Author:

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.

Wedding Officiant:

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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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 ² and the page titled:   Faith.² )  One might also see one's relationship to God more clearly by reading the brief story called:  The Spider on My Wall.²  

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 running a con-the-suckers game.

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.

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For additional insights into Robert (Robin) Coté's a personal background, please see the section titled:  The Author's Personal Search For Faith.²      

(Readers are also invited to view the page titled: For Whom Do You Speak, and On Whose authority.² 

Sources of Knowledge and Wisdom:    

Rev, cote has been asked where the information comes from that is oh his websites.   Here's the essence of his response:

If you choose to master any field of endeavor, there are there pathways.   The true masters use all three.   First one studies the existing knowledge.   Second one experiments in the physical world and finds things that were previously unknown. 

Third, one taps into the universal source of all that is and acquires previously unknown knowledge and understandings of his her field of study.   He / she then takes that knowledge and applies it to the physical world as a hypothesis to see in the information is complete and accurate -- to see if and how it works.   

One can put existing things together in new ways.   

One can look for information that is implied by the existing data.  

One can ask  "Source" for information.   

One can expand on existing information using a combination of all the ways mentioned above.  

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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.  

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Quotes From Robert:

  The game of life plays you until you learn to play the game.

  Either I am a lunatic whose ideas will disappear without a trace or a visionary whose vision represents the future of humanity.

  Life is filled with significance and meaning, all of which is insignificant and meaningless.

  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.

  When one percent of the population controls ninety percent of the wealth, 
(as is the case in the United States) it doesn't take a genius to figure out 
that something is seriously wrong.   

  In a closed mind, the truth is no match for a good fantasy.   In an open mind, even the grandest fantasy is no match for the truth.

When I have moved on, what would I like my memory line to be:    

"He sprinkled little bits of wisdom all over life where they could be picked up and applied to dozens of  in-the-moment moments."   

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