The Gospel According to Jack

About the Book

In 1967 a discovery occurred that this book contends was the greatest discovery mankind ever made or, will ever make. That discovery led to the formulation of a theory laid out in brief in this book in Part 1. In so doing it defines, for the very first time in the history of mankind, neurosis and contends that if this theory is valid then the consequences for mankind are enormous.

Part II starts by looking at the subconscious minds and then goes on to postulate the nature of thinking, based on the evolution of language - the beginnings of civilization. Benjamin Lee Whorf in 1941, suggested that we think in our language. That language evolved, suggests that thinking is not innate to us humans but rather is a factor of our neurosis - our disease.

Part II then continues, by implication, to "fell the pillars of civilization", suggesting that civilization is a factor of our neurosis; having only been around for, at most, 10 millennia, whereas mankind has been around for about 100 millennia. The subsequent chapters are thus "slaughtering many sacred cows".

Part III suggest how we might regain our 'feeling-full selves--the antithesis of neurosis--by some understanding of our nature, not our behavior which is all we've had prior to this discovery, and how we could transition out of our neurosis. It is a very profound and thought provoking book and if correct, could have as profound an effect as Copernicus and Galileo did in their field of astronomy.

About the Author

Who's Jack? Jack was born into a working class family in 1932, in the industrial north of England. He finished high school, but unable to afford further education, subsequently did conscription army national service for two years from age 18. After an arrest for homosexual activity at age 21, he left for London "to make a fortune" with one and three h'pence! in his pocket (25 cents) and was eventually accepted at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1959. After much struggling, he gave up on the theatre world and dropped out at the end of the swinging sixties to live as a hippie on the magical island of Ibiza where he read The Primal Scream in 1973 and became known thereafter as "screaming Jack." He later made it to the Primal Institute, Los Angeles, in 1981 and has been feeling and healing ever since.