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This We Know
This is a book about knowing and what it means to know. We don't give our knowledge a second thought, yet some of us would bet considerable amounts of money on what we know. We are proud of our retention of facts. Pub quizzes and TV quiz shows thrive on this seemingly basic desire. We would swear on a bible that the sun will set and rise each day. In fact, the sun stays relatively static as the Earth rotates on its axis giving the illusion of sunset and sunrise. We know, for a fact, that we know more things than our predecessors. By inference, our descendants will know more than us yet again. In a hundred years' time, they may even smile lovingly at our innocence and naivety.
Knowing there is an infinity of things yet to know is one of the key tenets of our knowledge. This book is a purposely a short exploration into what we know, what we don't know, and how to open up the floodgates to acquiring even more knowledge. In this way, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, humanity can evolve from its current state into a very bright future indeed.
Knowing there is an infinity of things yet to know is one of the key tenets of our knowledge. This book is a purposely a short exploration into what we know, what we don't know, and how to open up the floodgates to acquiring even more knowledge. In this way, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, humanity can evolve from its current state into a very bright future indeed.
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First published September 18, 2012
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About the author
Tom Evans
143 books64 followersI am an author, meditation guide and temporal alchemist. After publishing 15 books non-fiction books, I've just published my 1st novel, Soulwaves which is a potential future history of planet Earth and humanity. I have now written the prequel/sequel to this novel in the form of 12 short stories and tall tales.
I love exploring how the mind works (or doesn't) and reading the esoteric with the aim of making it exoteric.
Currently exploring how to bend time and space, how to tune into future memories and how authors can channel their future self who knows the words they have yet to write (or something like that !!)
I love exploring how the mind works (or doesn't) and reading the esoteric with the aim of making it exoteric.
Currently exploring how to bend time and space, how to tune into future memories and how authors can channel their future self who knows the words they have yet to write (or something like that !!)
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October 11, 2012
It Opened My Eyes!!!! Could Not Put It Down!!!, October 10, 2012
By K. Green (Jamaica)
This review is from: This We Know (Kindle Edition)
My first impression of the book was how delicately Tom Evans seeks to explain the world we live in. He looks objectively at humanity from birth to death. For the first time I found a book that touches on subjects that I was baffled by. It does not try to give you the answers but rather guide us to new possibilities. This book is one that my children and grandchildren will one day come to love. It is easy to read and takes less than a minute to cover each chapter. The book challenges our perceptions of what it is to "know". In chapter 9 left me in stitches of laughter(READ THE BOOK AND YOU WILL KNOW WHY). Tom Evans has a brilliant mind and in the end he left a mind-blowing lesson for us to ponder. This is truly inspirational and I am happy I read it because I learnt so much.
by Winsome Campbell-Green Author of "Ten Life Changing Lessons".
By K. Green (Jamaica)
This review is from: This We Know (Kindle Edition)
My first impression of the book was how delicately Tom Evans seeks to explain the world we live in. He looks objectively at humanity from birth to death. For the first time I found a book that touches on subjects that I was baffled by. It does not try to give you the answers but rather guide us to new possibilities. This book is one that my children and grandchildren will one day come to love. It is easy to read and takes less than a minute to cover each chapter. The book challenges our perceptions of what it is to "know". In chapter 9 left me in stitches of laughter(READ THE BOOK AND YOU WILL KNOW WHY). Tom Evans has a brilliant mind and in the end he left a mind-blowing lesson for us to ponder. This is truly inspirational and I am happy I read it because I learnt so much.
by Winsome Campbell-Green Author of "Ten Life Changing Lessons".
May 5, 2013
This We Know is short, elegant and perfectly formed. It asks two simple questions, what do we know and what don't we know? It is thought provoking and enticing in that simplicity and provides the reader with a chance to 'get out of their own brain' for a while to think about some of the bigger questions in life.
On the whole it offers facts and a different perspective with which to both consider and understand them. However, a few points he offers are simply one man's opinion, and given that the rest of the book is so well structured, they could cause some readers to feel that the whole is no longer viable.
If you can look past these though and see the bigger picture that Tom is trying to present, you will almost certainly find yourself with a head full of different thoughts that could just be the catalyst you need to ignite action.
On the whole it offers facts and a different perspective with which to both consider and understand them. However, a few points he offers are simply one man's opinion, and given that the rest of the book is so well structured, they could cause some readers to feel that the whole is no longer viable.
If you can look past these though and see the bigger picture that Tom is trying to present, you will almost certainly find yourself with a head full of different thoughts that could just be the catalyst you need to ignite action.
February 18, 2013
Good quick book that gave me new perspective on life and death.
November 21, 2012
A great book to keep you thinking!!!
December 4, 2012
I received a copy of this book as a Goodreads giveaway.
I was excited to get this book and sat down in bed to read it before I went to sleep. At first I was intrigued because it got me thinking about the world and the different things going on right as I was reading. And what I liked was that everything seemed to be really objective....until chapter 7. The sentence that changed it for me was "The Catholic Church would have to change its ludicrous doctrine on the non-use of condoms." That to me was not an objective statement, but the author's personal feelings. I don't know what the author's background is, but in the name of learning, I suggest that he sit down with a Catholic priest and really find out what the teaching on condoms and contraceptives is. Perhaps he may learn something he didn't know before and see where they are coming from. I wonder if he was aware that the church has no objections to abstinence during ovulation, among other things. It's all part of natural family planning, which a priest would be happy to explain to him. If he already knows about all this, then perhaps he should leave his personal opinions out of a book that seems to otherwise be focused on facts. I'm sorry to say, but that line ruined it for me.
I was excited to get this book and sat down in bed to read it before I went to sleep. At first I was intrigued because it got me thinking about the world and the different things going on right as I was reading. And what I liked was that everything seemed to be really objective....until chapter 7. The sentence that changed it for me was "The Catholic Church would have to change its ludicrous doctrine on the non-use of condoms." That to me was not an objective statement, but the author's personal feelings. I don't know what the author's background is, but in the name of learning, I suggest that he sit down with a Catholic priest and really find out what the teaching on condoms and contraceptives is. Perhaps he may learn something he didn't know before and see where they are coming from. I wonder if he was aware that the church has no objections to abstinence during ovulation, among other things. It's all part of natural family planning, which a priest would be happy to explain to him. If he already knows about all this, then perhaps he should leave his personal opinions out of a book that seems to otherwise be focused on facts. I'm sorry to say, but that line ruined it for me.
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