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.
