{"product_id":"9781452058078","title":"The Gist in the Mist","description":"WHAT IS REALLY REAL? Is the chair you are sitting on really there? What does reality and existence mean to you? Can you, as an ordinary human, get a grip of what reality is or could be? Well, yes you can! You can raise your perception horizons without becoming a nuclear physicist, philosopher or priest. MAN IS AN UNCERTAINTY MACHINE. He is fine-tuned to deal with uncertainty.  He is not primarily a love machine (I am of course the exception), nor a sex machine nor a fighting machine nor a hate machine and not even a gene machine. He is an UNCERTAINTY MACHINE. People like and seek certainty in their lives, but is uncertainty the real path or key to reality? Should we celebrate and embrace uncertainty? So let's start using all that uncertainty and applying it to every component of our very being.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cli\u003eCan we trust our senses or is perception deception? \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eCan we trust the physical objects we are seeing around us? What is the matter batter holding us all together and how does matter...chatter? \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhat is the relationship between mind and matter? Is it the case that If you don't mind, it doesn't matter? \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eDo we have free will or are we just a quantum puppet? \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eIf religion is the opium of the masses, is science the amphetamine of the individual? Do we put too much reliance on science and is our conviction a restriction? \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eCould it be that doubt gives you clout?\u003cp\u003e Read on and be transformed to another world, the world of:  'THE GIST IN THE MIST'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140641407216,"sku":"9781452058078","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781452058078_p0.jpg?v=1763838758","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781452058078","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}