<p>This book tells the story of how more than fifty years ago I began an adventure whose final end no one can predict or foresee. At that time I was a VPI state university co-op student where I alternated quarters between Virginia Tech in winter and summer and the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama in the spring and fall. There at the Space Flight Center I worked as an engineering aide in our efforts to put a man on the moon. Inspired by my Space Flight Center experience and by several other features of campus life, including membership in the military corps of cadets, I soon found myself involved in another equally unprecedented project of even wider scope, a moon-shot of another kind. This new project arose from a combination of factors, including my scientific training, religious and philosophical education, confrontations with VPI's philosophy professors and huge, mind-bending, sanity-threatening mystical experiences, all brought about by a single startling, fundamental discovery. What follows is a tale of the most radical project philosophy has seen in centuries, or perhaps since philosophers first began to examine human life and the cosmos under the light of reason. We experience a complex human adventure that turns into a flanking end run around the entire history of both science and philosophy, an end run around everything ever thought or done in either subject. This journey finally establishes speculative metaphysics as a "hard" science, a study of the most fundamental branch of philosophy that for the first time ever manages to fulfill the requirements of the scientific method. This scarcely-imagined new science of metaphysics then enables us to begin finding good answers to some of the biggest questions anyone can ever ask. Now we have the tools to find reliable, comprehensible solutions to mysteries regarding the ultimate nature of reality, the purpose and extent of consciousness and life, the nature of our links to ultimate infinity together with the emergence of primordial existence in that environment before nature of any sort began, what some would call Creation.Not surprisingly, the level of curiosity and ambition needed to make discoveries this far off the beaten path can only be brought about by psychological factors equally radical, forceful and strange. Extreme events entail extreme drama. The fullest understanding of the events requires an understanding of the drama, so that we may know what we are talking about, what we are aiming at and why it is as important as it is. That is why the present volume comes in two parts. The first part is an autobiographical section that gives the background and relates the shocks, the struggles and the explosive epiphanies that drove the search into the novel directions it took, that kept the author resolutely at the task for unsupported decades, a half-century and counting. The second part is a section presenting the scientific theory itself, the theory of the trinity, the first fully scientific theory in the otherwise-speculative field of metaphysics. The initial autobiographical part reads like a novel; the final scientific section is as direct, comprehensible and plain-spoken as I can make it. It's time. Religion and science no longer have to be at conceptual loggerheads, fighting each other with flatly contradictory paradigms of the nature of reality and the meaning of life. Truth is One; Ultimate Simplicity by its nature is accessible to everyone, and always has been. And the history of science reveals a succession of deep surprises and stunning reverses. Read on then, and see for yourself what can be won by a straightforward and protracted frontal attack in an area where for thousands of years hardly anyone believed success was possible at all.</p>

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