Introductory Notes:



These are troubling times, and are growing more so with each passing year of my life. Because of a chronic illness that forced an early disability retirement, I've had the last seven or eight years to largely devote to the leisure time pursuit of subjects of interest, using the internet as a research tool. The quantities of material to be found on the internet make it possible for ordinary people to research and learn in few weeks or months what it once took one a PhD and a lifetime to learn with traditional library tools.

Although never being interested in material degrees or purely technical pursuits, I have delved deeply into areas of philosophy, government, economics, politics, ancient, medieval and modern history, metaphysics, religion, spirituality that have always held fascination for me. I hoped that if I put enough interdisciplinary insights together I might find answers to some of our most troubling issues of modern life in a nuclear age.

The good news is that I did find answers to the deepest and most persistent questions in the above realms. The bad news is that childless and unable to physically socialize and discuss my insights, I felt like most of what I'd learned would go with me to my earthly grave.

Since I've never published a book, or done much research about how to do so, this is my primary legacy for now. I hope to share some of my most important and relevant discoveries and insights with the reader on myriads of topics of pressing interests at the beginning of this 21st century - the new millennium.

And yes, we are entering a new millennium, a new age, a new time, a new direction. When Columbus set out to find a new route to India just over 400 years ago he opened up a whole new world that has developed as the Americas. At this time, there is little physical or external exploration left to be done on this planet. However, there is much internal and spiritual exploration and development that mankind must accomplish, and accomplish fairly rapidly, if we are to survive without re-entering another long age of darkness similar to that which fell on the earth after the collapse of Roman civilization about 1600 years ago.

The next few years, perhaps a few decades, will decide that fate. Our decisions will determine the kind of world we will leave for our children and grandchildren. Will it be a world we will be able to point to with satisfaction? Or will it be one we would not want to inherit ourselves, much less leave to our heirs?

Jere L Hough