About Ren

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I was born onto a small farm in Toongabbie, to the west of Sydney, Australia.

My mother managed the farm helped by myself and my elder brother. My father was a truck driver. My brother, four-and-a-half years older then me, was born with cerebral palsy and was epileptic. He had cerebral palsy affecting the entire right side of his body.

Later in life, I would be the primary care-organizer for my mother who had advanced Alzheimers, my father who had suffered a massive stroke and was paralyzed down one side of his body and, of course, my brother who had cerebral palsy. (Yes, all at the same time… I wouldn’t dare put that in a script… it wouldn’t seem too far-fetched..)

I completed a PhD in philosophy at the age of 26.

At the same age, I experienced a major life set-back. A had a business project collapse. This threw me back on myself. I started to ask fundamental questions:

  • Does life have any meaning?
  • How can a life be truly meaningful?
  • How can any person create a truly meaningful life?

The desire for answers to these questions has shaped my life.

It has taken me on a journey through experiential psychology, philosophy and mystic spirituality.

Without this journey, The Jesus Code would have never been written.

At the age of 33, I changed my name from Garry Ross Sargeant. This followed a personal epiphany about why my father had named me ‘Garry Ross’. This gave rise to a revolutionary understanding of the psychological impact of names and the book, The Secret Meaning of Names.

I have never been able to confine my ideas to just one genre and so have written in pretty much every genre you can conceive of: fiction, non-fiction, humour, education videos, business plans, scripts, academic articles, poetry, song lyrics…. etc…

For more on my writings, degrees/studies, inner journey and my adventure in dance, click on the links below.

Interviews

  National TV interviews…

Past writing

Selected highlights Books Three Nights on Nowhere Street (Fontana) about time spent living with the homeless. Eye of the Shadow. Psychological thriller published by Penguin. The Braille and Talking book version was short-listed for book of the year. This was considerable praise as it was written from the perspective of a blind person. The Complete …

Degrees/studies

Degrees B.A. (Hons) Macquarie University. Major in Philosophy; sub-major in history. Honours thesis topic: The relativity of cause and effect PhD (La Trobe University) Thesis topic: Objectivity Certificate Level Training in: Clinical Hypnotherapy Breathwork Dreamwork Applied Jungian psychology Jungian Sandplay Voice Dialogue Past-life regression therapy   I have also studied: Aikido (black belt Aiki-kai) Tai …

Inner Journey

The only truly important thing I have done in my life is inner work… Whatever worthy things I have done in my external life are, ultimately, but a dancing shadow of my inner journey. This journey has been long. I want to here make an apology. I have had acquaintances and very good friends who …

Dance

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