If
a man sets out to do a thing, it behooves him to let others know just what it
is he is setting out to do. So with
reference to this log, this is my best stab at explaining what it is about.
We live in a dis-integrated and
distracted world—it is a truth universally acknowledged. This log is about my quest, in the face of
all the disintegration going on around us, to reintegrate my world—which is
only my experience of THE world. I won’t
tell you how to fix your life; you already have too many people, both online
and off, claiming to be able to do that.
What I will share is my own humble insights into how, in this massive
cosmos, it really does all fit together and ultimately make some kind of sense,
even if not always the kind of sense we would prefer.
I am convinced of the truth of that
ancient wisdom that one cannot understand anything unless one first understands
everything. That is, without an overall
framework into which to fit all the data of our experience, some way of giving
us perspective, we cannot really make sense of it all. I spent years trying to find a perspective, a
point of view, that would allow me to make sense of it all (I got 3 master’s
degrees so you wouldn’t have to). The
essays published here are an attempt to articulate what I finally found.
So if you are wondering how to make
sense of this world we live in; wondering how we can bring science and the
spiritual together; wondering how you can still believe in angels and other
ministers of grace in a cosmos so vast and strange as the one science reveals
to us; If you would marry tradition to progress, scientific literacy to
philosophical clarity—with poetry not to be left out; if you, like me, are
trying to make sense of the Whole of things, to reintegrate it all, that is
what all this space is about.
