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
Something is wrong, and you know it.
You just don't know what it is — or how to fix it.
That's where Hicks comes in. Twenty-seven years ago, after being diagnosed with a heart condition at twenty-nine, Robert Hicks went looking for answers to life's biggest questions.
He started with every near-death experience account he could find. Then came the rest of it — aliens, regression hypnosis, channeled material, parallel realities, psychic mediums, alternative medicine. Heck he even tried tarot cards. The entire library of subjects most people are afraid to take seriously.
But buried in all of it, he found something: patterns, not just in data, but in the personal accounts of others that the self-help gurus had missed, dismissed, or chose to ignore altogether. After years of cross-verification, with an open mind and a healthy dose of science-based scrutiny, he assembled a single coherent framework — and decided it was too valuable to keep to himself.
The Great Recalibration is an evidence-based, common-sense guide to what's actually destroying your happiness — and how to fix it. Not regurgitated psychobabble or religious dogma. Something refreshing and new.
The truth.
Why you're depressed. Why traditional religion stopped working for you. What actually happens when you die. Why reincarnation has nothing to do with karma. Why prayer and manifesting aren't working. Why your "wants" are lying to you. Why we might be in a simulation. And why help may be coming from a very unexpected source.
There is no other book out there like this. Period.
This isn't just a diagnosis or some cute foo-foo toolkit — it's a wrecking ball.
Part One is aptly called, The 'Religious-mess' Dogma Disaster. Why? Because experiencers paint a very different picture of God, heaven, and hell than the version that's been sold to you.
Part Two is The Recalibration, introducing you to the reality that's been hidden from you. The truth about destiny vs. free will, reincarnation, karma, the actual result of prayer and manifesting, and more.
Part Three is the repair crew — Hick's personal Happiness Hacks. A set of practical, tested, easy-to-use techniques that pulled Hicks out of his own pit of misery.
And it will do the same for you.
Recalibrating your worldview requires evidence, and this book provides plenty of it. The delivery is direct, conversational, and a hell of a lot funnier than you'd expect from a book about metaphysics, religion, and psychology
Hicks has a Master's degree in Psychology and is currently putting it to great use as a grill cook at Chipotle. He's lived the dream and the nightmare and is wiser for it. He shares that wisdom with you in this book. The framework works — and it's about to be tested to its absolute limit during his upcoming prison sentence.
Yes, prison.
If you've tried everything: therapy, meditation, religion, experts, and a shelf full of now dusty, self-help books and none of it landed, then it's time to try something NEW. You know the definition of insanity, right? Exactly.
And if you're a skeptic? Good. So is Hicks. Hicks lays out the evidence but trusts the reader to reach their own conclusions. Because the truth was never the problem.
It's just that nobody ever had the guts to tell you what it was.
Or how to fix it.

Part One
The 'Religious-mess' Dogma Disaster. Experiencers paint a very different picture of God, heaven, and hell than the story that's been sold to you.
Part Two
The Recalibration — introducing you to the actual reality you live in. The truth about destiny vs. free will, reincarnation, karma, the surprising results of prayer and manifesting, and more.
Part Three
Happiness Hacks — practical, tested techniques that pulled Hicks out of his own pit of misery.
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Table of Contents
29 Chapters. 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: My 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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