Gober - An End to Upside Down Living

Praise for An End to
Upside Down Living

Mark Gobers first book, An End to Upside Down Thinking , provided clear presentation of the emerging scientific revolution surrounding the mind-brain connection and its world-changing implications for more fully understanding reality. In this absolutely essential sequel, he offers extraordinarily rich insights and practical applications stemming from these advanced ideas supported by deep conceptual background. This remarkable series energizes a profound revolution in how we can live more authentic and purposeful lives, enriching our individual and collective experience beyond imagination. Highly recommended!

Eben Alexander, MD , neurosurgeon and author of Living in a Mindful Universe, Proof of Heaven , and The Map of Heaven

In An End to Upside Down Living , a follow-up to his important An End to Upside Down Thinking , author Mark Gober turns his attention from thinking to actual living. How does one put these vital ideas into practice? What difference do they make in ones life? How did he, himself, accomplish thisand why are these steps necessary for our survival as a species? This is no clever iconoclastic outburst, but a deeply sane, honest, and vital handbook for survival. We ignore Gobers voice at our own risk.

Larry Dossey, MD , Author: One Mind: Why Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters

[Gober] takes the upside down world of business and of modern life in general, and puts them back on sound and sane feet. Worth reading and taking to heart!

Dr. Ervin Laszlo , Nobel Peace Prize nominee and systems theorist

Knowledge based on faulty assumptions is necessarily flawed (geocentric astronomy, medicine before germ theory, physics before Newton and Einstein). If they consider consciousness at all, modern sciences assume that it is an epiphenomenon of brain functioning. If, as Mark Gober convincingly argues, consciousness is the foundation of the universe, then it is the foundation of all fields of knowledge, as well as their applications. Yet, aside from a few outliers, no modern discipline recognizes this. Consequently, our baseless quest for understanding has brought us great benefits but also great harm and possible extinction. If consciousness is fundamental, then understanding it and harnessing its full potential will be humanitys greatest breakthrough. This, therefore, may be one of the most important books youll ever read.

Rick Archer , host of Buddha at the Gas Pump

This book is an easy and enjoyable read, which is saying something given that it addresses most of the major mysteries of human existence and the nature of reality! Its a book that is thought-provoking, inspirational, and down-to-earth all at once. Whether you digest it slowly, reflecting on the premises made in each chapter one at a time, or devour it in one sitting, its sure to shift your perspective and help to calibrate how you choose to view the world, and in turn, how you choose to live.

Cassandra Vieten, PhD , Senior Fellow and Past President,
Institute of Noetic Sciences; and Scholar-in-Residence, Arthur C.
Clarke Center for Human Imagination, University of California, San Diego

For spiritual travelers, Mark Gobers newest book is like getting a ticket for an evolutionary soul journey to the infinite field of unified awareness! Readers become true seekers, as they soon discover what they thought they know, may not be their own truth anymore. They learn about unknowns and then realize that there are even more unknown unknowns on this trip through life. I found this an enlightening and intelligent presentation that fully supports my own One Consciousness experiences.

William Rev. Bill McDonald Jr ., Author: Warrior: A Spiritual Odyssey and Alchemy of a Warriors Heart ; award winning poet and a three-time near-death experiencer

Also by Mark Gober

AN END TO UPSIDE DOWN THINKING

Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life

Copyright 2020 by Mark Gober

www.markgober.com

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

ISBN-13: 978-1-949001-04-4 print edition

ISBN-13: 978-1-949001-05-1 ebook edition

ISBN-13: 978-1-949001-11-2 audiobook edition

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To those in search of Truth. And those aspiring to live in accordance with it .

We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

SETTING OUR COMPASS

I have a simple but huge question for you:

What is the overall intention of your life?

Think about that for a few moments.

While youre thinking about the answer, Ill give more context. Another way of phrasing it is: What is the orientation that fundamentally drives all of your lifes values, priorities, and decisions; and ultimately, what you do in the world?

How we intend to live is the essential guiding force behind the life we do live. The direction in which we orient our compass determines where we might end up.

Imagine two boats. They start off at the same dock, but they orient their respective compasses a mere one degree differently. In the first few minutes of sailing, the boats are pretty close to each other. After a few hours, theyre farther apart. The distance grows significantly as time goes on, until the two boats are sailing in completely different oceans. The initial, seemingly small, difference ultimately results in vastly different trajectories.

Now lets apply that metaphor to life. The compass driving our own lives needs to be finely tuned in order to have a chance at achieving our desired outcomes. Even tiny tweaks in our orientation can push us toward a very different life. And moreover, big changes in our orientation can result in massive changes in our lives.

The purpose of this book is to explore, with precision, where we should set our lifes compass. What do I mean by should? I mean that Im looking for an orientation that most closely aligns with the true nature of reality. In other words, this exercise requires having a perspective on what life is, who and what we are, what matters, and why. Our orientation is set on the basis of those foundational beliefs.

My research has led me to reason that our collective orientation, as a civilization, is completely off the mark due to a deep scientific misunderstanding of reality. We arent just one degree off, either. We arent 45 or 90 degrees off. Were closer to 180 degrees off.

It all boils down to the following idea, which well explore soon in detail: The overarching belief in separationrather than interconnectivityis leading to misguided priorities and decisions across the globe . Virtually all of the worlds countless problems can be linked back to this misdirected compass. The increasingly disturbing external world is a mirror of our combined internal compasses. And so, our collective boat has veered into lethal waters. For this reason, Ive written each word of this book with a genuine sense of urgency.

Now you might understand more viscerally why I devoted an entire book, An End to Upside Down Thinking (2018); and a podcast series, Where Is My Mind? (2019), to correcting the way we scientifically view reality. In my own life, a fundamental shift in thinking about reality has led to drastic, positive changes in practical living .