The Untrue Story of You

Bryan Hubbard is editor of What Doctors Don't Tell You with his wife Lynne McTaggart, who writes the foreword to this book subtitled 'how to let go of the past that creates you, and become fully aware in the present.' As with many books of this kind, the ideas have emerged from the author's own experience and the ways in which he has overcome his challenges. In common with spiritual traditions, he takes the view that the ego is ultimately illusory and that we spend a good deal of time allowing thoughts to think us and creating our history and identity from this process. This means that our everyday self is a construct of the past from experiences. He suggests that we have three dimensions: our Present time-body or self, our Past time-body for self with three layers of knowledge, narrative and psychology, and finally our Potential centre or self which is universal and outside time and space, witnessing every experience.

While children begin 'time-light', as adults we can become progressively more 'time-heavy' and end up being weighed down by life. An initial realisation is that we co-create our lives and receive 'pulses' from each of these three bodies, which we need to learn to recognise. All this is clearly explained in the book with the message that we should let go of the past and live fully in the present, allowing the Potential centre to manifest through us. The first part of the book is a study course of 21 days involving a series of processes as we learn to look, observe our thoughts and behaviour patterns, create new narratives, deal with resentment, enter a state of forgiveness and gratitude and respond rather than react to life. All of this involves transforming energetic processes - something to which we all aspire and which this book can help us achieve.