metaphysics – "I of my own knowledge…"

You will notice, in the middle of the home page of this site, a horizontal row of buttons. Until now they have been merely decorative, but as you see my webmeister has begun to activate them. Clicking on “My Story”, “Spirit and Society” or “Fiction” will now bring you to the respective pages. Ultimately all the buttons will work, which should make it a little easier to navigate the site.

We are still having a problem getting the credit-card acceptance mechanism to work right, but that seems to be the last major speed bump. At least, it’s the last one we anticipate. Now it’s up to me to do the considerable amount of work needed to provide the information that is the site’s reason for being.

Many years ago Bob Friedman, John Nelson and I put our heads together to try to solve a problem for the publishing industry, and for the metaphysical (New Age) community. We were unable to have the impact he hoped to have, but perhaps the cause is not quite lost.

The problem is this. Suppose you’re someone new to metaphysics and you come across, say, “The Celestine Prophecy,” or “Jonathan Livingston Seagull.” You go to your local bookstore (assuming you still HAVE a local bookstore and probably you ask what else they have by the same authors. But after a while, when you’re read everything James Redfield or Richard Bach had published, you might want more of the same, by other authors. You know (or anyway you assume) it exists. But how do you find it?

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