About The Book

'Auspicious Thoughts, Propitious Mind'

  def: auspicious, propitious - likely to turn out well, on track, promising.
The words auspicious and propitious are almost synonymous and both point to the future. It is only natural, for ourselves and for our loved ones, to want to be happy, even if we are unsure how to bring that about. Material acquisitions tend only to bring transient feelings of happiness. The author, Richard Camden proposes thoughts and attitudes that can bring more lasting contentment, the psychology of self, with focused resolve, self-reliance and awareness that nurture a sense of well-being, fulfilment and sound judgement.   

This book is far-reaching and motivating.  It is for anyone with feelings of disappointment or a loss of direction in their life. There may be difficulties due to dysfunctional relationships or feelings of bewilderment, pondering the meaning and purpose of life, or religion. Here is an encouragement to marshal those thoughts, through improved understanding, such as the unfairness of life, and to accept the responsibility for personal predicaments. In a subtle yet stimulating way, the author gives hints how the application of a studied and developed personal philosophy can lead to a propitious mind.         

Richard Camden looks at the many complexities of society today,  and has written in a way that avoids academic jargon. Furthermore, he uses a reasoning that identifies with the fictional 'Man on the Clapham Omnibus,' created by the Law Courts to be the notional very reasonable 'Mr. Average' in all things, to assist the Court reach equitable solutions. Using that approach, Richard has written his forty chapters to make a comprehensive interesting and rich source of helpful material that any reader can usefully draw upon.

While admitting our highly advanced civilisation, Richard Camden notes with dismay that society blithely continues to manifest its animal and tribal origins, yielding unwittingly to primaeval instincts and character traits. Richard also questions some religions' long held beliefs, and identifying God as humanesque. He goes on to counter those beliefs with the refreshing explanation that God is an ever-present force of the universe, comparable with other abstruse phenomena of physics in the cosmos, and a force for goodness we can tap into.
To stimulate and perhaps broaden the reader's perceptions, this book uses subtlety as a tool, along with metaphors, some satire and some occasional harmlessly cynical wit. It is possibly different to any kind of book the reader has ever experienced.    
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This book may challenge a reader's established thinking and habitual attitudes. We need only believe what we choose to believe, but often much is accepted automatically since our upbringing. Other beliefs are viewed as incontrovertible fact, such as the broadcast news or government announcements. We have been used to including photographs and recorded voices, but less reliably today due to doctoring of images and voice record tampering. 

We can choose to believe what we have been told, or read, and what we thought we saw. We can choose to believe ideas, notions, imaginings and falsehoods put to us and grow in our heads. Many beliefs, on examination, turn out to be assumptions, superstitions, or fallacies, misconceptions, delusions and fantasies - and all turn out to be beliefs that cannot be proven. Religious beliefs come into this category. 

Many believe in God, for their own reasons, often to do with peace of mind and any life hereafter, but their conception of what God is, is likely to be very different to someone else's, and none of these is provable, which, we are told, is the essence of faith, 'belief without proof.' On the other hand, as this book says, we can accept that God is an identifiable force for that which is good in the world, which is provable, but rarely attributed to God. Goodness is an invisible force, and like gravity and magnetism, we cannot see it, but we can prove its existence by the effects it brings about.