{"product_id":"reality-matters-what-you-owe-yourself-9798995775652","title":"Reality Matters: What You Owe Yourself","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if everything you were taught was built on ground that isn't there?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost of what you believe, you were handed as a child - by people who never looked down to see whether the ground beneath their certainty was actually there. \u003ci\u003eReality Matters\u003c\/i\u003e is an invitation, and a provocation, to look down now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this unflinching book, Richard Hatch turns a single ruthless question on the things we are taught never to question - our bodies, our gods, our governments, our deaths. Not \u003ci\u003edoes this feel true?\u003c\/i\u003e but \u003ci\u003eis it actually true?\u003c\/i\u003e What follows is not comfortable. It was never meant to be. Comfort, he argues, is precisely what our institutions sell us in place of what is real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou may know Richard Hatch as the original winner of \u003ci\u003eSurvivor\u003c\/i\u003e - the man tens of millions watched win the first season of the show that reshaped television. What they don't know is the man who wrote this book: someone whose most meaningful work has taken place far from any camera, forged over two decades of paying a specific, personal price for the simple act of living honestly. He writes not from the safety of theory but from hard-won experience, with the same clear-eyed attention to what is actually there that once made him impossible to beat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a demolition. On the other side of the discomfort is something those institutions are built to obscure, and something we are conditioned to avoid: ourselves, accurately seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is not a small thing. That is, in fact, everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Deeper Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798995775652\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Richard Hatch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934428229813,"sku":"9798995775652","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/reality-matters-what-you-owe-yourself-9798995775652","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}