Hugh Manitee's Book of Memes: Change the World - Write a Meme for this Book!

By Jake Lyron

Hugh Manitee's Book of Memes is a living ebook which the audience can write. Jake Lyron's award winning book "The Shrink from Planet Zob: Psychiatry for a mad World" told the story of the alien psychiatrist who came to Earth to share his wisdom with Hugh Manitee, the world's most ordinary Homo sapiens. That encounter led to Hugh's book of memes, a collection of thought provoking essays by other Homo sapiens from around the world - the 'memes'. The memes will spread virally around the Internet and help us to live better lives - for relationships, the environment, for peace, to put an end to poverty, to protect animals, find unity of beliefs, to create honour in politics and balance in the media. Any aspect of life where there is scope for improvement is relevant to the book. So share your own wisdom in Hugh Manitee's Book of Memes - download the book, read the memes, and then send in your own meme through the dedicated website. "Lyron has dreamed up an inspiring way to improve our lot in this world - sharing memes which promote quality of life. His book and the associated website deserve to spread far and wide around our beautiful planet." - Sir Ranulph Fiennes, 'the world's greatest living explorer.'

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jake Lyron
• Release date: Nov 20, 2012
• ISBN: 9780955740152

Jake Lyron

Jake is an activist for a sane world. His book "The Shrink from Planet Zob: Psychiatry for a Mad World" earned him a Mental Health Hero Award from leading mental health organisations for his contribution to the field. He publishes books which illuminate, creating clarity on reality expounding what Jake calls 'the spirituality of reality', a spirituality which makes sense from a scientific as well as a spiritual perspective. To this end he has also written about his new theory of the Holy Grail symbol in his book "The Holy Grail's Lost Meaning: Symbol of Receptiveness to Truth and Love". Google his author name to find all of the books he has published or find them on this, his Smashwords profile page.

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Hugh Manitee’s Book of Memes:

Change the World – Write a Meme for this Book

Smashwords Edition

Edited by Jake Lyron

"Jake Lyron has dreamt up an inspiring new way to improve our lot on this world – spreading memes which promote quality of life. His book and the associated website deserve to spread far and wide around our beautiful planet."

– Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE

Copyright © 2012 Jake Lyron. You may copy this ebook*

* This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported Licence. See How You Can Contribute to this Ebook and How You Can Re-Publish and Share the Content of this Ebook for an explanation of how you can contribute to and re-publish this ebook. This copy is Update 1; December 2012.

Contents

Foreword by Hugh Manitee, The World’s Most Ordinary Homo Sapiens.

How You Can Contribute to this Ebook.

How You Can Re-Publish and Share the Content of this Ebook.

The Memes.

Your Life Has Started Already – Be Quick, or You’ll Miss the Show! - Dr Kate Hamilton-West; chartered psychologist.

You Live Only Once, So Try to Leave the Best Possible Life-Print! - Dr Christos Mitsakis; chartered psychologist, writer.

What Doesn’t Kill Me, Makes Me Stronger. - Professor Stephen Joseph; psychologist in health and social care.

Learn a Language and Laugh! - Jimmy Tarbuck OBE; comedian, TV presenter, actor.

Act Now. - Andy Atkins; Executive Director Friends of the Earth

Eternity Takes Time. - Professor Peter Cave; philosopher, author, Chair of the Humanist Philosophers of Great Britain.

Don’t Aim to eat Your Own Brain. - Dr Simon Hailwood; philosopher

We Need to Wean Ourselves off the Crazy Concept that Economic Growth by Consumerism is Good for the World. - Elaine Morgan OBE; writer, evolutionary anthropologist.

We are Caretakers, not Owners of this Planet. - Carol Drinkwater; actress, writer, film-maker.

We Are All Related; in Fact, We Are All Africans. - Professor Alan Barnard FBA; Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa.

Be a HERO, Create a HERO! - Dr Sheron Burns; early child educator and child advocate.

The Wonder of Nature Makes Such an Arrogant Species Seem so Small. - Emma Milne; television vet, author and animal advocate.

We Need Only Look at the Reflection in our Child’s Eyes to Know How to Respond. - Dr Andrea Pickering; clinical psychologist and writer.

Before Changing ‘They’, First Change ‘I’. - Dr Enid Alston; chartered psychologist.

Although the World Sometimes Seems Full of Suffering, it is Also Full of the Overcoming of it. - Georgina Corkett; writer.

Richness is Found in Kindness and Good Character. - Shabana Bakhsh; actress and writer.

Man's True Moral Test Consists of its Attitude Towards Those Who are at its Mercy: Animals. - Professor David E. Cooper; philosopher, author and secretary of the charity Project Sri Lanka

Move Your Body to Move Your Spirit. - Tina Baker; winner of British TV’s Celebrity Fit Club, writer, broadcaster and fitness instructor.

Gardens and Gardening Positively Affect the Health of a Nation. - Wayne Hemingway MBE; designer.

The Better is the Enemy of the Good. - Professor Michael Hauskeller; philosopher.

Death Control without Birth Control is Unsustainable - Stop at Two Children. - Roger Martin; chair of the campaign group Population Matters.

Pursue Those Things That are Valuable to You: Don’t Go Looking for Objective Meaning. - Dr Benjamin L Curtis; philosopher.

2018: The Google Brain Implant Spells Death of Pub Quiz. - Tim Bentinck; actor.

Create a Happy Workplace for a Healthy, Productive Workforce. - Professor Cary L. Cooper CBE; psychologist.

Respecting People Means Respecting Things. - Professor Daniel Miller; anthropologist.

Give Priority to Children’s Welfare. - Dr Michael Heap; clinical forensic psychologist.

One’s Reach Should Exceed One’s Grasp. - Dr Martin Warner; philosopher.

To Make the World a Better Place, First Ask Honestly How Good You Are at Changing Things. - Dr Edmund Chattoe-Brown; sociologist.

We May be Old, We May Have Dementia but We are Still a Husband, a Wife, a Father, a Mother, We Still Love and we Still Need Love, So Please Listen with Patience. - Kay Hamilton; The Dowager Duchess of Hamilton, fundraiser.

Excluding Troubled and Troublesome Children from Schools Damages our Most Vulnerable Children. - Dr Christopher Arnold; chartered psychologist and author.

Focusing on ‘Will Do’ Rather than ‘Can Do’ Makes Employment a Two-Way Exchange. - Dr Roland Tarleton; business psychologist.

Eating-Well is Part of Living-Well. - Dr Tony Milligan; philosopher and author.

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