Suffering wasn't created by a perverse creator God. It has evolved on the biological level of reality to show us that something is wrong and that has evolved into psychological suffering. The more we can understand the causes of suffering the more we can overcome it, without succumbing to the common spiritual solution of detached withdrawal.

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I am the author of 35 books, translated into 15 languages, including a Sunday Times bestseller and Daily Telegraph 'Book of the Year’. For some inexplicable reason I was included in ‘The 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People’ lists in Watkins Magazine for 2021 and 2022.