Chapter 1. The Opinion Poll. The disarming of knowledge and the abdication of leadership. What is an opinion?
Chapter 2. Understanding Knowledge. Some of the characteristics of knowledge are discussed and why it is feared.
Chapter 3. God, Nature, and Reality. This is a brief history of God's revelation from Biblical times to today. It shows a progression and dimension up to and including the discovery of the scientific method: today's ultimate discovery of God.
Chapter 4. Logic: Dialectic Whatever. Logic, alone, is now dead. To find reality we need logic, but logic, by itself, leads to futility. This is important to understand for logic without scientific knowledge still rules most of our social order.
Chapter 5. The Dilemma of Logic and Ethics. Examples of the futility of logic as applied to ethics.
Chapter 6. The Language of Nature is Science. Some of the mystery and all of the magic are stripped away from life as our ancestors knew it. This is humanity's search for reality and the continued revelation of God.
Chapter 7. Reverence and Faith: The Road To Equanimity. This is basic human psychology described in a way that will intrigue most psychologists. You will be introduced to the "trinity" of Reverence: Identification, Dedication and Humility. The Faith of Realistic Idealism is revealed. You will find out what these mean to the Obligated Social Being: YOU!
Chapter 8. Alienation: The Road to Despair. A fast growing, modern, individual affliction: the affect of ignoring reverence. The proof of its existence.
Chapter 9. What is Truth? In this insightful survey: "Truth" and "Fact" are no longer confused. In a way, Facts are the strands of life while Truth is the fabric of life. The Truths of life are revealed as Love, Beauty, Work, Mystery and Freedom. These become some of the basic priciples of Realistic Idealism.
Chapter 10. Creation. The Bible describes creation in seven days. Why not one? Because, even back then, they knew that it was a process. The Biblical creation was the most up-to-date scientific explanation of the time (it was Aristotle's time). It would have been published in the "Scientific Babylonian". This chapter discusses scientific revelations of the further expansion of God's process.
Chapter 11. Evolution. A discourse on an understandable explanation of a truly beautiful, and, ultimately, obvious process of the development of all life from one miraculous, or perhaps, predestined, cell.
Chapter 12. Ontogeny. Every living thing starts with one cell. This is one of the strongest indications of the existence of the evolutionary process.
Chapter 13. Heritable Behavior and Abilities. Anything that is not heritable is of no evolutionary significance.
Chapter 14. Learning and Motivation. Some important aspects of the process of learning: our only method of absorbing enculturation. This is an overlooked aspect of the "Nature vs. Nurture" debate. How can the debate proceed without an understanding of learning?
Chapter 15. Extinct Humans. Our early ancestors and their rapid evolution from Ramapithicus to Cro-Magnon. We take a side trip with Neanderthal.
Chapter 16. The "Fit and Capable". From our ancestors, we are brought into today with some evolutionary principles of which you may not be aware. The characteristics of the mind are determined by the brain.
Chapter 17. Doctrines. We are alerted to the road blocks to understanding presented by doctrines, especially that of Boaz.
Chapter 18. The Search for Order. This is the introduction to the chapters on the Old and New Testaments. It refers to the order of the analysis of these two books as well as the order of the world according to these two books.
Chapter 19.. The Old Testament: Judaism. Here, the real beginning of the Old Testament (Exodus) is interpreted from a new perspective. Scientific verification is revealed. In hopes of unraveling some of the mystery surrounding one of the basic tenets of western society, the Ten Commandments are explained in a way that give them new and deeper meaning... then and now.
Chapter 20. The New Testament: Christianity. Who was responsible for the crucifixion? An interpretation of the fast growing, broad popularity of the Christian Philosophy based on social evolution. A discussion of a new and additional post-mortum suggestion from The Christ.
Chapter 21. The Practice of Realistic Idealism. We have Love and Compassion. Now we have Knowledge and Creativity for those who are ready.
There are four other chapters included in the complete version: "Family Tradition" examining raising children, physiology and sexual identification, "Crime and Punishment" examining criminal behavior and our justice system from the perspective of evolutionary principles, "Government in Truth" which proposes a realistic approach to governing, and "Closing Thoughts".
I wish you peace, health and happiness. It is not my intent to confuse, alter, or confront those things that you hold dear, but to show you a path that I have found to a better life
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