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Stuart Wilde

Background information
Born	September 24, 1946 Farnham Farnham Farnham is a town in Surrey, England, within the Borough of Waverley. The town is situated some 42 miles southwest of London in the extreme west of Surrey, adjacent to the border with Hampshire... , England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
Nationality	British United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
Occupation	Writer, lecturer, essayist, humorist, scriptwriter, lyricist, music producer
Writing period	1983–present
Subject(s)	Metaphysics Metaphysics Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:... , psychology Psychology Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society... , philosophy Philosophy Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational... , spirituality Spirituality Spirituality can refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality; an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his/her being; or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live.” Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop... , xxxxx culture Culture Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions... , money Money Money is any object or record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given country or socio-economic context. The main functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange; a unit of account; a store of value; and, occasionally in the past,... , society Society A society, or a human society, is a group of people related to each other through persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtual territory, subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations... , meditation Meditation Meditation is any form of a family of practices in which practitioners train their minds or self-induce a mode of consciousness to realize some benefit.... , cognition Cognition In science, cognition refers to mental processes. These processes include attention, remembering, producing and understanding language, solving problems, and making decisions. Cognition is studied in various disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science... , ESP, consciousness Consciousness Consciousness is a term that refers to the relationship between the mind and the world with which it interacts. It has been defined as: subjectivity, awareness, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind... , quantum mechanics Quantum mechanics Quantum mechanics, also known as quantum physics or quantum theory, is a branch of physics providing a mathematical description of much of the dual particle-like and wave-like behavior and interactions of energy and matter. It departs from classical mechanics primarily at the atomic and subatomic...
Children	Sebastien Wilde
Parents	Commander James Wilde DSC, RN, Liliana Wilde
Website(s)	stuartwilde.com stuartwildeblog.com
Notable works
Miracles, Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power, The Art of Meditation, The Force, The Trick to Money is Having Some, Sixth Sense, Grace, Gaia and the End of Days

Stuart Wilde (born September 24, 1946) is a British writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

. Best known for his works on metaphysics

Metaphysics

Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:...

and consciousness

Consciousness

Consciousness is a term that refers to the relationship between the mind and the world with which it interacts. It has been defined as: subjectivity, awareness, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind...

, he is also a lecturer, essayist, humorist, scriptwriter, lyricist, and music producer. He is the author of twenty books including the popular series The Taos Quintet: Miracles, The Force, Affirmations, The Quickening, and The Trick to Money is Having Some.

Early life

Wilde was born in Farnham

Farnham

Farnham is a town in Surrey, England, within the Borough of Waverley. The town is situated some 42 miles southwest of London in the extreme west of Surrey, adjacent to the border with Hampshire...

, England. He has a twin sister, Dee Dee, who became well known in Britain for her weekly appearances on Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...

with the dance troupe Pan's People

Pan's People

Pan's People were a British TV dance troupe, who are usually associated with the BBC TV music chart show Top of the Pops.In an era before pop videos, they danced to songs whose original artists were not available to perform them live...

. He was educated at St. George’s College, Weybridge

St George's College, Weybridge

St George's College, Weybridge is an independent mixed Roman Catholic co-educational day school in Surrey, England. It had historically been an all-boys' boarding school. The first girls entered the 6th Form in the 1960s and the school decided to take girls at age 11 in 1998...

, Surrey. After his schooling he joined the English Stage Company

Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre...

in Sloane Square, London. A year later he opened a jeans business in Carnaby Street

Carnaby Street

Carnaby Street is a pedestrianised shopping street in London, United Kingdom, located in the Soho district, near Oxford Street and Regent Street. It is home to numerous fashion and lifestyle retailers, including a large number of independent fashion boutiques...

London, at the height of the Swinging Sixties where he enjoyed considerable commercial success.

Career

He studied alternative religions and Taoist philosophy

Taoism

Taoism refers to a philosophical or religious tradition in which the basic concept is to establish harmony with the Tao , which is the mechanism of everything that exists...

for five years from the age of twenty-eight, and when he was thirty-three, he emigrated to the United States of America where lived in Laguna Beach, California with his first wife Cynthia. He wrote his first book, Miracles, in 1983.

Shortly thereafter he began a career as a lecturer appearing mainly in New Thought Churches and at New Age

New Age

The New Age movement is a Western spiritual movement that developed in the second half of the 20th century. Its central precepts have been described as "drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and then infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational...

conferences. In the 1990s he toured regularly with Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra is an Indian medical doctor, public speaker, and writer on subjects such as spirituality, Ayurveda and mind-body medicine. Chopra began his career as an endocrinologist and later shifted his focus to alternative medicine. Chopra now runs his own medical center, with a focus on...

, Dr. Wayne Dyer

Wayne Dyer

Wayne Walter Dyer is an American self-help advocate, author, and lecturer.- Early life :Dyer was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Melvin Lyle and Hazel Irene Dyer and spent much of his adolescence in an orphanage on the east side of Detroit. Dr. Wayne Dyer is a 1958 graduate of Denby High School;...

and Louise Hay

Louise Hay

Louise Hay is an American motivational author, and the founder of Hay House, a publishing company. She has authored several New Thought self-help books, and is best known for her 1984 book, You Can Heal Your Life.-Biography:...

, appearing at venues such as the Sydney Entertainment Centre

Sydney Entertainment Centre

The Sydney Entertainment Centre is a multi-purpose venue, located in Haymarket, Sydney, Australia. It opened in May 1983, to replace Sydney Stadium, which had been demolished to make way for a new railway. The centre is currently owned by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, which administers...

.

Wilde’s London street slang and his comedic way of presenting self-empowerment and spiritual

Spirituality

Spirituality can refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality; an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his/her being; or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live.” Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop...

ideas have attracted a widely diverse audience. He's been called ahead of his time," 'the teacher's teacher' because of the influence he has had on other writers and lecturers in the field", provocative, poignant, controversial, funny, and his
writing "timeless". Increasingly he has become a recognized figure for progressive thought in metaphysics and the field of human potential, and is oft quoted with references to his work appearing across a wide swath of international cultural, business, and educational forums from the Kennedy Center for the Arts', interviews with American hip-hop artists and slam poets, international investment conferences, and the pages of international media such as CNET's "Top 10 List: Human Development Gurus" and The Times of Indias “Sunday Life” section.

Principal philosophy
Wilde’s principal philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

states that, while many citizens may seem to be normal, acquiescing to the status quo
Status quo
Statu quo, a commonly used form of the original Latin "statu quo" – literally "the state in which" – is a Latin term meaning the current or existing state of affairs. To maintain the status quo is to keep the things the way they presently are...

, there exists, in fact, a vast population of what he calls Fringe Dwellers whose mind and soul do not align to the constraints of life in regular society that Wilde calls Tick-Tock. Wilde believes through use of the theta state of meditation (4–7 cycles per second), humans can better control their emotional life and their bio-rhythms

Biorhythm

Biorhythm is an attempt to predict various aspects of a person's life through simple mathematical cycles. Most scientists believe that the idea has no more predictive power than raw chance, and consider the concept an example of pseudoscience.-Beliefs:...

, and begin to see visions, and that those visions and extrasensory feeling

Clairvoyance

The term clairvoyance is used to refer to the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses, a form of extra-sensory perception...

will lead to a greater balance and more freedom

Liberty

Liberty is a moral and political principle, or Right, that identifies the condition in which human beings are able to govern themselves, to behave according to their own free will, and take responsibility for their actions...

.

To that end, he emphasizes the importance of going beyond the habit of struggling, and advocates the need for financial freedom, themes stated in his books Life was Never Meant to be a Struggle (1987), The Trick to Money is Having Some (1989), and The Little Money Bible (1998).

In Affirmations (1986), Wilde laid out systems of self-talk that empower an individual to change their core beliefs. His book Sixth Sense (2000) discussed practical techniques for developing extrasensory perception. He has earned both praise and criticism for his later works which advance controversial concepts such as other dimensions, dematerialization, and Morph worlds. His most avant guard philosophy is based on the idea that Paul Dirac

Paul Dirac

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics...

’s hypothesis of parallel antiparticle

Antiparticle

Corresponding to most kinds of particles, there is an associated antiparticle with the same mass and opposite electric charge. For example, the antiparticle of the electron is the positively charged antielectron, or positron, which is produced naturally in certain types of radioactive decay.The...

worlds is, in fact, correct, and that humans adept at trance meditation can become aware of spiritual dimensions placed at 90° from them left and right—dimensions, Wilde says, that follow Hawking's theory of transverse waves of light. Wilde has acknowledged there is no empirical data to support his claim, but anecdotal evidence, gathered from more than two-thousand people whom he has taught, state they have experienced such transcendental

Transcendence (philosophy)

In philosophy, the adjective transcendental and the noun transcendence convey the basic ground concept from the word's literal meaning , of climbing or going beyond, albeit with varying connotations in its different historical and cultural stages...

90 ° perception

Perception

Perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of the environment by organizing and interpreting sensory information. All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical stimulation of the sense organs...

which has led him to conclude these worlds exist.

Wilde is a staunch supporter of peace

Peace

Peace is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility, peace also suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the...

in the world, the philosophy of live and let live

Live and Let Live

Live and let live may refer to:*An idiom expressing the modern concept that one should let others live their lives as they see fit.*Live and let live , a system of conflict avoidance used in trench warfare in World War I....

, animal rights

Animal rights

Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of non-human animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings...

and vegetarianism

Vegetarianism

Vegetarianism encompasses the practice of following plant-based diets , with or without the inclusion of dairy products or eggs, and with the exclusion of meat...

Writings and music

Stuart Wilde is a prolific writer, with twenty of his books published to date. They appear in more than fifteen foreign languages, with a total of ninety-five different books and audio works in circulation.

He executive produced and was the lyricist

Lyricist

A lyricist is a songwriter who specializes in lyrics. A singer who writes the lyrics to songs is a singer-lyricist. This differentiates from a singer-composer, who composes the song's melody.-Collaboration:...

on the music album Voice of the Feminine Spirit
Cecilia (Norwegian singer)
Cecilia is a Classical crossover singer, originally from Norway, who is known for her rendering of "Amazing Grace". She has released 7 albums, 2 via Universal Music, and performed worldwide, selling several hundred thousand albums with virtually no mainstream publicity.- Early life :Cecilia grew up...

, which sold several hundred-thousand copies. He later produced and was the lyricist on two albums of Celtic music, Voice of the Celtic Myth (1997), and Creation (1999), and wrote the book and libretto
Libretto
A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...

for Tim Wheater’s oratorio
Oratorio
An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias...

Heartland (1995). In 2010, his collaboration with Richard Tyler produced the ambient release The Mystery of the Sacred O, an homage "to the earth spirit Gaia and the masculine (Ka), and feminine (Om) creative energies of the Universe."

Books

Miracles, (Carlsbad: Hay House, 1983), ISBN 978-1-4019-1790-6, 1-56170-829-1 (PB Rev)

The Force, (Carlsbad: Hay House, 1984), ISBN 978-1-56170-166-7, 1-56170-166-1 (PB)

Affirmations, (Carlsbad: Hay House, 1986), ISBN 978-1-56170-167-4, 1-56170-167-X (PB), ISBN 978-0-930603-02-1 (HC)

Life Was Never Meant to Be a Struggle, (Carlsbad: Hay House, 1987), ISBN 978-1-56170-829-1 (PB)

The Quickening, (Carlsbad: Hay House, 1988), ISBN 978-1-56170-165-0 (PB)

The Trick to Money is Having Some, (Carlsbad: Hay House, 1989), ISBN 978-1-56170-168-1, 1-56170-168-8 (PB)

The Secrets of Life, (Carlsbad: Hay House, 1990) ISBN 978-1-4019-0736-5, 1-4019-0736-9 (PB)

Whispering Winds of Change: Perceptions of a New World, (Carlsbad: Hay House 1993), ISBN 978-1-56170-160-5, 1-56170-537-3 (PB)

Weight Loss for the Mind, (Carlsbad: Hay House, 1994), ISBN 978-1-56170-537-5 (PB)

Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power, (Carlsbad: Hay House, 1995), ISBN 978-1-56170-349-4, 1561703494 (PB)

Silent Power, (Carlsbad: Hay House, 1996), ISBN 978-1-56170-536-8, 1561705365 (PB), ISBN 978-1-4019-0511-8 (HC)

The Little Money Bible: The Ten Laws of Abundance, (Carlsbad: Hay House, 1998), ISBN 978-1-56170-829-1, 1561708291 (PB)

Simply Wilde: Discover the Wisdom that Is, (written with Leon Nacson), (Carlsbad: Hay House, 1999), ISBN 978-1-56170-620-4 (PB)

Sixth Sense: Including the Secrets of the Etheric Subtle Body, (Carlsbad: Hay House, 2000), ISBN 978-1-56170-501-6 (PB)

Wilde Unplugged: A Dictionary of Life (written with Brook Claussen) (2002)(ebook)

God's Gladiators, (Brookemark, 2003), ISBN 978-0-9714396-3-4 (PB), (ebook)

The Three Keys to Self-Empowerment, (Carlsbad: Hay House, 2004), ISBN 978-1-4019-0350-3

The Art of Redemption, (Carlsbad: Hay House, 2007), ISBN 978-1-4019-1754-8 (PB)

Grace, Gaia and the End of Days (with essay by Khris Krepcik), (Carlsbad: Hay House, 2009), ISBN 978-1-4019-2006-7 (PB)

Plum Red: Taoist Tales of Old China (2010)

Music
(Partial list)

Voice of the Feminine Spirit, (Preston/Wheater/Wilde featuring Cecelia
Cecilia (Norwegian singer)
Cecilia is a Classical crossover singer, originally from Norway, who is known for her rendering of "Amazing Grace". She has released 7 albums, 2 via Universal Music, and performed worldwide, selling several hundred thousand albums with virtually no mainstream publicity.- Early life :Cecilia grew up...

) (1994)