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Success Cybernetics
Practical applications of human cybernetics.
241 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1970
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Uell Stanley Andersen
15 books60 followersUell Stanley Andersen was a successful self-help author in the 1950s and 1960s. Once a professional football player, he had a number of careers including running an advertising agency, wild-catting for oil, logging at the Columbia Sawmill, and acting as a gunnery officer on a destroyer escort.
Born in the USA of Norwegian parentage, U. S. Andersen developed his inspiring, dynamic philosophy during a very active life. He learned about the psychology of winning when he was a football great. In World War II he served as a Naval officer and in the heat of battle learned that evil is the great illusion and that sin is error. It was in Mary Baker Eddy's book "Science and Health" that he first glimpsed these great truths, and he later quoted from her book in some of his own metaphysical writings. In later years as a successful Los Angeles businessman, he learned that the secret of success is to create rather than to compete.
As well as the Christian Science writings of Mary Baker Eddy, Andersen also studied the mystical teachings and philosophies of Emmanuel Swedenborg, of the American "sleeping prophet", Edgar Cayce, of the celebrated Scottish spiritualist Daniel Dunglas Home, of philosopher Jacob Boehme, and the poetry of William Blake and Edward Carpenter, among others, and his own belief system was in effect a synthesis of the spiritual and mystical teachings of these writers. Jacob Boehme stated that when he was working he was the helpless tool of some power other than his normal surface mind, and Andersen clearly believed that some area of mental or spiritual existence, of immensely heightened perception, exists beyond and above man's surface personality and mind.
His concept of Reality as explained in his various books is very much inline with New Thought teachings: "Universal Mind is a vast and all-encompassing mental and spiritual being in whom all things and events exist. The principal quality of this Mind is that it is just one, infinite in size, eternal in scope, and nothing exists outside It. It is an enormous sea of consciousness, pervading all, supporting all, and individual consciousness grows out of It. All things are made from It; It is rock, sea, bird, beast, man. All things in their true essence, then, are mental, or spiritual, and the rock itself is not a rock at all but merely an example of enclosed or restricted consciousness. Awareness is in the rock. Universal Mind is there." (The Secret of Secrets, 1958.)
An articulate spokesman for mystical patriotism — the spiritual meaning of America — he was an unforgettable lecturer; and his insights into ecology led to the founding of his Atlantis University in Newport, Oregon, from where he taught his own brand of mysticism.
He published under the names U.S. Andersen and Uell S. Andersen.
He wrote the screenplay for the movie “The Charlatans.”
His short story Turn Ever so Quickly was included in Houghton Mifflin's anthology The Best American Short Stories of 1963.
Born in the USA of Norwegian parentage, U. S. Andersen developed his inspiring, dynamic philosophy during a very active life. He learned about the psychology of winning when he was a football great. In World War II he served as a Naval officer and in the heat of battle learned that evil is the great illusion and that sin is error. It was in Mary Baker Eddy's book "Science and Health" that he first glimpsed these great truths, and he later quoted from her book in some of his own metaphysical writings. In later years as a successful Los Angeles businessman, he learned that the secret of success is to create rather than to compete.
As well as the Christian Science writings of Mary Baker Eddy, Andersen also studied the mystical teachings and philosophies of Emmanuel Swedenborg, of the American "sleeping prophet", Edgar Cayce, of the celebrated Scottish spiritualist Daniel Dunglas Home, of philosopher Jacob Boehme, and the poetry of William Blake and Edward Carpenter, among others, and his own belief system was in effect a synthesis of the spiritual and mystical teachings of these writers. Jacob Boehme stated that when he was working he was the helpless tool of some power other than his normal surface mind, and Andersen clearly believed that some area of mental or spiritual existence, of immensely heightened perception, exists beyond and above man's surface personality and mind.
His concept of Reality as explained in his various books is very much inline with New Thought teachings: "Universal Mind is a vast and all-encompassing mental and spiritual being in whom all things and events exist. The principal quality of this Mind is that it is just one, infinite in size, eternal in scope, and nothing exists outside It. It is an enormous sea of consciousness, pervading all, supporting all, and individual consciousness grows out of It. All things are made from It; It is rock, sea, bird, beast, man. All things in their true essence, then, are mental, or spiritual, and the rock itself is not a rock at all but merely an example of enclosed or restricted consciousness. Awareness is in the rock. Universal Mind is there." (The Secret of Secrets, 1958.)
An articulate spokesman for mystical patriotism — the spiritual meaning of America — he was an unforgettable lecturer; and his insights into ecology led to the founding of his Atlantis University in Newport, Oregon, from where he taught his own brand of mysticism.
He published under the names U.S. Andersen and Uell S. Andersen.
He wrote the screenplay for the movie “The Charlatans.”
His short story Turn Ever so Quickly was included in Houghton Mifflin's anthology The Best American Short Stories of 1963.
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January 10, 2013
As I was perusing the book store, I found this book among a heap of self-help books on display. I remember reading the back of it and how it said, in particularly striking fashion, that things aren't as problematic I might have been led to believe, more or less, and how easy that was to conceptualize. I bought this book with no real urgency at the low price of one dollar. I thought to myself 'What do I have to lose? Just a dollar and the book will change my life?! Can't beat a deal like that!'
Afterwards, of course, I went home and tucked the book away to be read at some indeterminate date. It sat and sat, like many books that I've bought over the years.
Then, life happened. I was going through a hard time, filled with questions, learning about who I was, or simply put, I was a twenty-five year old young man. I picked up and dusted off this book in a way that was even more random than its purchase and started reading. At that time, I hadn't read a book in years but this book basically read itself to me. It felt like this guy, Uell Anderson, was sitting with me and just dropping wisdom bombs. The book helped me to be more confident in being myself and it also encouraged me to quit making excuses.
I felt more and more grounded as I read this book. The author helped me a lot, in an old school kind of way. It was just there for me to discover and somehow I did just that when I needed to most.
Matt Damon.
Afterwards, of course, I went home and tucked the book away to be read at some indeterminate date. It sat and sat, like many books that I've bought over the years.
Then, life happened. I was going through a hard time, filled with questions, learning about who I was, or simply put, I was a twenty-five year old young man. I picked up and dusted off this book in a way that was even more random than its purchase and started reading. At that time, I hadn't read a book in years but this book basically read itself to me. It felt like this guy, Uell Anderson, was sitting with me and just dropping wisdom bombs. The book helped me to be more confident in being myself and it also encouraged me to quit making excuses.
I felt more and more grounded as I read this book. The author helped me a lot, in an old school kind of way. It was just there for me to discover and somehow I did just that when I needed to most.
Matt Damon.
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