Excerpts from The Book of Love:

The High Road

Ready?

OK, here we go:

Back to the very beginning......and life as it really is.

Why are we here? Simply to exist, experience life, reproduce and die?

Maybe.

It sure looks like that's why everything else is here---trees, flowers, creepy crawlies, fish, animals, birds and bees---30 million different kinds of things that live, and yet, 99% of ALL species that have ever lived on planet Earth are extinct.

GONE! (or as my delightful children's character Pussyraptor would say, "GONE-SES!").

Do snakes go to heaven? (I hope not...or I'll have some explaining to do about that episode in Baja). Or do they simply die, like everything else? What happens to us?

Well, we know we die like everything else....but then what happens? Anything? Nothing?

One of the two.

Let's see if we can figure this all out by looking without and then looking within for some kinds of evidence. There must be some clues somewhere.

The first place to look is all around us. What do we see? Where, exactly, are we? We see life, we see planet Earth, and at night we see........THE UNIVERSE.
Cha-CHINNNG!
You're not on the Low Road anymore....there are no potholes here, only limitless possibilities. You already possess all the secrets of life.
You always have.

As you read this, remember: if it feels right, it probably is right.

Let's begin.

The Purpose of Your Life

The Ultimate Game--and the Mechanics of Life

Everything we do in life, everything we are (including snakes), is a complete reflection---a mirror image---a microcosm---a model, if you will, of Existence. We are in 'miniature' what Existence is in 'maxiature.'

It's only recently that 'our' civilized, educated biologists and ecologists 'discovered' that our eco-system is totally integrated, with everything affecting everything else in the balance of nature. Something any native in any jungle, rain forest, or plains could have told us forty thousand years ago. Western civilization likes to measure things and places little credence on 'feeling' things (very male).

'If it can't be measured then it can't exist.' Yeah, OK.

Here's a measurement for you: 99% of our DNA is EXACTLY the same as that of a chimpanzee, and 60% of our DNA is EXACTLY the same as a banana. How do you like them apples? (I wonder if we're closer to an apple...or a banana??).

Try to clear your mind of all your thoughts and take some time to look in your garden, walk in the park, or get out into the countryside and plonk yourself down somewhere and look---LOOK at all the life around you....at all the little miracles crawling around and springing up everywhere you gaze your eyes. Let what you see wash over you. You are life and you are surrounded by life---it's unstoppable, it's ubiquitous, it's The Whole Enchilada (I hope you like Mexican food). It's all connected. We are all part of each other because it's the same force that drives us all.

Don't read the rest of this book until you have done this.

I'm serious.

How was it? Did you see anything you haven't seen before? Maybe you were humbled, maybe you felt peaceful, maybe you felt a part of it all. I hope so (maybe it was pouring with rain and all muddy and you got soaked, or it was freezing and you've got the sniffles). At least something happened.