The Principle of Gift

By Laurie Sones

This work brings to light a major functioning principle of life and explains how the individual can enjoy it in his day-to-day existence. It simultaneously establishes creativity as the fundamental tool for us all to use. 'The Principle of Gift' is a 2-3 hour read that simplifies universal concepts yet maintains a challenge for the reader.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Laurie Sones
• Release date: Dec 6, 2010
• ISBN: 9781458040008

Laurie Sones

Laurie Sones was born in Essex, UK in 1950. His Christian upbringing coupled with a love of music led him to become a leading church choirboy. But this spiritual side was brought into sharp question when his mother, so much the driving force in his life, died before he had yet reached 18 years old. Laurie began a quest for wider philosophical and spiritual answers. Study has concentrated on two distinct areas: philosophy and healing. His first work, A Pocketful of Reasoning, illustrates not just depth and breadth of philosophical study but a capacity for practical suggestions the individual could follow. It represents over 40 years of ongoing experience, work and deliberation with the subject matter. The Principle of Gift, his second work, majors on creativity and the application of its fundamental principles for use in the lives of ordinary people. It also serves as a much shortened and simplified version of its predecessor with some common usage of material. 'Healing You: The New Keys' on the subject of self-healing is the author's third publication. The fourth, 'You Can Heal Yourself : The Seven Day Healing Programme', tackles the full practical side of self-healing and lays out a programme of exercises. The fifth work 'The Principle of Gift II: And When I Die?' reconnects to the original 'The Principle of Gift' concepts and deals directly with death and what may exist beyond it. Two more books are already in various stages of development. The aim is to produce a series of concise works (2/3 hour reads) under the broad umbrella of 'Realign Your Thinking, Realign Your Life'. The author welcomes contact from readers. ("There is always more for each of us to learn. The journey is never complete"). Laurie Sones is a qualified advanced hypnotherapist.

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THE PRINCIPLE OF GIFT

(Realign Your Thinking, Realign Your Life)

LAURIE SONES

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Copyright 2010 Laurie Sones

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

Chapter 1 - What is the Universe about?

Chapter 2- And Man?

Chapter 3 - The Principle of Gift

Chapter 4 - New Thoughts on Old Subjects

Chapter 5 - Conclusion

References and Notes

About The Author

FOREWORD

In this deliberately short work I attempt to show why creativity is the critical factor for individuals in their lives, and I introduce and explain a crucial fundamental of the universe attached to the concept. That fundamental I have called The Principle of Gift. In order to simplify things I will be making quantum leaps in thinking. Should the reader require a greater step-by-step logic then this can be found in my original more in-depth work, A Pocketful of Reasoning.

CHAPTER 1. WHAT IS THE UNIVERSE ABOUT?

I like Stephen Hawking. Who doesn’t? He is the lovable academic, a great scientist, a visionary with a sense of humour. He is also something of a hero given his achievements in light of physical limitation. In the early 1980’s Hawking stated, I think there are clearly religious implications whenever you start to discuss the origins of the universe.(1) The implication there could be a sort of God the Creator behind universe construction was a big thing for a scientist to say. Maybe too bigger a thing, as in 2010, Hawking, in his more recent book The Grand Design,(2) seemed to revoke the previous opinion, stating that spontaneous creation appeared to be the impulse for universal existence. Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going. So even the brilliant Hawking, it seems, can be torn when confronting the dilemma all of us face when reflecting on how our universe came about. Yet we do need answers on this subject in order to fathom things about ourselves. Leading off from questions about the universe and its formation are the big questions for the individual of what we are and what we are doing here.

The fact is that universal creation theory has always been trapped between the two arguments. On one side there is the God/Creator theory, on the other the Spontaneous or continuous existence. Those in favour of a God argue it simply doesn’t make sense that the universe can just create itself or just happen to be there. There would need to be some sort of creative impulse to kick things off. They would ask Hawking exactly where he thought gravity came from. Those on the other side of the fence reply that if there was a God then who created Him? In the end we are forced to choose between these two arguments neither of which can be proved right or wrong. Selection of either is nothing more than a belief.

I am on the God/Creator side of things and there is a reason for that. Purpose.Unlike Stephen Hawking 2010, I simply cannot accept that the universe with its extraordinary diversity and beauty could just appear out of nothing or just be there, all with no reason whatsoever. It makes much more sense to have a universe created, provided we can identify a