Philip J Bradbury

My Whispering Teachers (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Short stories with power, humour and insight to help you see the world in a quite different way - a simpler, more coherent and natural way.

What do you remember from childhood? The many facts that become obsolete each year or the stories prose, poetic and lyrical you were told?
My friend, Faisal, is Somalian and he tells me there is no written Somali language. Their history, rituals and roots are written on the tongues of the elders and passed down the hundreds of generations by verbal stories. We who write facts down, forget what happened last week while those with just stories never forget.
Stories are how we remember Truth for, while "truths" of scientists change regularly, the Truths of who we are and how we serve each other never change. Goodness and mercy are ever the same as are the battles of good and evil, the anguish and triumph of humans and simple fallibility and strength we have.
The stories here are the stories of old with refreshing new garb, with unique wit, insight and surprise endings.
These are the stories of you and me what we are and what we can be and they can be passed down to your grandchildren so they remember who they are and who you were.
Enjoy!

Without stories our lives would be dry, non-fictional decrepitudes; dusty, withered data-existences subject to the changing whims of those who think they know and seldom do. In fact, without stories, there would be no life, for even facts are a legend, a tale.

For example, inoculations cured some people from some diseases so there arose the fable that all inoculations cure all diseases, despite the fact that some maim and kill people. Another fable that masquerades as truth or fact is about fluoride. Alcoa, the largest aluminium manufacturer in the world, was facing a $40 million law suit, in 1939, for polluting the countryside with the most toxic element known to man ... fluoride. They "defended" that suit by establishing a scientific institute and, quickly and magically, "discovered that fluoride was good for teeth".

Such is our desire to believe in stories, we continue to tell the same old lie, eighty years later. Whether it's about the world being flat, the planets flying round the earth, Jesus being a blonde pale-face or global warming, all facts are simply opinions, something to be believed in long after they're proven wrong. Opinions are like bum holes everyone has one and few are interested in yours. Stories, on the other hand, are more honest than facts. They admit, quite blatantly, that they're a barefaced lie a moving, humorous or fascinating barefaced lie. However, they're not totally honest for, within every made-up, fictional tale, is an eternal truth that touches our hearts and minds if they're open to such truths in ways that facpinions can't, for we're what our hearts remember.

I challenge you to recall three salient facts from your least loved school subject, while knowing you'll have no trouble recalling a dozen stories or jokes from the same time. The reality is that we're story-remembering creatures and, true or not, we love to embrace, caress and polish any story that comes our way. There are the stories that arise when our egos (finances and reputations) are pricked and there are stories that arise when our egos move aside. These latter stories are not part of the game of survival but are the fecundity of life, the juice of the heart and a savouring for our taste buds. These are the stories told round the fire on balmy summer nights. Savour and enjoy!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Philip J Bradbury
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780648502104
• Artikelnr.: 55855073

Autorenporträt

I am a writer (20 books), publisher (25 books & a magazine) and teacher/trainer for 25 years accounting, business, men's groups, AIDS and personal and spiritual growth. I've also spent time with several indigenous elders and wisdom-sharers to receive information from as many perspectives as possible. The more people I've talked to, the more similarities there are in their stories. ... they all point to this moment of disruption to expose and expunge the untruths, in order to move to the next 2,400-year period of Caring, Connection and Communication. Therefore, I'm here to help you cope with the current changes so you can create your higher life in order to create the community we all long for ... and know is coming. Summary list of writing/publishing experiences: • Writer of 20 published books, • Publisher of books • Commissioning Editor for Business Books • Publisher of national magazine, • Website Editor/Writer • Columnist for magazines in four countries, • Editor for national magazine, • Reporter for weekly newspaper, • Professional freelance writer, proof-reader and editor for clients in Australia, Czech Republic, Norway, Slovenia, Germany, Romania, Arabia, Britain, Canada and America. I spent 20 years in a boring job to impress my father. I finally realised he wasn't impressed with an accountant son so I slunk sideways into business coaching and teaching and wondered why I'd avoided what I loved for so long. 20 years later, I still love teaching/coaching and have done it ever since, in different countries and in different guises: * Business coaching in NZ, UK and Australia * University lecturing in NZ and UK * Personal development workshops in NZ and Sth Africa * Grief counselling in NZ * Men's groups in NZ * AIDS workshops in Sth Africa From time to time, I played in other occupations, just because I could: * Busking * Building houses * Truck driving, reporter/photographer for a newspaper * Magazine columnist then editor * Magazine publisher * Commissioning editor of books * Writer of 20 books (to date) I've become a Jack of all trades, master of some and a Master of Change, so can help you with your change. Along the way I picked up some qualifications: * BBS Bachelor of Business [Economics & Accountancy majors] degree. * ACA Qualified Accountant. * CAT Certificate in...