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About the Author

R. Robin Cote' is a Life Coaching Consultant for Professional and Business People.  He is also an author, lecturer, and creator of (online) The Book of Timeless Truths and Wisdom.®     He is a personal development trainer and a success counselor with over fifteen years of experience.     He has been a student of human potential and self-awareness for the past thirty years.   He is also trained as a mediator.  

Out of his diverse background and his years of study, he has developed a personal success technique he calls "How to Eat An Elephant"^®.   His ability to connect consciously to the inner realms of reality has inspired him to look at life from the distinctive and unusual perspectives presented in all seven of his books.  See the list of Books and their descriptions below on this page.

Officially, Robert is an ordained minister with The Life Center Church, but is certainly not a minister in the traditional sense.   He neither preaches nor has a congregation and does not have a physical church.   To use his words: “Sacred Mother Earth is my church, and the “Infinite Source of All” fills me with love, so I go where I’m called to go and do my work in the world.”

In addition to his personal success coaching and counseling, he takes great joy in creating and officiating custom-designed, wedding ceremonies°   for Southern California couples.

Life Coach / Success Coach:

When you examine the page on this website titled  Our Unique Approach to Coaching,°  you'll see the uniqueness of his approach to life, to personal growth, and to the inevitable, irreversible, planetary transformations that are presently going on all around us.

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Mr. Coté is available as a seminar leader, public speaker, radio or television guest, and/or panel member for discussions regarding: ,

Having written three books, several articles, and created two extensive web sites on the relationship between abortion and religion and having studied and researched the issue for the past fourteen years,  Mr. Coté is one of the most knowledgeable people on the fundamentals underlying the abortion issue.   He is presently available as an expert witness regarding:

Church/State Separation°     

Evolution Versus Christian-creationism°       

 Author's Formal Training     ...

The Author's Formal Training 

Question:  You've never attended seminary training.  What gives you the right and the qualifications to call yourself a minister and speak about God?

Answer:  Regarding my having missed official seminary training, I say it's been a blessing to have missed being indoctrinated into a closed-minded belief system where students are taught what to think and not how to think.   And one other thing, seminary training comes from men and those men come from a lineage that, in  all too many cases, is something to be ashamed of^° and not to be proud of.

I've spent years studying the messages from numerous religious philosophical teachers and learning the art of living.   After twenty-five years of study and experience, I now feel qualified to wear the title, reverend.   If you or anybody else disapproves, you'd be wise to look inside yourself and find the source of your disapproval.     

In terms of my legal status,  that's also an issue of men.   I am officially ordained as a minister (a Spiritual and Life Consultant) with a state and federally recognized non-profit church corporation called "The Life Center."

Speaking About God:  And let me assure you that nobody, myself included, speaks about God.   We speak about our beliefs about God; we offer speculation, and conjecture about God; and we tell stories that we like to think of as the truth about God, but  whatever that unknown and unknowable source is, it's beyond our human understanding.   It's beyond our capacity to say anything with certainty.   It transcends provability.   It's uncertainty to the nth degree.   It's the ultimate mystery of life.   So I assure you that neither I, nor anybody else, speaks about God.   (Readers are invited to view the page titled:   Spiritual Awareness^°  and the page titled:   Faith.^° )  

From what I've learned over the years,  I see no evidence that "The-Source-of-life-and-the-Universe" is concerned about what I do or don't do.   I, like everyone else, appear to be a part of something greater and grander and wiser than I am as a human being.    The guidance for my behavior seems to come from an inner knowing of what is right, just, wise, and loving.   You may call that:  "Knowing what God wants."   You could even stretch that to say,  "I know what God wants me to do,"  but for anybody  to say that they know what God wants somebody else to do is either foolishness or it's an outright con job.

Religions have created an image of God as a super-human being sitting above the clouds in a place called heaven.   And of course God is of the masculine gender.  From heaven, He dictates orders, creates miracles, and hires true believers to punish the unfaithful.    

I speak not about God, but rather about the hypocrisy,  the half-truths, the lies of commission, and the lies of omission that are daily peddled by men who claim to be speaking for God and claim to know what God wants them and you to do.   I feel called to challenge these assaults on the truth.

(Readers are also invited to view the page titled: For Whom Do You Speak, and On Whose authority.^°

A Personal Story:    Let me share a personal story with you and see if you had a similar experience in your life.   As a child I, like everyone else,  was brought up in a particular culture with its own set of beliefs and behaviors.  In my case, it was working class, east-coast American with strong Roman Catholic beliefs.   I assumed that my family's beliefs and behaviors were normal.   I also thought that everybody else was pretty much as we were.   What differences I was aware of were relatively minor.   Some people had more money than we did, and some people went to a different local church.  I knew that people in far off places had different ways of living, but my  knowledge of those differences went only as far as a parental admonition,  "Eat your spinach, because people in India were starving."    

What I didn't find out until I was older was that other people's cultures, beliefs, and behaviors were significantly different from mine, and that what I considered to be  normal was considered by some people to be deviant and strange.  

1*  How to Eat an Elephant®     -- 

A guide book for playing the Game Called Life.   

This book teaches you how to work smart not hard -- how to create by intention rather than by default -- how to create from joyous expectancy of what you do want and not from fear of getting what you don't want.   It's the heart of fifteen years of Personal Success Coaching and  Life Coaching  condensed into a single book.   The book has been temporarily withdrawn from distribution while it is being revised.   

A book of thoughts and ideas from the great men and women of history -- plus many Universal Truths -- plus  numerous new ideas, including several previously untapped possibilities -- plus some  unusual perspectives on several controversial issues -- plus other ideas that you've probably not yet heard of.

Robin is the book's Executive Editor.  He is also a major contributor to the controversial section of the book titled, "Views from the Other Side of Life."   The entire  book is available FREE to everyone on the Internet.   The website address is <http://www.truth101.org> °  

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 Romance and Relationships       ...

Books  Related to 
       Romance, Relationships, 
           and the Intimate Love Arts

A self-awareness story about life, love, 
romance and the intimate love arts.

This book is a combined novel and instruction manual.   It's a "How to..."  book about all those things your parents never taught you.    It's also a tale about the rapidly growing social phenomenon know as Caring and Loving Intimacy Connections.   In The Yoni Dance,^® dozens of personal-success techniques and practices, are described in a fictional setting, but they are, nonetheless, actual, practical, and usable ways to accomplish one’s goals, sexual and otherwise.   

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4*  Abortion -- The Secret Religious War®      

This book offers readers a view of abortion without the illusions, without the unprovable assumptions, and without the media hype.   It offers an in-depth look at the forced motherhood controversy from a perspective that few people have previously considered.   

The book is not a book in the traditional sense.    It presently consists of approximately three hundred and fifty (350) web pages on two websites.   The website addresses are:
          <http://www.choice101.com> °   and 
         <http://www.pro-truth.net> °  

This book  (a serious, but light-hearted look at the abortion controversy)  offers a perspective on abortion that few people have previously examined.   A summary of the book and an introduction to this extremely complicated and controversial issue can be found on the page titled,  An Interview with  "The Devil." °    

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As part of a Special Forces Team, on October 31, 1972, at 11:30 pm, under the code name Papa Bear^®,  Tony - - - - - -  parachuted into the North Vietnamese jungle.   He spent  three years there playing a deadly cat and mouse game with the Viet Cong.   

Of the dozens of special forces troopers sent behind enemy lines for extended duty, he is the only one who survived and returned to talk about it.   His memories were so terrible that for over twenty-five years, this story remained buried in his mind.   Only because I am a personal friend of his was I able to bring it to the surface and get him to talk about it..  This is a true Vietnam story I'll guarantee you've never heard before.   Click Here °  for an  excerpt from the book.  

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Almost every villain is a maniacal, egocentric, atheistic lunatic who already has more money than he could spend in 400 lifetimes, and yet, there he is doing evil for more money, which by the end of the story gets him killed and sent off to hell.   

Wouldn't you think that after eighty years of movies and centuries of novels, that someone could come up with a different way of putting the traditional  bad guy out of the evil-pedaling business?   Well, in the novel, Listen^®  does just that.  

 Unfortunately, I can't tell you how that is accomplished until  the novel is completely written and accepted by a publisher.

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Quotes From Robin

l    Some startling and conflicting conclusions are revealed when viewing  Evolution ,    The Death Penalty,     Abortion,    and  Human Cloning   from each of the three basic perspectives on life, Atheism,     Christian one-life-ism,    and  Reincarnation.    Each belief system offers its own meaning, suggests different implications, and comes to conclusions that directly contradict the other two.

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