Preface

Let me begin by thanking you the reader for taking the time to read and consider all the concepts and ideas that are presented in this book. Without a wonder about the world and what lies beneath all that is experienced within it, my words are useless. I will share with you, in intimate terms, my ideas and understandings of the world and its workings. I will also ask you to not take any of the things I convey to you as absolute fact. My primary understanding in this world is that nothing can be completely understood, and nothing is completely concrete in its definition. To seek knowledge I believe, is gaining as much understanding about as many things as possible. Understanding after all works like pixels within an image, by only seeing a few points the picture is incomplete, but the more pixels we have before us, the clearer the image becomes. So I will ask you to continue to wonder about the things I tell you, to take topics even farther in your thoughts than I can express them. It is human nature to seek more than that which we have, and when we seek things that can not be shared we do injustice to one another. Understanding however can never be had in surplus, there is always more understanding that one can have, and in sharing that understanding we improve each other and do others justice. So this book is not something I wanted to do, but something I must do, to share my views with you, and encourage you, my reader, to consider and wonder about all the things around you. It would be an injustice for me to remain silent and deprive you of the message I have to share. Throughout the ages philosophers have sought one single unifying truth that may better all man-kind for understanding. I however challenge them in that goal. By narrowing all things down to one truth, one definition, one purpose, we limit ourselves and make ourselves imperfect. Perfection as I understand it to be is to be without limit. We are imperfect because our lives are limited, our bodies are limited, our societies are limited, but the one thing in us that is not limited, that is perfect, is our minds, or our consciousness. If we so choose we may continually inundate our minds with the understandings of experiences, information, and the imaginings of our own minds and those of others. In that sense, we as people have the capacity to be perfect, but it is our own logic that limits our limitless minds. We think that it is not necessary to understand all that we can within our lifetime, but to merely believe we know enough to get by. So I ask you my friend, please seek perfection of the mind, take my words and continue wondering as I do. I believe I share in the wisdom of the old philosopher, in that I am wise because I know nothing. I ask you as well to admit you know nothing because all that we think we know we merely understand, and what I understand is that with all there is in this world to know, I only understand a miniscule part of it, and understanding is merely a part of knowing, and so I know nothing. So I ask you to continue to wonder as I do, so that someday, we who know nothing may through understanding approach the knowledge of everything.