Michael Heap > Quotes

“Is it reasonable to speak of a modern ‘tyranny’, one that is having a malign effect on
our society, and which we may call ‘the tyranny of the professions’? 'The Tyranny of the Professions' on the author's website.”
― Michael Heap

“The universe, of which you are a part, does not have ‘an appearance’! All we can say is that the universe ‘is’.”
― Michael Heap, The Meaning of Universal Awareness: A Rational Foundation

“The universe creates amazing maps of itself at these very rare locations in its structure that we identify as sentient beings. And for this achievement, may we not truly say, ‘What a Wonderful World’?”
― Michael Heap, The Meaning of Universal Awareness: A Rational Foundation

“Our being is in our doing, and when we stop doing, we stop being.”
― Michael Heap, Universal Awareness: A Theory of the Soul

“Your awareness of being is eternal: you are always aware of being a conscious entity, if not the one you are now, then any other in the universe’s existence. There is no escape. How do you feel about this?”
― Michael Heap, The Meaning of Universal Awareness: A Rational Foundation

“Being a person and being aware of the person we are are activities of the universe: in a manner of speaking, we all ‘have the same Soul’.”
― Michael Heap, The Meaning of Universal Awareness: A Rational Foundation

“Is it reasonable to speak of a modern ‘tyranny’, one that is having a malign effect on our society, and which we may call ‘the tyranny of the professions’?
'The Tyranny of the Professions', on the author's website.”
― Michael Heap

“It makes sense to me to think of life rather as one long drama in which I play the role of being this person MH, and everyone else is playing the role of the person they are.”
― Michael Heap, The Meaning of Universal Awareness: A Rational Foundation

“If you survey healing throughout history and across contemporary cultures, and even within our own culture, you will encounter an extraordinary and fascinating range of human behaviour and beliefs, bounded only by the healer's own imagination and the compliance of those seeking to be healed, and therefore unbounded. I think this is more so than in any context other than religion.
Skeptical Intelligencer (4), 2005”
― Michael Heap

“I insist that if you put together mainstream public and private medicine, alternative or complementary medicine, commercially available, across-the-counter remedies, and so on, then you have a healing industry the collective scale of which vastly outstrips whatever it is really capable of achieving. In short, there seems to me to be far too much of it about.
Skeptical Intelligencer (4), 2005”
― Michael Heap

“It is a conceit of psychologists that, with our assessment tools and our psychometric tests, we are uniquely enabled to predict with confidence the feelings, thoughts, and behaviour of an individual person in a given situation. Most of the time, we can’t.

Some Thoughts on Providing Psychological Reports for the
Courts and other Agencies”
― Michael Heap

“The person you are is an activity that your body engages in rather than your body itself. You are an activity! It is therefore possible to state, ‘I do, therefore I am.”
― Michael Heap, The Meaning of Universal Awareness: A Rational Foundation

“It seems to be the fate of all therapeutic models and the techniques derived from them that they are extended into areas beyond those in which they have a valid application. Indeed the range of valid application can be very narrow or even non-existent.”
― Michael Heap, Hypnotherapy: A Handbook

“The absurdities of life provide rich material indeed for the student of human psychology. There is scarcely a limit to the degree to which people - you and I and everyone else - may be persuaded to behave and think in ways that are illogical, meaningless and bizarre while believing the opposite to be the case.
The 'Skeptical Adversaria', Summer 2008.”
― Michael Heap

“My story begins in a hotel bar in a run-down seaside resort somewhere in Wales, where people felt strangely compelled to act in absurd ways to fulfil the roles they had been assigned. And this is exactly how it ends four years later, in a provincial County Court, complete with men wearing black cloaks and grey wigs.

Heap M (2000). A legal case of a man complaining of an extraordinary sexual disorder following stage hypnosis. Contemporary Hypnosis, 17, 143-149.”
― Michael Heap

“The purpose of therapy is to authenticate the therapist.
Skeptical Intelligencer (4), 2005”
― Michael Heap