Stuart Wilde | |
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| Pen name | Stuart Wilde |
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| Period | 1983–2013 |
| Subject | Taoism,spirituality,personal development,cognition, culture, money, society,meditation, philosophy,ESP,consciousness,quantum mechanics |
| Notable works | Miracles,The Force,The Quickening,The Trick to Money is Having Some,Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power,Sixth Sense,The Art of Meditation,Grace, Gaia and the End of Days,Plum Red |
| Children | Sebastien Wilde |
| Relatives | Commander James Wilde DSC, RN, Liliana Wilde |
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Stuart Wilde (24 September 1946 – 1 May 2013) was a British writer. Best known for his works onNew Age, self-empowerment, and spirituality,[1] he was also a lecturer, teacher, humorist, essayist, scriptwriter, lyricist, and music producer. He was the author of twenty books including the popular series[2]The Taos Quintet:Miracles,The Force,Affirmations,The Quickening, andThe Trick to Money is Having Some.[3][4]
Wilde was born inFarnham, England. He has a twin sister,Dee Dee,[5] who became well known in Britain for her weekly appearances onTop of the Pops with the dance troupePan's People. He was educated atSt. George's College, Weybridge, Surrey. After his schooling he joined theEnglish Stage Company in Sloane Square, London. A year later he opened a jeans business inCarnaby Street London, at the height of the Swinging Sixties where he enjoyed considerable commercial success.[6]
He studied alternative religions andTaoist philosophy for five years from the age of twenty-eight, and when he was thirty-three, he emigrated to the United States of America where he lived inLaguna Beach, California with his first wife Cynthia. He wrote his first book,Miracles, in 1983.[3]
Shortly thereafter he began a career as a lecturer appearing mainly inNew Thought Churches and atNew Age conferences. In the 1990s he toured regularly withDeepak Chopra,Dr. Wayne Dyer andLouise Hay,[7] appearing at venues such as theSydney Entertainment Centre.
Wilde's London street slang andcomedic way[8] of presenting self-empowerment andspiritual ideas continue to attract a wide and diverse audience.[2][8] 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".[2][9]
He remains a figure for progressive thought in metaphysics[citation needed] and the field of human potential, and is often quoted with references to his work appearing across a wide swath of international cultural, business, and educational forums from theKennedy Center for the Arts',[10] interviews with American hip-hop artists andslam poets,[11] international investment conferences,[12] and the pages of international media such as CNET's "Top 10 List: Human Development Gurus"[13] andThe Times of India's "Sunday Life" section.[14]
On 1 May 2013, Wilde suffered a heart attack while driving through Ireland. He was 66 years old.[15]
Wilde's principal claims are that, while many citizens may seem to be normal, acquiescing to the status quo, there exists a vast population of what he callsFringe Dwellers whose mind and soul do not align to the constraints of life in regular society that Wilde called Tick-Tock.[2][16] Wilde believed through use of thetheta state ofmeditation (4–7cycles per second), humans can better control theiremotional life and theirbio-rhythms, and begin to see visions, and that those visions andextrasensory feeling will lead to a greater balance and morefreedom.[2][17][18]
To that end, he emphasized the importance of going beyond the habit of struggling, and advocated the need for financial freedom,[2] themes stated in his booksLife was Never Meant to be a Struggle (1987),The Trick to Money is Having Some (1989),[19] andThe Little Money Bible (1998).
InAffirmations (1986), Wilde laid out systems of self-talk that empower an individual to change their corebeliefs.[20] His bookSixth Sense (2000) discusses practical techniques for developingextrasensory perception.
He earned both praise and criticism for his later works which advanced controversial concepts such as other dimensions, dematerialization, and Morph worlds.[9]
His most avant garde claims are based on the idea thatPaul Dirac's hypothesis of parallelantiparticle worlds is, in fact, correct, and that humans adept attrance meditation can become aware of spiritualdimensions placed at 90° from them left and right—dimensions, Wilde said, that followHawking's theory of transverse waves of light. Wilde acknowledged there was no empirical data to support his claim, but anecdotal evidence, gathered from more than two-thousand people whom he taught, stated they had experienced suchtranscendental 90°perception which led him to conclude these worlds exist.[21]
Grace, Gaia, and the End of Days (2009) maps out coordinates for these spiritual dimensions and offers "a twenty-first century understanding of grace and spiritual evolution"—and tools to activate it in one's life. In a 2009 interview Wilde said, "Grace is a golden light, pure love, a divine energy, seen coming from these inner spiritual worlds. It is data-driven and laced with trillions of bits of fractal information that will guide you and help you evolve. The human system is configured to read this fractal data through visions and extra sensory intuitive feelings."[21] Serenity and balance developed through regular trance meditation enable access to this "pure information", which he called stream of consciousness from a "Higher Knowing", "The Source", "God".[21]
While Wilde believed humans are multi-dimensional beings who possess both the celestial light and the dark, he posited they gravitate to one or the other based on inner feelings, thoughts, and actions. The quality of these feelings, moreover, determine the spiritual dimension an aspect of oneself will reside in any moment.[21][22] Redemption (and a life of love and serenity) is possible for all by choosing the ways of the celestial. On the larger plane, he believed the light will eventually overcome the dark and advised aligning with the forces of light, the forces of God. He laid out techniques for doing so through cultivation of tenderness, generosity, respect, "the soft eye", mindfulness, meditation, time in nature and with animals,[23] and avoidance of dark places, people, and media that sell specialness, fear, degradation, and greed. Move from the cold cerebral mind into the warmth of heart and feeling. "There is strength in softness. Remember, It's all backwards," he was oft quoted as saying.[21]
Wilde was a staunch supporter ofpeace in the world, the command tolive and let live,[9]animal rights and vegetarianism. Tom Lishman eulogised him this way—
We must remember that just because he has gone back to the non-physical realm he is still very much with us, we should not forget that his time here was set and agreed upon and he has completed his mission, that being said all fringe dwellers must now rise above the despair and confusion they feel and turn it into positive energy and by doing this they will honour his work in the best possible way. Stuart will be remembered for making a huge contribution towards the new golden age of peace and love that is fast approaching, his followers will indeed take up his torch and light up planet earth like never before. We must ponder this question...What if by him leaving his body at this time he can contribute even more to world peace ?, anyone that knows him will know that he will be doing just that."[24]
Wilde was a prolific writer with 20 books appearing in more than 27 languages. A total of 95 unique titles (books, audio works, music) are in circulation,[3][25] with several hundred essays and articles in syndication across digital media.
He was executive producer and lyricist on the music albumVoice of the Feminine Spirit, which sold several hundred-thousand copies.[26] He later produced and was the lyricist on two albums of Celtic music,Voice of the Celtic Myth (1997), andCreation (1999),[27][28] and wrote the book andlibretto for Tim Wheater'soratorioHeartland (1995).[29][30] In 2010, his collaboration with Richard Tyler produced the ambient releaseThe Mystery of the Sacred O, an homage "to the earth spirit Gaia and the masculine (Ka), and feminine (Om) creative energies of the Universe."[31]
Lectures, audiobooks, subliminal productions. (Partial list)
Meditations, brainwave metronomes. (Partial list)
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Selected lectures, music and tone poems. (Partial list)
Selected writings from collections of articles and essays at stuartwilde.com, thesacredtearsofgaia.com, thehoodedsage.com, and zenhaven.com:
