MOUNTAIN PEEKS

In just about every book you pick up to read, information is set forth that has the raw potential to affect you, the reading inquirer, in a variety of ways. This particular book is perhaps especially like that, since it covers a wide range of topics, and spans a plethora of perception. And it will frequently swerve far from the mainstream of conventional thinking.

As to the general thought presented, some of it contained herein will no doubt make you want to yawn. You will already personally know what I am suggesting about something, and maybe even considerably more on it than I do. You will wonder why I bothered to express an idea that was so obvious, so basic, so simple.

Perhaps the very next thought will cause you to bristle; you won’t appreciate or respect the point. You will not agree. You will see it differently.

You will object to the very insinuation that I would have thought to write it down.

At some point, you might start to wonder about me, the imperfect amateur writer-thinker-theorist-philosopher that I am.

…Still other thoughts will mildly pass in your book as either amusing or entertaining or at least worth as much time to you had you spent the same amount of time petting your cat. Every book has plenty of that, this one no doubt, included.

Finally though – and this “finally” is why I applied myself very diligently to get this quite lengthy work written – there will be the occasion when you will feel refreshed with the breeze of an enlightening concept; it will smack you in a soft spot, as you experience the euphoria of having had your mind stimulated, and your spirits lifted.

For these times, the book was written, and in those (few or many) instances, you will openly be openly thankful, just as I was grateful to the Universe for showing to me these things in the first place.

Living a full life is, in many ways, a matter of simply passing on intelligent logic and inspiring hope, doing so in the form of core concepts, to those who come after we do.

I sincerely hope we are able to do some of that for you here.

…I chose a dictionary-style compilation as a format, and hope that this does not come to annoy you too much. I found that I could best “observe” on a wide variety of areas in life by so doing.

It is not recommended that you read in any particular order – cover-to-cover is not so bad for flow – although you might also use it in a scanning fashion, as you would use any small dictionary. I don’t really care; I would just hope that you enjoy it, and to create any particular reading “rules” for the use of this book would violate my general rule of not having to rely too much on rules in the first place…

So, if you want to just dabble here and there, that should work out for you. Simply to read freely is the fun of this kind of investigative learning.

Please don’t look too closely for groups of organizing themes. Sometimes logic flows unevenly, and inspiration emerges sporadically. In the cumbersomeness of this herky-jerky stream of consciousness, logic and inspiration should rise up to meet you somewhere along the way.

I confess that the book hardly came along as some kind of channeled work. No man or god spoke through me, and I would never profess that it did. Nor did it arrive out of relentless research and organization; I am not that kind of a book-learned student of life, though I can fully respect those who are.

I just wrote…when I thought to, and what I felt to write about.

I do, however, claim a method (to the madness?), and it was that, along with the many other books I have written, I tapped what was within me already, and mined the thoughts therein. The creative energy that pre-exists in each of us (as we are all collections of one another, and of the logic of the Universe) was in some small way then harvested.

My private world within me, unconscious and uncut, then, brought forth these many thoughts, while I simply waited upon them, mind fully engaged…fingertips poised…keyboard in hand.