Look and Listen

Biography

Just an ordinary guy given some extraordinarily insights after 64 years of observing life and wondering why it is as it is. This is of course something we all delve into to one extent or another. It's time to contribute to that avocation with what I've learned for anyone who might be interested. This eBook is about it's message, not it's messenger, hence the use of Anonymous Author. http://www.therealitycode.com

Inspiration

Excerpt from the book's Preface: This book is the culmination of a compulsion that began in 1954, when I received a much wanted telescope for Christmas. I wanted to see Heaven; more specifically, I wanted to see God. God was in heaven I had been taught, so in the mind of the eight year old I was then, it seemed perfectly logical that a telescope was the obvious tool needed to complete my search. Needless to say, I didn’t see God, but it didn't take me too long to figure out how really practical a telescope might still be. The local teenage beauty lived across the street. What began as an intellectual pursuit turned into a hormonal one. Fortunately for her, because my vantage point in the attic was too high, I became expert only on the architecture of her feet, for which I soon lost all interest. These two experiences were the highlight of my eighth year. Never the less, 1954 was a keystone in my life, for it was then that I became confronted with two of life's greatest mysteries; questioning the existence of myself and everything around me, and having to deal with my sexuality. I naturally had no idea then about how these two topics were destined to become such great sources of dilemma, confusion, and frustration in the years to follow. My life, while naturally unique to me, is I'm sure not too unlike your life, at least in general ways. Hardships, tragedies, sorrows, disappointments, regrets, and failures, all intermixed, fortunately, with joys, triumphs, achievements, successes, and those periods in which we are contented, have filled the time between birth and the present. All these experiences come to each of us in various degrees of intensity and duration. I began my awareness of my existence, that is, the point where I began to realize I could think objectively, even if not always realistically and reach conclusions about my life, with an abundant curiosity about who and what I was, and how this existence came to be. Most of this curiosity stemmed initially from my early religious teachings. The Bible stories I was taught were fascinating, and to think they were part of the human experience filled me with great awe and wonder. For a sample Chapter, please go to http://www.therealitycode.com