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One Iota of the Big Picture

by M.J. Lucas

159 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-0029; ISBN 1-55395-666-4; US$19.99, C$22.99, EUR16.42, £11.50

Ever wondered, how to make sense out of the world we Live in? Or how to achieve more happiness in your life? It's in the book, you'll probably be surprised by the answer.

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about the book      about the author      excerpts and Table of Contents      catalogue info

About the Book

If you're happy with your life the way it is, this book is probably a waste of time for you.

But if you are somebody who is looking for answers to questions and you like to expand your perspective, it's right for you.

From the origin of our universe to the structure of our societies from ancient civilizations to the blue print of human beings, from our life support system to globalization, it explains how everything is based on the same 5 basic laws of nature and their relevance to our lives as human beings.

It provides answers to the questions why we are doing this and that, how the human mind works and where the mental mistakes are and how to get rid of them.

As a focal point it explains a way of thinking, which is based on the laws of nature, instead of our self-made rules and because of this can lead to an attitude of live and let live and with that a happier and more balanced life.

It provokes many thoughts and touches many subjects.

No matter who you are, or what you're doing, you'll find something in it for you.

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About the Author

Of European background, and now living in the tropical part of Australia. Reasons for writing? This is an easy way to share information and thoughts with a potentially large audience, without hard sell tactics.

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Excerpts and Table of Contents

Prolog:

We are trying to structure our lives with traditions, morals, spiritual, political, economical, social and legal guidelines, but they seem to be freely exchangeable depending on what time or place you live in. So are there any real structures or order or guidelines that are universal, unchangeable, and that could be used to make any sense out of the world we live in and to make life easier, happier or more predictable? The answer is yes. Yes there are. And they are plainly visible all around us. No matter if you look at a grain of sand on the beach, at human society as such, anywhere in nature or the rest of the visible universe, some of those laws are staring right back at us, they are universal and even easy to read, if you care to look. You will be surprised when you see them, when you find out how few cards we are really holding in our hand, and who and what we reallyare.
This book is an attempt to point out some of these basic laws of nature and their relevance and implication in our lives. In other words, a look at the visible part of the matrix.

C o n t e n t s:

Prolog

Chapter I. The beginning of the visible universe
Formation of structure
Basic laws of nature

Chapter II. Size of visible universe
Source of organic matter
Plants, life-force
Building of life-support system

Chapter III. Animals and human species
Basic construction (genes etc.)
Soul
Social structure
Polarities
Laws of species

Chapter IV. The human mind
The soul

Chapter V. A brief history of the evolution of human society through ages

Chapter VI. The world we live in and the biggest challenges

Chapter VII. The way out: Change of thinking

Epilog

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In 1969 the Murchison Meteorite fell in Victoria,Australia, and it contained a lot of organic compounds including amino acids. Amino acids are asymmetrical chemical structures; they can be left or right-handed. But living organisms seem to prefer one form exclusively. The amino acids that form proteins are always left handed, DNA, RNA sugars are right handed. That Meteorite contained an excess of left handed amino acids, which are the preferred form for life.
Furthermore, circularly polarized light produces an excess of one handed amino acids and can be produces by infant starlight being scattered of interstellar dust, like in the Orion region. Our own solar system probably started out like the Orion Nebula, which today is a prolific birthplace of stars. By the way, that Meteorite was estimated to be 4.5 billion years old, but life on earth only exists since approximately 3.8 billion years.
Considering the amount of celestial bodies in the universe and the availability of basic building blocks of life (amino acids) combined with a widely available delivery system (meteorites) there is one likely conclusion: we are not alone, (but maybe one day we wish we were).

Nature's insurance policy for living creatures in a dynamic system is genetic diversity. By producing a great many different models so to speak, the survival of at least enough to keep the program going is guaranteed. The mechanisms to achieve this are simple. Firstly two different sources of genetic material to insure you don't get a carbon copy of just one specimen, but a gradual slight change over a long period and a good deal of genetic diversity.
Furthermore the possibility of influencing the genetic information through external factors like mentioned before and natures own selective process through environmental factors. The one's best adapted to changed circumstances are the ones to survive and so spread their genes.

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But now lets have a look at the conscious part of the mind and the process of decision making, because apart from primeval behavior everything anybody ever did started with a conscious thought, a however primitive that one was or still is.
The basic concept of the mind is like a neutral crystal clear light. Not a hint of pollution. But it has the potential to split in two, one being a positive state of mind and the other a negative state of mind. The switch that enables us to actually choose between the two is called selective perception or perspective. And that is the only real tool we have at our disposal in this life at this moment.

The state of mind you have, determines what kind of decisions you make and how you interact with other people. Any action you take is the result of your thoughts produced by your mind. So a negative state of mind will produce destructive and negative actions. But what constitutes a negative state of mind? Greed, jealousy, hatred and anger are the main culprits and poisons of the mind and are learned behavior.

By realizing that material things cannot be the ultimate source of your happiness because there is no final limit and in the process of accumulating them you most likely have to step on others, one way or another, you have recognized greed for what it is: the product of a deluded mind, based on ignorance.

We live in a time were science, esoteric, metaphysic, mythology and spirituality might just shake hands because they realize they are all part of the same picture and it's definitely not a mirage.

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Just imagine, you were the keeper of this beautiful national park. Full of wonderful and weird creatures, plants and animals alike. Pristine environment, clean watercourses, rainforests and beautiful landscapes. Sure, there is a food chain, animals eat each other and so on, but the whole place is balanced pretty well, there are no dramatic interruptions, just gradual evolution.
Then one day, a bunch of rock apes invade your park: They pollute the water, greatly disturb the vegetation, pollute the air and eradicate a lot of the species living in this place. They pile up rocks to live amongst them in dirty filthy places and make a lot of noise and commotion amongst themselves. There is a lot of fighting and destruction going on between them and the worst thing is, they think they're actually at the top of the evolutionary ladder and hence in control and charge of the whole park.
In matter of fact, they're the only species in the whole park that manage to endanger everybody's life support system, that is, they are cutting off the branch everybody is sitting on. What would you do as the keeper? You would shoot the lot, plow them into the ground and hope that as fertilizer they might not poison anything but be of at least some use to everybody else.
A slightly exaggerated picture, is it?

If the earth is twelve hours old, the dinosaurs died out 30 minutes ago, the human species has been around for less than twenty seconds and all of human history, so to speak, took place only within the last second. That fact alone explains this, but lets take one step at a time.

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So now let's have a look what the age of Pisces has stood for and why. It saw the final curtain fall on the ancient Egyptian Empire, the rise of Rome to superpower status and it's demise, the yellow tide of the Mongols overrunning large parts of the civilized world at that time, countless conflicts everywhere, great achievements of humanity, as well as large scale destruction. In the West it finally saw the rise of Europeans to great economical and cultural as well as political importance.
Its trademark is basically gung-ho developments, fairly uncoordinated on a global scale. Nature can be controlled and subjugated at will, providing you have enough technologies and knowledge. Might is right, the sword rules, mankind is in charge. The last century of this age, the 20 th , brought more technological changes and because of that more economical, social and political changes than we've probably ever had on this scale.
So the embracing of a negative state of mind, namely the greed for control, combined with the suppression of diversities and polarities, is a red line running through this age.
This explains the turmoil and destruction, but also the occasional great achievements of this time.Combined with the newly acquired technologies of the 20 th century however, it added up to a very explosive mixture. The I st and II nd World War were a result of that. The bottom line is that the ignorance of the basic laws of nature combined with the voluntary embracing of negative states of mind are the reasons for all this manmade misery and destruction. That is avoidable.

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So what kind of world could we expect to live in if we change our scale of values? We will still have some poverty for example. But we can make it more bearable by at least guaranteeing access to basic food and health services for most of those people.
We'll still have some armed confrontations, but not large scale, and no ethnic cleansing or genocide. There will still be social and environmental problems but they will be of manageable size. In other words, by adjusting our scale of values to the laws of nature, we can avoid the absolute extremes of man made destruction. We will not be able to get rid of residual negative factors, because they are the engines of our evolution, but the extremes of the destruction we have seen in the last few thousand years are avoidable. That alone is worth the effort.

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