unexpectedly, questioned whether a chair displayed in a shop window was really real.
Anthony went on to study Medicine at Guy's Hospital London (qualifying as a Doctor in 1976) and later joined the Royal Air Force. After marrying and having two children he was obviously very busy, but the thought of the chair kept niggling in his mind. He did not have time to address the problem with work and family, and it was not until his family had grown up that he had the opportunity to give the problem more consideration and hence eventually wrote `THE GIST IN THE MIST'.

From the Back Cover

WHAT IS REALLY REAL?

Is the chair you are sitting on really there?

What does reality and existence mean to you?

Can you, as an ordinary human, get a grip of what reality is or could be?

Well, yes you can! You can raise your perception horizons without becoming a nuclear physicist, philosopher or priest.

MAN IS AN UNCERTAINTY MACHINE. He is fine-tuned to deal with uncertainty. He is not primarily a love machine (I am of course the exception), nor a sex machine nor a fighting machine nor a hate machine and not even a gene machine. He is an UNCERTAINTY MACHINE.

People like and seek certainty in their lives, but is uncertainty the real path or key to reality? Should we celebrate and embrace uncertainty?

So let's start using all that uncertainty and applying it to every component of our very being.

* Can we trust our senses or is perception deception?

* Can we trust the physical objects we are seeing around us? What is the matter batter holding us all together and how does matter...chatter?

* What is the relationship between mind and matter? Is it the case that If you don't mind, it doesn't matter?

* Do we have free will or are we just a quantum puppet?

* If religion is the opium of the masses, is science the amphetamine of the individual? Do we put too much reliance on science and is our conviction a restriction?

* Could it be that doubt gives you clout?

Read on and be transformed to another world, the world of:

`THE GIST IN THE MIST'.

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438982488
• ISBN 13: 9781438982489
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 724