Why This Book About Critical Life Experience
I’ve written seven of my deeply personal, keenly emotional stories of critical life experience that I’m certain will stir familiarity.
What’s different here is, I didn’t just live and write the stories, I studied my experiences to find the value in them.
In so doing I uncovered many healing tools I share in this book and you will want to know them.
A Philosophy about Critical Life Experience
Additionally, I share a remarkable philosophy regarding how our painful, critical life experiences can profoundly lessen the ills of our society today. Some of these afflictions are all too familiar to us:
Division
Lies
Racism
Self-indulgence
Sexism
Hatred
Totalitarianism
Craving of power and money at any cost
Mental disease
Homelessness
Furthermore, I have seen, over the past three decades or so, a drip, drip, dripping of many societal changes, corporate shiftings and political leanings. The results have moved a massive amount of power into the hands of a very few. Our middle class has been gutted and suffering of the masses is high.
Most of these changes have occurred behind closed doors, to the knowledge of a select few and against current laws without paid consequences. I don’t know where our world is headed, but I fear it will be at an enormous price.
Critical Life Experience and Hopefulness
However, I do have great trust in the majority of human beings who, I believe, have compassion, truth and love in their hearts. Thus, hopefully, we can begin to reunite with the sharing of our stories of critical life experiences. These are common to everyone and are the Great Equalizer. We can begin by bringing more people together in knowledge and understanding. Thus propagating the will to turn a tide of resistance against the greed for power and money that is trying to rule the world today.
The book is just one small cog in a wheel bringing to light that the common denominator for all human beings is the pains and the joys we encounter every day. Every person is your brother or sister in mankind. You pass them on the street, share a bus, train or plane, meet in a doorway, stand in a lineup, applaud and cheer with a thousand others at a sporting event or cry at events of devastation.
Everyday Jacks and Jills around the world showing others, by listening, that we can share our critical life experience stories with each other. In so doing, realizing we are all the same. All of us lead lives of highs and lows, good and bad no matter who we are, where we live, our education, ethnicity, gender, etc.
How to Open the Door
Ask someone, “How are you being today” rather than “How are you doing today”. ‘Being’ is an intrinsic state, ‘doing’ is extrinsic. Therefore ‘being’ is an inside job while ‘doing’ is our outer, activity state. You will be met with all kinds of reactions, often, “What do you mean, ‘being’?” Now the door is open. You can take it from there.
It could be said we are one human flock. Humanity can bring empathy back to replace the self-entitlement, narcissism and hate that has grown exponentially amongst people in recent times. We simply have to talk with each other, share our stories and realize that division harms us.
Excerpt from book:
“Son reached over and took his Dad’s hand in his. That small action said everything to me. I wept even harder knowing it was going to be okay. Love had won.”
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