William Liberty

William Liberty graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in cognitive psychology from the University of Toronto in 1982. His thesis program instructor was Dr. Endel Tulving, well known in his field for his theoretical distinction between episodic and semantic memory (received the Gardiner International Award in 2005). Upon graduation William Liberty worked in the advertising industry rising to become a retail then national campaign television producer. He left the advertising industry in the early 1990s and has been working as a multimedia artist, writer and television producer/director in Canada and the United States ever since. He has lived in British Columbia for the last 25 years, currently residing in West Vancouver with his wife and two sons. The Path of the Pure Creature is his first book.

How do we learn from our personal experience? It is a question about how we can decide matters for ourselves instead of believing what others tell us. That's important.

Why am I the one best qualified to provide an answer? First, no one else seems to know the question. No academic I am aware of has ever adequately described how ordinary people learn from their experience. Second, I stumbled upon the answer while trying to understand how my childhood friend Tony and I invented a lifetsyle we call torking. By working backwards I figured out the bottom-up method described in the book. Once I understood it, my mind wouldn't let go of this idea, and for two years I got up in the middle of the night, every night, and wrote for five to eight hours straight before going to work all day. Once you get into it, it is an intoxicating and incredibly powerful conceptual tool. My book is a testament to what a wise teacher personal experience can be if you know how to listen.

To the extent that people tend to act on the basis of how they define the situations that confront them, the empirical deductions and appropriated authoritative proclamations that constitute people's beliefs do have the potential to be consequential just by their mere existence.

Where do you get the energy, passion, and direction to go your own way in a happy and fulfilling manner without studying and utilizing someone else's approach? You tap into your pure creature. That is the person you were the day you were born.

Be advised that the experiential focus of this book reveals many unconventional paths that are alternatives to conventional systems like religion, careers, and the traditional family.