I wrote this book partly because I listened to several others discuss how using Buddhist concepts had them enter a state of despair as to what happened when they tried to accept the world just as it is. That is only a small part way along on the journey to what the Buddha wanted us to go, but some of us do not appear to get the message. Recent Science certainly supports the bigger picture of how this universe, from all aspects ranging from the very, very small to the totality of the universe itself, support our being far from victims and certainly very powerful agents for change in this wonderful, amazing universe. We cannot change the universe directly because it is so very complex and so highly interconnected that our fiddling with one component might blow up many other processes. While we humans are rapidly evolving into Homo spiritus, the loving humans, from the thinking but fearful Homo sapiens, we do not (and never will) know enough to make direct changes and not mess things up very badly indeed. We certainly are far from powerless, or victims, however! We can change our own, local energy fields and do amazing things once we are sufficiently evolved. Locally has a whole new meaning when we are talking about what Mother Theresa used to do to a whole hall full of people. The Dali Lama can do the same thing because of his enormous spiritual presence. There is an explosion in the number of us who are becoming so spiritually-powerful that we can do such things with our personal power. Our real impact, however, is in what we can do to the primary processes of the universe, which are Information-based, not the secondary processes of Energy and matter. In my guided writing, I came to call this essence of the universe Pure Information. It is dimensionless and more thought-like and form-like than what most scientists consider when doing Traditional Science. This essence has long been discussed in Philosophy as The Akashic Field. Evin Lazlo now renames it as The Akasha. This top-down set of fields of Information is everywhere and it instantaneously communicates to everything, everywhere in the universe. It stores all thoughts and actions forever, undiminished and then 'in-forms' Energy and matter as well as our minds. It is this in-forming process that allows the universe to be so well ordered and also to continue to keep all of the universe interconnected as One. We are always adding to this Information, and through it can command great power.
About the Author: I was trained as an Engineering Scientist - that is a Scientist trained in an Engineering faculty. This training emphasizes Science and Mathematics and promotes questioning of every assumption and supposed fact. I initially worked in the aircraft, then spacecraft fields, but branched out into a total of eight fields -.once I polished my skills in helping others find the 'Right' questions to problems long-unsolved. In essence, I was a physical system scientist and took the overview position in groups that were assembled to bring many aspects and skills to big, but as-yet-unsolved problems. After studying the spirituality component of Philosophy, I still spend most of my time trying to identify better questions, and also help others open up their minds and souls to a larger view of both Who we are and Why we are here having human experiences. Through a local group, The Forum on Faith and Science, I developed an overview position on Why we are here and What the universe is really like. In reality we are spiritual beings having human experiences - in a universe that is nothing like what our brains tell us it is. I have written (and am still writing) an array of books that investigate the fusion of both Science and the spirituality component of Philosophy. The Ancient Greeks develop the concept that there were two very different sides to the one coin of all knowledge: one was Science; and the other was Philosophy. The tools that worked best on one side may not work well at all on the other. After years of study, I agree with that point of view and it is an integral part of my writing as Jesuis Laplume (from Je suis la plume, in French, for I am the pen). When 'in the flow, ' I find myself a co-author with the universe, as do many of us who create