Philip Goddard

Philip Goddard (b.1942, Harrow Weald, Middlesex, London), had a challenging start in life as a 'war baby', but actually his much bigger challenge at that time was something else much more disturbing, yet unnoticed by those around him, which was a by-product of his deep and penetrating awareness. Nightly he suffered what medics, in their ignorance of their true nature, call 'night terrors' - something that he has much more recently come to understand properly and has explained at length in a major report contained in one of his websites (Self-Realization & Clear-Mindedness). Those severely testing early childhood experiences, coupled with that penetrating awareness left him bewildered at the irrationality of the people around him. Over time, through various discoveries and explorations he came increasingly to understand what was driving that irrationality, and this has led to his becoming a particularly challenging promoter of self-actualization by practical means that keep clear of all belief systems and traditions.

In the earlier stages of his arriving at a proper understanding of human nature and human function and dysfunction, he got writing a series of literary works - first poetry, then short stories and finally novels - that were both means to convey to the reader various challenges to hold their own life experiences and lifestyles up to proper rational scrutiny, and at the same time to develop his musical composition ability - his novels and indeed one of the short stories actually being in an important sense his first seven symphonies (he followed those with ten actual musical symphonies).

They are thus aimed at stimulating new thought processes and the expanding of horizons, and are intended for people with open minds and a will to look at situations and experience them in new ways that point beyond beliefs and opinions, and who warm to his often black-humorous surrealistic satirical creations.