Rik Schnabel
That's a great question and coincidentally one that I recently asked myself that has led me to my next book (I just love how the Universe works). It will be my first book of fiction and it will start with a real account from my life from back in the year 2000.
I used to play golf with strangers because I believed I was socially inept. I thought playing with people I didn't know would improve my socialisation skills.
One day, a strange gentleman joined my group. It consisted of two real straight up, practical Aussie tradies who were friends and myself. I cannot recall his name, but he was the strangest of us all. He spoke about a world that none of us were familiar. By the time we reached the fourth hole the other two guys were staying as far away from him as possible. Though I couldn't get enough of him. He spoke about how our thoughts create things and that the worlds that we had created in our minds were fabricated by our biases. I somehow knew it was truth, but had no way of confirming it. You know those moments when you are in the presence of something truly profound?
This one event led me on a path to a great deal of study. I studied metaphysics, religions, psychology and eventually learned the tools to change my mind which was found in neuro linguistic programming (NLP). My metaphysical friend on the golf course was right. Our worlds are an illusion, just as my world in 2000 incarcerated me until I changed my mind and changed my life.
Because of that one event: I now live where I want to live; do what I want to do; and create what I want to create; and I so want the world to experience it too - and this has become my quest.
So thank you for your question :)
I used to play golf with strangers because I believed I was socially inept. I thought playing with people I didn't know would improve my socialisation skills.
One day, a strange gentleman joined my group. It consisted of two real straight up, practical Aussie tradies who were friends and myself. I cannot recall his name, but he was the strangest of us all. He spoke about a world that none of us were familiar. By the time we reached the fourth hole the other two guys were staying as far away from him as possible. Though I couldn't get enough of him. He spoke about how our thoughts create things and that the worlds that we had created in our minds were fabricated by our biases. I somehow knew it was truth, but had no way of confirming it. You know those moments when you are in the presence of something truly profound?
This one event led me on a path to a great deal of study. I studied metaphysics, religions, psychology and eventually learned the tools to change my mind which was found in neuro linguistic programming (NLP). My metaphysical friend on the golf course was right. Our worlds are an illusion, just as my world in 2000 incarcerated me until I changed my mind and changed my life.
Because of that one event: I now live where I want to live; do what I want to do; and create what I want to create; and I so want the world to experience it too - and this has become my quest.
So thank you for your question :)
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