Insidious

By Pete Gable

The shocking and true story of a man you have never heard of and how he designed the way you live today.

Warning! This book will seriously alter your views on who decides what you do.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pete Gable
• Release date: Nov 22, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465794697

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Insidious

By

Pete Gable

First published 2011by Pete Gable

Smashwords Edition

© Pete Gable 2011

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Marianne,

For always being there and supporting me in all of my endeavors,

whatever they are.

"It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck

in a sense of our limitations.

If we go into a

darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't

matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week,

or ten thousand years.

We turn on the light and it is illuminated."

Sharon Salzberg

Preface

This is a story of one unremarkable man who started off with no real direction in life. He studied agriculture and became a journalist. He took a remarkable person’s ideas and with them may have changed the way all of us live and behave. This quiet little man has probably had and will continue to have a profound effect on your life, your beliefs, your values and your behavior, yet today virtually nobody knows his name.

There is one single factor that binds all people on our planet, those alive and all those who have passed, it is that every one of us has spent our lives in the pursuit of happiness.

Why is it that of the 7 billion people on the planet, possibly billions of us, particularly in the developed world, are either dissatisfied with life or just plain unhappy?

Does this suggest that in our pursuit of happiness we just may have never understood what happiness is and how to achieve it?

We all know that happiness is a state of mind, so what is it about our daily life that stops us finding sustainable happiness as opposed to the pursuit of pleasure, which most of us are engaged in and which is just a short term phase?

If happiness is a state of mind then what is it in the way we think that blocks out the