I love to hear comments about how you have engaged with the work whether the work has helped you, made you angry (at me) made you see things differently, or just confirmed what you already thought...

 

My name is Doina and I am from Romania, but I live in Italy. I started to listen this book a week ago. It's just amazing.....First I thought that I will improve My English skils using audiobooks and now I am addicted. I can't put it down I recharge my player twice a day. I feel like it is speaking about my own life, experiences, troubles and so on...... I am pleased that I can improve my life too listening this book. I feel better because I am not alone anymore with my fears and uncertainities

PS I hope in the future to contribute with my ideas as long as I feel this books as quite mine too..............

RobZorfull wrote:

This outlook is amazing and I will continue to pursue the work of Alan MacMillan Orr.

Annabel (unregistered) wrote:

Handsome website and good article. Thank you from Reunion Island  

bruno974 wrote:

Oui se donner bonne conscience ne suffit pas; on peut se donner bonne conscience dans la religion, dans les pratiques spirituelles, dans l'humanitaire, dans les professions médicales, etc. S'observer, faire attention à ses gestes, son comportement, ses paroles, sa pensée. Se déconditionner progressivement des automatismes qui ne sont plus utiles, qui n'apportent plus rien, qui sont stériles. Avoir du temps pour soi, pour se retrouver, pour apprendre à s'aimer, à se connaitre. Comprendre ce qu'est l'égo, le fonctionnement du mental, et avoir comme but de changer les parties de soi qu'on aime pas, avoir la volonté de s'élever, de se maitriser ... Il est possible que la voie la plus difficile est le travail sur soi, mais qu'elle soit la plus rapide et la plus rigoureuse. ^_^

from mark hithersay (01/08/09)

Mark says, "Hi Alan, just reading / listening to you book, and yes its waking me up and helpig with my own thoughts. Brill reading".

from michael grantham ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )02/08/09

Hello!

First I want to congratulate you on the success of this book, and encourage you in your journey into the human experience. It is truly rare to find a human unpossessed by his possessions, as I get the impression you must be, and it inspires faith and hope in me, that there are indeed good people in the world. I’m curious as to what Buddhist monastery you attended? I’m quite interested in gaining a similar experience..though I don’t understand quite why.

Thanks so much for listening to the purest form of human communication; the communication among mind, body, and spirit, from which stems all thought, behavior and speech; and thank you for sharing that communication to the world.

from Matt;

Looks like a very nice project you have here, about to listen to your audiobook that I have downloaded from torrent.

How long has the site been up? Very nice site I have to say, didnt I read somewhere you are into IT, thats probably why!

Anyway good luck with it all I'll let you know what I think Cheers -Matt

from chanu miah Alan, Many Thanks

i love your books.

chanu

Comment: Hello, For approximately a month I've been reading and listening to "The Natural Mind". It reflects a bit too much my own thoughts. Some articles I find I totally agree. (I'm thinking in particular about the article about "mariage".. I divorced after two years... from my foreign husband, I realized mariage made no sense and fled) I also left a job, started studying about something totally different but which goes with my convictions. I'm not sure about dairy products though. I think what you're doing is important. Well, I'm doing the same!! But on a much smaller scale (my surrounding). I got sick of computers, so I'm not often on the internet.. though it's the only way to reach people now, right? When you get the chance to see someone on the street you can be sure they are staring at their phones or listening to music. Anyway, you have a humourous and convincing tone, though pretty incisive. Wouldn't I be already awaken, it would work on me, I'm sure!

Luke Mason Re: Waking Up "Well thanks for putting all your work to audio and giving me something to break the monotony of being a 19 yr old student working in London watching the scary reality of the 'real world'. Listening to some of your quotes whilst standing on tube provides some perfectly ironic moments. I'll keep you posted with feedback on Natural Mind. Look forward to your views on the 2012 theory. Luke"

"Hi Alan, I downloaded torrents of your audiobook. It had been offered incrementaly over the last few months but I just recently noticed it. It didn't take too much listening to realize how important it is. I plan to purchase and distribute what I can. My thoughts are with you always. Peace and Love, Suzanne"

Mark says, "Hi Alan, just reading / listening to you book, and yes its waking me up and helping with my own thoughts. Brill reading".

"Hi Alan, Listening to your audiobook. Deeply believe everything you say. Was hoping there was someone out there. Also believe humor is essential and love your sense of same. Would like to purchase your books for friends. Peace and Love, Suzanne".

 Jeremy 21 years old (but does it matter ?) 

Hello everybody I'm french from France, and as somebody said, I saw your book on Mininova, I don't know what caught my attention, probably the word "natural"...First I thought there was only one file "audiobook five" but then I saw the others and I was pleased even more. What a great, awesome book, I mean there's no word to describe it, you just have to read it that's all, then make your judgement. Keep them coming Allan, by the way I'm coming to Scotland, what a coincidence, because I had plan the whole trip before I even know about your book. Thank you Allan and take care. Bye

sk8punk49 wrote: from mininova comments

I am a 17yr Old Teen. I just d/l this and cant put this book down. I found it very insightful and beneficial to me. I would recommend this to anybody looking for true insight. AND im a person who never ever read books. THX, great share 

(unregistered) wrote:

Hey Alan,

My Name is Aabhishek Patwari. I am from Pune, India. Recently, I underwent a very traumatic experience in my personal life. I used to pride on myself being a very strong individual but this thing nearly brought me down. I was completely dazed, disillusioned and entirely confused about life for the past one month. I downloaded your book on impulse and I .I just wanted to thank you for doing such a wonderful job. I could relate to so many things in your book. I really could have used a helping hand and You gave it in the form of this book. Thanks!!

Aabhishek Patwari

Pacelli Torres (unregistered) wrote:

I am writing from Colombia. It was like a miracle to come to your site today. I definitely will take a deep look to your book. Thank you for sharing, and you are not alone.

Pacelli

Brian(unregistered) wrote:

I pirated your book, and after reading the first few pages sought out your site online. When I have the cash I will be making a donation to your site. You have given an voice to thoughts that haunt my mind and are on the vestige of manifesting into concise thoughts. I agree with quite literally everything you have to say so far that I have read. The Natural Mind is easily the most relevant collection of thoughts I have ever found bound into one text, to be honest if the Bible/ Koran / Torah were replaced with this, the world would have been a better place an eon ago.

Thank you.

Shafiul Azam (unregistered) wrote:

Thanks a lot ..I got many answer from your book which i have been looking for ages....

G'Day Alan.

I have read your book, and am completely astonished how much your sentiments and ideas match my own. I literally devoured every page, totally engrossed. Have I got it right, do you live on Arran? When I left the U.K. in 1952 I sailed from Glasgow and sailed past Arran on my way here to Aus.

All the best to you Alan and keep up your good work.

Norm (Dutchy) Holland

 (unregistered) wrote:

Hello, Alan!

My name is Paul, i am 23 y old.... I find ur book very interesting! It seems a little odd to me because it is organized like an encyclopedia and does not seem to have ... a structure (so to speak). I see u have gone to great lengths in making the site, and it's pretty new/ recent (a bit more marketing would not be so bad  ).

I always had lots of opinions and nobody seemed to care about what i had to say.... Obviously I might be interested in contributing to the book, but i see that for now does not seem to be a community formed.... I'm trying to say that i find it more easily to debate a subject in a dialog with more people, than just say what one thinks.

On the other hand i never been very good at expressing what i think and my english might contain lots of mistakes.

I hope the project gathers enough people to be heard in the four winds!

Samuel(unregistered) wrote:

Hey Alan, I'm from Quebec, Canada.. I found your book while looking for movies/tvshows on mininova.org ... I kinda liked its name "The Natural Mind - Waking Up A Personal Journey into what it truly means to be HUMAN". After I took a quick look at it I thought it looked really interesting but I don't really like reading out of my computer screen so I asked a friend to print the whole thing for me at his working place (over 1000 pages) and I gave 12$ for it. I only read about a hundred pages yet but.. well to keep it short it's great! It's exactly the kind of thing I always wanted to find at the library. I donated 20$ on your site (2x10$ lol.. I knew I had some money on a paypal account that I would never use but did'nt exaclty how much so I tried 10$.. worked... tried another 10$ .. worked .. but the 3rd did'nt work) ;p So anyways, I wanted to know if a french version will soon/ever be available.. altough I'm guessing not. I'm french myself and so is nearly everyone I know. I'm I'm translating your book(some parts) for my mother 'cause I think she will love it... but I can't do more than like one page per hour (pretty hard work it's not my specialty!) .. and that's kind of why I was hoping for a full version in french so I can share with people I know hehe. Thanks for reading all this.. could'nt stop lol.. oh I'm 26 years old ...

Patrick (unregistered) wrote:

If only my english were better, I would write down a whole essay titled "Why is Alan Orr so damn right?"

Sankaranarayanan V Alan,

I just started reading your book, and i like reading it. I have not finished the book yet, but i searched for you and landed here.

Gabe (unregistered) wrote:

you have a marxist critical outlook, I like that. understanding causality so deeply and how it affects us all and in addition, what profiteers do to rape us.

brian (unregistered) wrote:

hi alan.

is reading your book at the moment. and it is very impressive, would wish i had the same ability to do the same as u.

and i love reading it, have much the same ideas as u, but as humans were are not the same, but the principles are the same.

and at last. i would love to meet ppl like u and to have fellowship in a world build by ppl who care.

best luck to u.

brian nielsen. denmark.

Marcela (unregistered) wrote:

The rich and the powerful. They like having control over us." This made me write a comment. I think about it every day. It makes me sad to know it. I think we, as humans, should help each other, to make our lives happier other than living in wars. It is sad to know the cause of most problems is money and greed. Most of the time we want more and more and more, even if we do not need it because as you said, our basics needs are food, water and a shelter. What else could we ask for? ugh! We are alive. If we would understand this, we wouldn't be working as much as we do, we would be enjoying our life, working for essential food and shelter (and when I mean working, I do not mean working in a corporation or a store, I mean working in your own farm, getting your own food, or helping other human being) but instead we like wasting our life working 8 hours, getting money and buy stuff that we do not need, but we want, just because we are attached to material things. Saddest part? We will die,we already waste our lives and we won't take any of those material things.

Anyway, I like reading your stuff,it is like talking to myself, the only thing is that I am pretty writing in English,so I just keep everything in my mind or whenever I have the chance to talk to someone.

Will Murphy

Alan, Thanks for the book - very thought provoking.

Cliff

I'm very excited by what you have done here.

I've been struggling with where to start in making my own contribution. I'm overwhelmed with areas when I can work...comments, forum, the wiki. I figured I start here because I wanted to give you some feedback to acknowledge what you have done and are trying to do.

Like you, I have been struggling to make sense of existence. I'm amazed at achievements of humanity, but also frustrated by the apparent stupidity of much of what we do.

I've also been wanting to set up website to put these types of questions to the world. I haven't been able to convince myself that it would achieve anything. Why would anyone take notice of yet another person offering their opinion? It seems that apart from porn, a key function of the internet has been to give voice to everyone. However, my impression is that people are too busy expressing their own opinions to listen to anyone else. Furthermore, it's a little frightening to see how irrational and illogical people can be...they present arguments as some sort of gospel truth yet offer no evidence to back up what they say. I throw may hands up in despair and wonder if it even possible to make some people see reason. I don't mean that in an arrogant way, that is, I am right you are wrong...I simply mean that when we offer comment or opinion that it has some sort of logic and rationale behind it. The objective is trying to find some sort of truth.

My fear for you (and the rest us)is that you end up 'preaching' to the converted. I am unsure as to how that can translate into a mechanism for change. My impression is that people are overwhelmed with the complexity of modern lay life that it leaves them little time or energy to dedicate to change. That is, it is hard enough just trying to keep on top of things, and then there a million distractions all vying for our attention.

Power for change seems lie with corporations and governments. They have their own agenda which seems to be more about power and money that the long term welfare of the planet.

Perhaps it all comes down to self interest...the basic desire for self preservation means that people will generally look after themselves and their own kind first. If others have to suffer then too bad...better them than me.

I could waffle on for ages, but I'll call it quit here.

Once again, all the best with your endeavours.

Cheers Cliff

umesh211 wrote:

thank you very much for publishing such a great book.. actually i m also almost of your thoughts having the concept of acceptance, love and nature.. but still anger generates automatically in my mind in some cases.. but i always manage to control it..but still i m looking ways not to generate anger at all.. your concept is best for me to live the life where u can cheer every moment of life no matter what.. there is no suffering at all..once u try it it's always much more easier to life the whole life with love and acceptance.. once again thank you very much for such a great book...

roy (unregistered) wrote:

Hi Alan,

Very cool book and well put together. Your book helped in shedding light on a lot of different thoughts I've been playing w/ for years. But I did see one particular comment that you made that I disagree w/. When you mentioned the following statement:

"How about murderers, rapists, warlords, army generals, hooligans, drunks, drug addicts, fast food corporation directors, people who drop litter, shopaholics, criminals, supermarket shoppers and bosses, car drivers, or even fried chicken lovers. This book is not for these people! They wouldn't buy it, or read it, and even if they did, they may put it down rather quickly, because this is not a book about something they're interested in; it's a book which asks them to look at themselves."

Well, I happen to be a person who uses drugs..and I believe you've dabbled in them as well..right? To say that a drug user/addict is one that is or is not interested in change or already open to change(s) is a bad one one in my opinion. Nevertheless, very very informative book, I still have 390 pages to go before completing it. And I'm looking forward to whatever it is you present to me next.

Thanks for taking time out of YOUR life in the hopes of benefiting others/ours!

Subject: The Book

Dear Mr. Orr,

Happy New 2009! I'm delighted for having the opportunity to thank you for your great book. I've been reading and re-reading it, very refreshing, friendly and helpful. It showed me how many aspects of life are overlooked, as if they are something "normal", but actually require a special state of mind to be dealt with.

Best wishes,

Dobromir Dimov

Anjelo

Ergo Cogito,Sum My whole life has been an adventure full of emotions and suprises!I always had questions in my mind and i never liked to sleep..!I have been studing human nature a couple of years from now and i used to observe other people.The way they think,the way they act and staff like that.Then one day i found your Audiobook on the net and because of the word 'Human' on the title i download it.I was amazed by the way you described this so full of meaning words,and from the simplicity you have in the way you use to explain the deeper human nature.I am 29 years old and i am Greek.My mind is AWAKE and it cant go for sleep again.Its just CANT,and i am very happy about it.I want to thank you for doing this and tell you that you are not alone.Please forgive any mistakes in the way i write or express,i hope they are not too many.I also want to ask you when will your next audio book will be available(?) With Respect and Love,

A Friend from another place of our 'Home',Earth! Anjelo

Hongyi unregistered) wrote:

Thank you Alan, for changing my life.

Clark Robertson (unregistered) wrote:

Hi Alan.

I too am a Scotsman, born in Glasgow. And I too have travelled quite a bit in my life. I am presently living in Australia, and have been for the past 6.5 years. I became vegan about 20 years ago also. I am 51 years old, and have gone through many of the things you mention here in your short bio. And I agree with a lot of the things you say. I hope we can chat sometimes, because I want to try to find some answers. I know we all have to get the answers from within, but it cant hurt to hear the opinion of another. I am a Buddhist, which as you probably know is not a religion. But I am not a very good one. I do too many things wrong, and I am a bit weak with certain things. But I am trying. I cannot help myself sometimes in my (hatred) (dont really like that word but...) my hatred of big corporations, corrupt government, and an equally corrupt and most disruptive religious organization, whose main purpose is to make more money, and gain more power, at the expense of everyone, and everything on this planet. So I look forward to chatting with you in the near future, and hope I can contribute in some small way that is of some benefit to someone. For years I got angry, (and still do sometimes) about the state of the world, but I am trying to move away from that anger, and disappointment. I want to lose my attachment to these things, while still trying to contribute in some small way to making things better for others.

Lucas Hey,

You're not alone, ^_^ May all of us take responsability for each of our's individual world and meet at the crossroad of change

from there on lets walk the path together 

I wish you all lots of hapiness and smiles along the way !

In my world it's obviously started ! thx for appearing at this moment as another same intention !

Lucas

Hey Alan.

My name is Youssef or Joseph ,21 years old. I'm from Morocco. I want to thank you for taking so much of time to write this amazing and wonderful book. I'm really grateful and lucky for being one of the few guys around the world who are reading it.

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