Stephen J Preston is director of Arius School of Performing Arts and musical director/composer for Contemporancient Theatre.
A former teacher, Stephen has a first class honours degree in theology from the University of Wales, Cardiff, and a PGCE in Religious Education from Trinity College, Carmarthen.
A passionate biker, he is South Wales representative for the British Motorcyclists Federation.
His latest book, A Biker's Guide to Consciousness, the Road to Wellbeing and a Meaningful Life can be ordered now on the BOOKS page.
Get in touch
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
Stephen J Preston
Stephen's latest book:
A Biker's Guide to Consciousness
The Road to Wellbeing and a Meaningful Life
Does life have any real meaning or purpose? The answer from many scientists, philosophers and popular atheist media personalities is no. The reason? The pervasive influence of a world view that's known as Scientific Materialism or Physicalism that claims that the universe and everything in it is made out of nothing but physical stuff.
Materialists/Physicalists therefore claim that our consciousness is generated by our brains and is nothing more than the result of electro-chemical activity. Love, loss, anger, hope, joy and sadness are merely the brain’s reaction to external stimuli and any meaning we think they have is just a story we tell ourselves, so we don’t feel utterly hopeless.
In A Biker’s Guide to Consciousness, Stephen Preston argues that this view is not just wrong, but harmful to our mental and physical wellbeing, and is behind much of our ills, from depression to war and the destruction of the environment. Instead, he offers a scientifically and philosophically grounded, non-religious alternative to Materialism that argues that the basis for reality is Consciousness itself, and that the universe and all life is completely interconnected and interdependent.
ORDER PAPERBACK & DIGITAL COPIES ON THE BOOKS PAGE