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EDITOR COMMENTS
Creating this Web Site has been a learning challenge. It has been a frustrating struggle at times as well as satisfying and rewarding at other times. It's my attempt to formulate an internally consistent and plausible personal world view or belief system and to share it with anyone who might be interested with the hope that it may help other individuals develop their own. It has no purpose or agenda other then to share ideas, thoughts, concepts, theories, and to stimulate personal introspection. Now that I've somewhat mastered the mechanics for creating and maintaining this Web Site, it is becoming more fun to reformulate and add new material. I will attempt to respond to emails personally as well as I can.
There are many wonderful and inspirational ideas, thoughts, and concepts buried in scientific and philosophic literature. Much of this literature originates from teachers, scholars, professors, and scientists of colleges and universities. To a large degree this literature tends to be couched in academic terms, words and phrases most unfamiliar, distracting, and confusing to the general populace. In order for those with lesser academic training to understand and experience the inspirational revelations offered through such literature, the literature must be translated into language and terms understandable to the layman.
In this Website, I have attempted to convey in layman's terms what I considered most relevant in many academic books I've read. Some of these books I found stimulating, fascinating, and enlightening of thought. I highlighted, underlined, took notes, and reviewed the best of them many times. Ultimately I felt it important enough to try to condense, summarize, and synthesize some of the material I encountered into words and terms more easily grasped by the interested layman. For example, I tried to work around such terms as autopoiesis, morphongenesis, vitalism, ontology, and epistemology that are not part of the everyday vocabulary of the ordinary person. Such terms do not illicit immediate meaning when read by the non academic reader and thus interrupts the thought flow of the text.
In the process I also took some liberty of adding some of my own interpretations and ideas garnered from my readings. Some of those readings are listed in the Bibliography. I hope what I have done here will stimulate thought and encourage the reader to reach out and try some of these books. It is only by sharing such experiences that we can grow intellectually through understanding the physical reality we are all temporarily embedded in.
You will probably tend to experience a degree of repetition in the material. But repetition is a teaching device to help us remember important ideas, concepts, and principles that are easily forgotten. But, each repetition is slightly different in nuance and in meaning for understanding relationships and interconnections. Certain Items of importance in the text will reappear in different form and context. This is to help us to ingrain in our minds certain principles that should never be forgotten but always carried over to whatever we may contemplate in the future--to help us remember how it all is; how it all is interconnected.
A Footnote to "True" Believers:
If the Bible, the Koran, or the Torah is the only source of absolute ultimate truth acceptable to you, then this Website is not for you. If you cannot accept the possibility that the process of evolution is one of many tools created by and used by the creator to create us and the physical reality we find ourselves temporarily imbedded in, then again this Website is not for you. To be of value, this booklet requires the readiness and ability to develop an open rational approach to understanding our spiritual connection--the ability to let go of blind beliefs that we cling to, that entrap us, that impede our spiritual growth and understanding.
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