In one respect this book is the product of a lifetime of searching without a definite goal in mind - only to learn and explore.  What I eventually found was the Alice Bailey books (about 18 altogether plus 6 by Alice Bailey) which held a strange fascination for me, but it was only after some years that I had the urge to write.  As I wrote the more I learned, and the more I learned the more I wrote.  It has been a learning experience.

Only after eight years of reading and study followed by five years of writing did I finally understand what I had been writing about.  Once I came to this realization the real objective emerged.  I then had to discard about half of what I had written, and largely rewrite the rest.  Mostly the book will reflect the Bailey presentation and terminology so as to provide an easy bridge to the Bailey references.  In some cases I retained a particular word or phrase thereby reflecting the original color of the writing that some might label as direct or controversial.  Altogether it took sixteen years of writing before it reached the publisher.

As for myself: being a Control Systems Engineer by profession makes me a hybrid between a Mechanical and an Electrical Engineer.  My field is largely instrumentation.  Starting in 1956, I worked as a test engineer in Military Research and Development.  A few years later this was called Aerospace.  Then as an Application Engineer I worked at Beckman Instruments with process type analytical instrumentation.  Finally as a Bechtel Design Engineer I worked in the design, construction, and operation of Nuclear Power Plants.  The last five years before my retirement I worked in Design Engineering on the nuclear waste cleanup program at Savannah River.

With this kind of background I am used to figuring out how things work, and how they work together from a systems standpoint.  I tend to keep working on something until it makes sense to me.  The problem I have faced all along is that the material in this book challenges so many of our long accepted “scientific” beliefs.

My pursuit of this work will probably continue to occupy me until I get ready to leave.