His wonderful insights and unique perceptions can help you gain conscious awareness of the workings of your own mind.

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Premier Philosopher
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Adrian van der Meijden

.The Philosopher's Author

I suppose or suspect you won't want the usual mechanical stuff. I hold an MA honors in English, Diploma Teaching, another qualification as an optician and spent 20 years in a classroom teaching. I migrated to New Zealand from the Netherlands aged 21 and am now 70. In between I've done many other things which, reading F. Perls, "In and Out the Garbage Pail" made me smile with: yes: been there, done that.

To me that is the uninteresting part of my life. All stuff needed to live and earn a living. Even as a child I was an unusual child. Waking up every morning I would make contact with the body, my name, where I lived and was supposed to do. Like everybody else I though that happened to everybody until, as an adult, I learnt better. I did not talk but thought a lot until around age eighteen odd and made up for that since then. By around 25 I got somewhat fed up with doing things that were 'not me' and not able to change this. That was all well before the New Age and all that stuff turned popular.

Because I had to earn a living, run a family and other routine things I left what one may call one's alternative Self development on the backburner and did not seriously get into this until I retired age fifty odd. Then, dropping all that work stuff from my mind other things came forward, insight into being psychic, being able to re-script my psyche or ego in seconds, having a mystical experience and beginning to think or have happen more unusual things. People wandered into my ken and I discovered I could help them change, at the time called counselling. Other things happened too, some weird at the time but by now more accepted.

I was also intrigued since a child in how people could be all so the same when they were not. This imploded into an insight that resulted in my book, which took many years to fill out in full. It amounts to the question of: How do we keep order in our minds? This I figured out, with no help from others or other books, concerns an imprint or overlay or mapping grid imposed on our mind by culture and society. This gimmick is age old and derives from a major change in mankind from a hominid to human or humanoid and the invention of a system of grammar of representation and communication. It can be called an Art of Memory by which lots of information, now called knowledge, could be stuffed between the ears before writing turned up. Thing is we still use it today but it has gone unconscious.

It is rather useful in many ways to know how this works. Firstly it can help us find and locate our beliefs, feelings, ideas we attach to our experience. In a second place it can help us be less impressed and more aware of how we know what we know. Third, and more importantly, by learning how our conscious mind is maintained, we can more easily find things in our unconscious and whole mind. It also helps us think faster, assess situations quicker and more completely, which the conscious mind does not. Last, but not all, it enables us to think logically, creatively and in several other ways as it opens up a synaesthethic ability of our mind to handle any and all of our senses and we can switch between them, so our dependency on words lessens. This frees us better from the binds society imposes us.

This is not a simple book, though it is written simply. Don't read it like you would any other book, by making earnest efforts to understand it. Simply enjoy reading it and let the book do its work on you. Tackle as much or as little of it as you can at a time. It is written and designed to soak into the unconscious, which maintains and updates this gimmick anyhow. What it is all about can come to you immediately, on reflection, which takes time, and as explained, as done in the book. Think of it more as a piece of entertainment than something to be learnt.

Gain wonderful insights into your own mind by purchasing an e-mail version of
Adrian's book 'The Glue and Solvent of the Universe' for $79NZ ($45US).
Adrian can be reached by writing A. F. van der Meijden, Meremere RD2, Mercer, New Zealand,
or by phone: 064 09 233 6620 or email adrf -at - kol.co.nz.