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The Child Within Us Lives! A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics

By William Samuel

Da Shan, Mythical Mountain of Seeking and Finding

SPECIAL NOTE TO THE READER

THE TRUTH IS NOT THAT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND

It will be immediately rewarding if the reader will let go the popular belief that “metaphysics” or “subjectivism” is a difficult subject to understand. It is NOT. We shall prove that in the pages ahead.

The idea that the deepest “Truth” is abstruse and difficult is a myth unintentionally projected by fine people who, for the most part, have had undiscerning teachers or inadequate, incomplete textbooks written before the Truth had been fully revealed to and confirmed by their authors. For centuries we've heard the Truth misstated or adulterated by well-intentioned teachers who didn't have the least idea what they were really talking about and whose unsupported, unproven commentary couldn't be comprehended, much less put to the test. For years we've studied or tried to study inconsistent philosophies that do not hold up under reasoned, rational analysis. I doubt that the Almighty can make sense of much that is written and shouted in the name of Truth. But metaphysics, as it actually is, is not a difficult concept to understand. Our capacity to understand subjectivism is growing in each of us daily. It is a clock turning on within us whose time has come.

Just as school children hear about the supposed horrors of geometry or Shakespeare, thence to avoid those subjects if they possibly can, exactly so mankind through the ages has avoided in-depth studies of science, religion, philosophy, metaphysics or Truth, afraid he couldn't understand them and unwilling to make the effort he believed necessary to comprehend. It has been such fear of theology that has kept so many from a study of it. It is the misinformation concerning metaphysics that keeps scientists and religionists from examining the worth of subjectivism. And certainly the distorted “junque” one finds in metaphysical works keeps students who are searching from arriving at the green fields of simplicity just ABOVE theology and metaphysics where the Goals of all our studies are met.

Throughout my life I have delighted in pointing to the underlying essences of religion and philosophy so they could be understood. I have made the intricacies of metaphysics perfectly plain to those who have come to study with me. Not one has failed to comprehend whatever was necessary to resolve his questions and wonderment of the moment. It will be the same for the the reader of this book. Truth is not trying to evade our search. It discloses itself to a willing heart. We ask and are given the answers. We seek and find.

We are all natural philosophers, effortlessly living a divine philosophy which is intermingled with our own ideas—and we are doing this every minute of the day. We are all natural subjectivists as certainly as objectivists, and we are being both of them simultaneously to one degree or another. For instance, I look across Woodsong's meadow and see a tree. That tree is an object in my view. Simply observing it and being one who believes in God, I am an objective religionist. Ah, but listen, listen: aware that the tree is “beautiful” and “alive” and of a certain dignity and grace—or anything else concerning the essences of that tree—I am simultaneously thinking and observing subjectively. Hence, I am also a natural philosopher and metaphysician living my subjectivism. So is the reader thinking about these words. The forthright fact is that none of us with the least spiritual inclination can look at or think about anything without being a philosopher, a metaphysician, whether we have ever read a single spiritual book or not. As quickly as you and I define our terms herein. We will be walking in the same meadow of mind. It will be helpful for the reader to substitute his own words for those of mine which may seem unfamiliar at first.

The study of metaphysics as a science may seem a complex subject to grasp intellectually—that depending on whose version of Truth it is—but to understand and live as a natural philosopher-metaphysician and MORE is not only easy but unavoidable. Furthermore, it is essential. The world, as it is, is soon to erupt in our faces. A new mode of mentation is on the way.

Reader, do not wonder whether or not you are spiritual enough or intelligent enough—or have enough faith—to understand the Truth. You will understand it. You were meant to understand the Truth from the beginning of time, whether you consider yourself religious or not, intelligent or not. Does a flower have enough intelligence to bloom? Actually, you understand already. There is something deep within all of us that knows already. Yes, there is Something Wonderful in the midst of us that understands the discipline of the world and the important issues of life it includes. That knowing is ready to spring up and break out into our daily affairs and make life rich and meaningful again. This volume is intended to prove that.

Woodsong on the Hill, 1986

The Child Within Us Lives! A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics
By William Samuel

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