INTRODUCTION

Here is the introduction to my upcoming e-book. I thought that it might serve the same purpose here.

I’ve always had a hunger to know the inside of reality, to see what makes things tick. This hunger expressed itself in curiosity about toys, tools and devices as well as people and animals and how they work. I’ve been a reader since early childhood and that has provided me with windows into other people, places and times. I had a chance to rub shoulders with ideas that I did not encounter in my immediate surroundings. I’ve been a tinkerer and a hands-on tool user since I was a mere twerp. I picked this up from my Dad. One of my early childhood toys was a truck carburetor that he gave me to tear down and put back together. All of this fed my analytical turn of mind.

By profession, I am a sculptor and a teacher with a fondness for art schools. Being an artist, I am no stranger to examining and inhabiting philosophical worldviews. I’ve delved into psychology, spirituality and consciousness in general through my ever-present reading as well as through meditation and experimentation with states of consciousness. Like all of us, I know things that came from personal experience that I am not able to explain to anyone else.

A few years ago, I began to write rants, articles or essays (whatever you want to call these things) about ideas that are important to me. I did this for my own pleasure and to clarify my own thinking. I have rarely shared any of this stuff with anyone. I was writing for me.

Gradually, I began to suspect that my writings, my thoughts, might have some utility for other people if only as grist for their mills to be used in clarifying their own thoughts. I determined to get this cluster of articles out into the world in the form of an e-book.

I flatter myself by thinking that I have figured out the nature of reality and the place of humans within it. I think that I have solved some human problems and found some broad guidelines about how to live out our human destiny.

Try these ideas on for size. Kick the tires. Take them out for a spin. If any of these thoughts are useful to you, you are welcome to them. If they are not, throw them out. Better yet, propose an alternative.

These articles are written in a kind of personal shorthand. They are suggestive rather than authoritative. I have not taken the time to lay out tightly reasoned arguments so you may have to connect the dots in places. It is my hope that it will be worth your while to do so.

In my heart of hearts, it is my wish that these thoughts can contribute in some small way toward the global evolution of human consciousness that is now underway. When the consciousness of a critical mass of humans shifts, the consciousness of the whole of humanity will flip over as well.

Here’s to a more loving world!