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    Revelations From Outside The Box
    Revelations From Outside The Box
    Revelations From Outside The Box
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    Revelations From Outside The Box

    By Peter Schmedding

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    How often do we wish we could say what we really feel in our guts? Do we ever feel free from restraints that stifle our true emotions and thoughts into oblivion? How long will we remain in denial of the effects of our evermore toxic world? Revelations from Outside the Box brings into our awareness the unknown traps that secretly compromise our view of reality, undermine our conversations and ever so often lead to disagreements and hostility. This book questions what we perceive and accept as reality. Relating a string of events that were observed in real life report factors, although they are the causes of untold, needless suffering, that we commonly ignore. In the introduction to Revelations from Outside the Box we already get a glance of what the book is trying to tell us. An episode shows how a family of three people live in the same household and, by closer examination, in the way they see each other are miles apart. It also suggests how a simple adjustment not only prevents such estrangement but rather fosters a sound and productive relationship, in this case, between father and son. Beyond the primary purpose this book describes certain arcane happenings of the human mind. It asks the question, could it be that there is a wellspring of wisdom that could benefit us all? A hypothetical time travel over a couple of hundreds of years gives us yet more food for us thinking outside the box.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherReadOnTime BV
    Release dateApr 29, 2015
    ISBN9781742845203
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      Revelations From Outside The Box - Peter Schmedding

      Revelations

      From

      Outside The Box

      A Controversial Look at the

      Behaviour of our Planet’s

      Human Beings

      Peter H Schmedding

      Revelations From Outside The Box

      Copyright © 2015 Peter H Schmedding

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Smashwords Edition

      The information, views, opinions and visuals expressed in this publication are solely those of the author(s) and do not reflect those of the publisher. The publisher disclaims any liabilities or responsibilities whatsoever for any damages, libel or liabilities arising directly or indirectly from the contents of this publication.

      A copy of this publication can be found in the National Library of Australia.

      ISBN:  978-1-742845-20-3 (pbk.)

      Published by Book Pal

      www.bookpal.com.au

      I dedicate this book to two people who helped me to become assimilated into a new land and a new life. I was not been able to express my gratitude at the time it was due. Now these men have long passed away, and I mention their names as a lasting tribute.

      Jack Tuite

      Snow Standford.

      "Our Unconscious Mind exerts a profound influence:

      shaping decisions, molding behavior –

      and running our lives."

      Scientific American, Jan 2014

      Acknowledgement

      My inspiration, not so much in regard to writing, but rather in augmenting my attitudes and beliefs came mostly from books. In my childhood, the works of German poet Gorch Fock inspired me to put pen to paper. Fock was killed in action in 1916 in World War One.

      Later in life I admired the writings of authors such as Dale Carnegie, Maxwell Maltz, Ainslie Meares and Carl Rogers.

      More recently I appreciate the suggestions by Mary van de Graaff.

      Special thanks to the editor of this book, Wendy Smith of Jewel See Editing, Brisbane.

      Contents

      Prologue

      Introduction

      Chapter 1. The Bottom of the Iceberg

      A ray of wisdom in the night

      An unexpected encounter

      Death by mind power

      Chapter 2. At Your Age?

      Chapter 3. The King who Fled to Holland

      Chapter 4. A Composer in Hiding

      Chapter 5. Kids on Wheels

      Chapter 6. It’s All in the Mind

      Meat in a sandwich

      Punishment gone wrong

      No radio for me!

      Chapter 7. How to Create a Pedophile

      Chapter 8. A Thoroughly Disturbed Kid

      Chapter 9. Totally Outside the Box

      Chapter 10. … and I was marked for life

      Chapter 11. Child in a Cage

      Chapter 12. Metaphors

      Chapter 13. Constructing a Metaphor

      Chapter 14. War

      Chapter 15. Into the Unknown

      Burning the midnight oil

      In enemy country

      A message from beyond the grave

      Are our souls confined between our two ears?

      Pets

      Help from beyond the grave?

      ESP between mother and son

      The future

      Chapter 16. Utopia

      Chapter 17. Mankind’s Future – is there a Silver Lining?

      The Galileos of our time

      Closing thoughts

      Prologue

      While travelling interstate I found myself inside a crowded shopping mall. Upon spotting a distressed girl of three to four years old, I knelt to her level and asked if she had lost her mummy. Her face expressed Yes. I told her that, when I was a little boy I got lost once and I was afraid. So we established eye contact. I suggested I would lift her up on my shoulders so she would be taller than all the grown-ups around and surely find her mother soon. A minute later her mother appeared. She snatched the child from me in a way that made me wonder if she would have acted in any other way had I tried to grab her handbag. Thank you very much, she exclaimed. Before she disappeared in the crowd I noticed the little girl’s eyes. They now expressed confusion and fear.

      This story is taken from my 1984 publication, ‘A Bridge Across The Generation Gap’.

      How has our society changed during the intervening years? Before you board an airplane, you must first be examined for any concealed weapon or explosives on your body. Cyber crime is a constant thread. Opening an email attachment from an unknown source puts your computer at risk. The fear of pedophilia has poisoned the mental atmosphere of our society. Today, I would not dare approach the little girl. With suspicion and mistrust appearing in all areas of life, how much further will this trend go?

      Will there ever be a return to a more trusting society?

      Introduction

      How real is our reality?

      As we go through our lives we perceive the world outside ourselves with our senses. Although it seems real to us, what we are faced with is only a fraction of a vastly greater and different reality ‘out there’. We modify. We interpret. We mind-read, and we magnify or minimise certain facts as they are dictated by our internal filters. The end result finally presents itself to us as reality. We accept it as truth. We believe it.

      In this book is the above arguments will be supported via accounts of a variety of real-life events. It will bring into conscious awareness the so commonly negative human interactions and show how they can cause untold suffering that ranges from family breakdown all the way up to international conflicts that sacrifice the lives of millions. All this is due to obstinate and fanatical thinking, ignoring the deeper issues and ignoring the big picture. The examples in this book suggest solutions.

      The Human Mind

      Unlike a novel containing a plot and various life events, this book contains a selection of stories about the functions of the mind, observed from different perspectives. Many of the examples demonstrate how language ever so often misleads us, resulting in disagreements and hostility. In many cases the subject matter itself is not actually in dispute. Rather, the wrong words are used or perhaps the words chosen have a different meaning to different people and therefore do not communicate the intended message of the speaker. This practice of miscommunication seems to have infiltrated into human societies without anyone becoming aware of the conflict and suffering it causes.

      A considerable part of this book deals with the developing minds of children. If a future more effective and productive world is to be created, it is the child who will be the catalyst to achieve this. This idea is supported by a report on Sustainable Development Goals being prepared for the UN Secretary General which states: Unless Early Child Development is addressed effectively in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, countries will be locked into poverty, and sustainable development will not be achieved.

      One of mankind’s greatest sins is the neglect of millions of the next generation. What is needed in the world is not more people but higher quality people. That begins not at birth but at conception. After the child is born we continue its development on the foundation that is laid down from the first trimester. This topic is beyond the scope of this book, although some hints are mentioned in chapter 16.

      How this ideology began

      As a child of seven I was watching a woman talking to an official in a welfare office. I saw it written all over the man’s face: What is the point you wish to make? Undeterred by the man’s attempts to clarify the issue, the woman continued to talk. Then, convinced that she had given the man a piece of her mind, she headed home, and she was happy.

      It is now eighty years ago since that observation triggered an interest that has followed me throughout my life. Habitually I observed people as they interacted. I collected what appeared to be pertinent events and recorded them in my long-term memory. Time and again, it became clear to me that in human communications one single process repeats itself over and over. A gap in communication that our languages are unable to bridge causes isolation, confusion and misunderstandings. It happens between people of low or high status or wisdom and extends to those who are in charge of millions. It seems to have snuck into human society without anyone realising how much this process affects our lives.

      To explain these concepts further, let us look at how the core of our personality—our belief system—is created.

      Before our critical and selective functions develop at age six or seven, millions of random fragments that we observe construct the basis of our reality. This reality is unique to us and cannot be shared by anyone else. The quality of this mental nourishment shapes our adult personality. A set of well-guided beliefs gives a person the best chance to lead a happy, satisfying life and become an asset to society. It is the misguided beliefs that slip in that create an ever-widening gap between the outer and the

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