ROBERT HICKS
The Great Recalibration
The End of Depression, Fear, and Regret
— A book about what's actually destroying your happiness — and how to fix it.
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WHAT'S INSIDE?
Do you wonder about life's greatest mysteries?
Ever wonder what actually happens when you die? What if heaven and hell aren't what you were told? What if the answer to why you're depressed has nothing to do with what your therapist says? Ever wonder why you exist at all? What your purpose is? Have we shifted into some bizarro, alternate universe? Maybe you have noticed that things are getting really weird lately.
Something is wrong...and you know it. It's not your imagination. Things feel "off." You just don't know exactly what it is — or how to fix it.
That's about to change. Big time.
Twenty-seven years ago, after being diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, Robert Hicks became terrified of death. So he went looking for answers, from the people best equipped to provide them. Not a priest. Not his shrink or a philosophy professor. In fact, you may be very surprised where he looked first.
NDEs. He started reading every near-death experience he could find — the eyewitness testimony from people who had "died and come back. In account after account, the information was so incredibly consistent that Hicks knew he was onto something. So he kept digging. Past life hypnosis, astrology, channeled entities, parallel realities, and alien encounters. The entire library of subjects most people were afraid to take seriously.
Hicks wasn't.
Buried deep in all of that data, he found something — patterns. Patterns that traditional religious leaders, psychologists, and self-help gurus had missed, dismissed, or chose to ignore. After twenty-seven years of relentless research and cross-verification across very different sources, with an open mind and scientific scrutiny, he was able to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
That framework helped him overcome his fear of death and his life-long battle with clinical depression. He knew this information was too valuable to keep to himself. Now is the time for this information to be known. That was his sole motivation behind this book.
The Great Recalibration: The End of Depression, Fear, and Regret is an evidence-based, data-driven guide to what's actually going on, what's destroying your happiness — and how to fix it. Not the latest pop-psychology fad, regurgitated psychobabble or religious dogma. Not opinion or conspiracy theories. Something refreshing and new.
The truth. About this life...and what comes next.
Hicks provides direct answers to questions everyone seems to be asking these days. Why you're depressed. Why traditional religion stopped working for you. What actually happens when you die. Why regret is pointless. Why your "stuff" is lying to you. Why we might be in a simulation. How fear is simply a lack of information, and why help may be coming from a very unexpected source...and you'll never believe what it is.
But this isn't just a diagnosis or some cute little woo-woo, click-bait "toolkit" — it's a laser-guided missile.
Part One is called The "Religious-mess" Dogma Disaster. Why? Because near death experiencers paint a very different picture of God, Jesus, heaven, and hell than what's been sold to you. Part Two, The Recalibration, will redefine how you see life. The truth about your purpose, destiny, free will, reincarnation, karma, prayer, manifesting, and more. Part Three is his personal set of fourteen happiness "hacks" that he used to take back control of his life.
They will do the same for you.
In his book, Hicks provides the answers nobody else has, and simple tools to repair your mind and soul. It's built on evidence collected over twenty-seven years, from hundreds of books and thousands of personal stories, videos, articles, and research studies.
But this isn't a textbook written by some lofty psychiatrist from his beach house. It's an instruction manual, written by a regular person. Just a guy... writing on an old Samsung phone, from his halfway house. You read that right. So the delivery is casual, conversational, and a hell of a lot funnier than you'd expect from a book about life and death.
There is no other book out there like this one. Period.
Hicks is from the school of hard knocks. Oh, by the way, he also has a master's and a bachelor's degree in psychology. He is putting them to great use...as a grill cook at Chipotle. Wait…what? Check out the "About the Author" section below. His book's introduction actually explains everything. He's lived the dream life and the nightmarish reality and survived both. He's learned lessons. Lessons that gave him wisdom. Wisdom is the glue that holds all of this together. This framework works. It better. He will need it during his upcoming prison sentence.
Yes, prison. Where the book's tenets will be put to the ultimate test in a hostile environment — and where he will be writing his next book about how they held up.
If you've tried everything: therapy, meditation, friends' advice, religion, "experts", and a shelf full of now dusty, self-help books and none of it made any real difference — this one will. Hicks lays out the evidence. Take what resonates. Leave the rest.
Finding the truth isn't the problem. It's out there if you look long enough and hard enough. Hicks did so you could skip the twenty-seven years of research part and just read the book. Stress comes from not knowing how something will turn out. Information is the remedy. With understanding comes peace. A peace that passes all understanding, and that's exactly what the book delivers.

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Table of Contents
29 Chapters. 1 Bonus Chapter. 3 Parts. 1 Framework.
Introduction
Part One: The "Religious-mess" Dogma Disaster
  • Chapter 1: The Judgmental, Angry God Myth
  • Chapter 2: Jesus — the Being of Light
  • Chapter 3: The Bible: The Inerrant Word of God?
  • Chapter 4: Is Heaven an Actual Place?
  • Chapter 5: Go to Hell?
Part Two: The Recalibration
  • Chapter 6: The Typical Near-Death Experience (NDE)
  • Chapter 7: The Research They Don't Talk About at Dinner Parties
  • Chapter 8: The Bad NDE
  • Chapter 9: Why Life Sucks
  • Chapter 10: Free Will vs. Destiny
  • Chapter 11: Prayer and Visualization
  • Chapter 12: Past Lives and Karma
  • Chapter 13: Religion, Groupthink, and Evangelism
  • Chapter 14: American Genocide
  • Chapter 15: Godlike Intelligence — Without the God
Part Three: The Happiness "Hacks"
  • Chapter 16: The Formula
  • Chapter 17: Drop the Attitude — Go With Gratitude
  • Chapter 18: The Sickcare, Managed-Decline System
  • Chapter 19: Don't "Fake It"
  • Chapter 20: Stop Shoulding Yourself
  • Chapter 21: The Last Time
  • Chapter 22: Get a Pet
  • Chapter 23: Do Talk to Strangers
  • Chapter 24: The Stuff You Don't Own Yet... Owns You
  • Chapter 25: The Universal Mirror
  • Chapter 26: The Cosmic Giggle
  • Chapter 27: Self-Service?
  • Chapter 28: Boredom: The "Shocking" Truth
  • Chapter 29: Forgiveness
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About the Author
Robert Hicks

Robert Hicks has spent fifty-six years doing things his way. Consequently, he is massively in debt, living in a halfway house, and oh yeah, his new home will be an 8x12 cell. True story. So why does he look so happy and relaxed? Keep reading.
Hicks had two things that helped him — big "life" questions...and the tenacity of an angry beaver. Deeply dissatisfied with the dogma of organized religion — he went looking for answers, from sources most people dismiss as fringe. Near-death experiences. Past life regression. Hypnosis. Quantum physics... and aliens? What he found were personal accounts and surprising, scientific research that provided a glimpse behind the scenes of not only life, but death.
In The Great Recalibration: The End of Depression, Fear, and Regret, he dispenses with the slick, greeting card mentality of the self-help industry. What he delivers is rarer — common sense answers backed by real data, a sense of humor, and easy-to-use tools (his own personal "happiness hacks") to reclaim your mind and retake control of your life.
If you are tired of having "big" questions that nobody can answer or if you are tired of the latest self-help books that overpromise and underdeliver...stop looking. This is your book.
And, by the way, yes. He still believes in God.
WARNING: Hicks presents evidence-based facts that challenge established norms. If you're comfortable with your current situation or don't want to examine your current belief systems, you might want to stick to naked yoga... or meditating on, I don't know... a dandelion or something. This is his first book (but you would never know it).
Also, he's a cat lover…dog people still welcome.
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