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Who am I? British (no sympathy please). Child of the 50s & 60s. Lancashire born and bred, but now living in Sheffield. My career has always been as a psychologist, working with people with neurological and mental health problems and clients, offenders and patients in the civil and criminal justice systems. I’ve been a university lecturer too.

Books? Well, during my career I established a reputation in the field of hypnosis and (co)-edited and co-authored several books on the subject. I’m not given to boasting, but if there is one that I am especially proud of it is Hartland's Medical and Dental Hypnosis (2001). In my retirement, I’ve published three books on the theme of ‘Universal Awareness’ (more commonly expressed as ‘universal consciousn
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Hypnotherapy: A Handbook

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The Highly Hypnotizable Person

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Cold Water Plunges

Cold Water Plunges

There was an interesting feature in the Times on Tuesday headed ‘Are cold plunges good for you?’ Lots of claims about its benefits follow. ‘Celebrities and influencers have promoted it as a way to increase concentration, strengthen immunity, curb inflammation, lift mood, boost hormone levels, burn fat and prolong life.’ Etc., etc. But then we have, ‘Scientists doubt the benefits Read more of this blog post »
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The Shortest History of the United States of America by Don Watson
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I’ve always been aware that my knowledge of American history is seriously lacking. Which is why I chose to read this book. Goodness me! Most of it is about war, violence, cruelty, massacre and genocide, mass slavery, racism, greed, betrayal, corrupti ...more
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Heresy by Catherine Nixey
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I'm in the process of reading books that will help me understand the early establishment and growth of Christianity (how it spread across the globe will come later in my studies). Some books I have read are very academic and difficult for a lay perso ...more
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The God Equation by Michio Kaku
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This book is a very readable overview of modern physics, written with clarity and enthusiasm. It's a real page-turner for me.

Well, it WAS a real page-turner, but as I progressed through the book, the pages were turned at an increasingly slower pace!
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The Minerva Book of Short Stories 1 by Giles Gordon
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This book was until recently my bedtime reading. The stories average 12 pages in length (20 in all, average paperback size) so I often manage to read a whole story before switching off the light. There is a good mixture of themes and topics (largely ...more
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
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Great Britain? by Torsten Bell
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The God Equation by Michio Kaku
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This book is a very readable overview of modern physics, written with clarity and enthusiasm. It's a real page-turner for me.

Well, it WAS a real page-turner, but as I progressed through the book, the pages were turned at an increasingly slower pace!
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“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

“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

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

“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”
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“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

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

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