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    6 Atheist Tales
    6 Atheist Tales
    6 Atheist Tales
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    6 Atheist Tales

    By Eric Maisel

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    Eric Maisel is the author of The Atheist's Way and 40 other books and the developer of natural psychology. Natural psychology, Dr. Maisel's new psychology of meaning, presents a naturalistic, secular, and atheistic psychology. These six atheist teaching tales, similar to Sufi teaching tales, Biblical teaching tales, and fables and fairy tales, convey important natural psychology lessons in story form. Included in this anthology: On Tuesday You Can Walk On Water, Job Interview, Pander Bear, Foursome, War Hero, and The Missing Link.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEric Maisel
    Release dateMar 13, 2013
    ISBN9781301200580
    6 Atheist Tales
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    Eric Maisel

    Eric Maisel, PhD, is the author of more than forty works of nonfiction and fiction and is widely regarded as America’s foremost creativity coach. He trains creativity coaches nationally and internationally and provides core trainings for the Creativity Coaching Association. Eric is a print columnist for Professional Artist magazine and a blogger for Fine Art America and Psychology Today. In 2012 he developed natural psychology, the new psychology of meaning. His books include Coaching the Artist Within, Rethinking Depression, Fearless Creating, The Van Gogh Blues, and many others. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family. His websites are www.ericmaisel.com and www.naturalpsychology.net.

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      6 Atheist Tales - Eric Maisel

      Six Atheist Tales

      By Eric Maisel

      Copyright 2013, Eric Maisel. All rights reserved.

      Published by Eric Maisel at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes



      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Welcome to these six atheist teaching tales. My name is Eric Maisel and I’m the author of more than 40 books, including The Atheist’s Way. I hope you enjoy these tales and, if you do, let others know about them!

      Many spiritual, religious and philosophical traditions employ the teaching tale or teaching fable as a way to communicate their principles and practices.

      There are biblical tales in the Judeo-Christian tradition, well-known Sufi teaching tales like The blind man and the elephant, Enlightenment tales like Candide, and modern cautionary tales like Animal Farm.

      This volume contains six tales that add to the canon of atheist teachings. I am including them in the natural psychology series of writings since natural psychology is rooted in the Darwinian and naturalistic view that our species evolved and was not created and therefore is essentially atheistic.

      If you would like to learn more about natural psychology, please visit:

      http://www.naturalpsychology.net

      If you’d like to learn more about my views on atheism, please visit:

      http://www.theatheistsway.com

      Please enjoy these teaching tales! If you’d like to be in touch, drop me an email at [email protected]

      Six Atheist Tales

      1. On Tuesday You Can Walk on Water

      2. Job Interview

      3. Pander Bear

      4. Foursome

      5. War Hero

      6. The Missing Link

      1. ON TUESDAY YOU CAN WALK ON WATER

      A stranger, arriving in town for a few days to transact some business, was surprised to see an old man on a downtown corner giving away water. The old man had a set-up just like any hawker’s, except that beside his table he had a large bucket with a ladle hooked over its edge and a sign

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