Excerpt from

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

by William Samuel

OLD LANDMARKS AND IDENTITY

Many years ago, believing I had left the hallowed halls of theology forever to explore the loftier towers of metaphysics, I wrote a long paper on Identity. It was a hundred pages of theological and metaphysical discussion that few, if any, including myself, fully understood. Then, years later, nineteen years ago, after many Glimpses of new light, many Gordian Knots untied, retied, and untied again, I wrote of my most "absolute" discoveries and of the subjective views they permitted. That book had but a single chapter on Identity.

Today, having found that one does not leave old landmarks but takes their wisdom with him to continually resurvey a single Scene from ever higher perspectives, I write once more of Identity—what it is, where it is, what it does, how I found it and what I learned to do with it when it was truly found.

Now I speak of Identity in a single word—Child. What I did to find Myself can be written in a simple, old/new equation. While it isn't certain how many will find the word or understand the equation, it is important that these things be written, clearly and simply, so they will be meaningful to those who are SEARCHING.

QUANTUM MAN TODAY AND THE RIVER OF LIFE

Present civilization and its organizations (religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, financial) are like the great bend in the river of life just before the shallows ahead—just before the unsuspected turbulence of subjectivism when life roars through the narrow passages. Historic education—religious education in particular—has paid little attention to its prophets. It has deemed subjectivism too unsettling and difficult to teach. Our temptation is to hang on to the old ways where few demands are made and the familiar pacifies us. But the River of Life is moving relentlessly in growing, ongoing information, and the River of Life includes the rapids of metaphysical subjectivism whether churchdom and science want to examine it and tell of it or not. As content as we might be in our religious views—or in avoiding spiritual matters altogether as so many do—the end of the quiet time looms for everyone. We are approaching a New View of things. The world is already caught in the swift flow of quantum information leading to new knowledge and strange, startling vistas.

For the new perspectives being thrust upon us, neither the objective studies of religion nor the subjective studies of metaphysics, as they are presented today, will be adequate. The tumult we are already facing insists that mankind, if he is to survive, begin to think in a new way. Humanity, with its physical sciences leading, is soon to confirm the insubstantial nature of matter and time.

PROUD SCIENTISTS AND METAPHYSICIANS

Even beyond the turbulence of subjectivism, there are sticking places where physical scientists and metaphysicians are loitering along the banks, wading in the shallows of arrogance and self-superiority. In this world of appearances, metaphysicians wax, wane and suffer no less than anyone else and, in the end, they find their brands of subjectivism inadequately meeting their own needs, much less the needs of the world. Caught in the sterile void of "absoluteness," the suffering subjectivist faces an awful anguish and wonders why his metaphysics does not work as it did in the beginning, why his organizations languish and why there are no more answers now than a hundred years ago. This book is for the metaphysician, the physicist and astronomer who want more Light—and the answers to those questions.

Once I wrote of the chemical insanity that would smash the world—and it did. Now I speak of a new madness in the name of pseudo-metaphysics to shake the world, wherein much of mankind will find its faith in everything shattered, unable to find God's good in anything, anywhere, outside himself. Completely unaware of it, the bastions of legitimate subjectivism face an attack from every quarter by an insecure and threatened "religion," in the NAME of religion which isn't working either. The only ones who won't be conquered in the melee already begun, objectivist and subjectivist alike, will be those who have moved onward in their studies to FIND the Light of the Child within themselves and follow Its leadings rather than the world's.

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