Overview:
The very dense hexadecimal
encoded message on
the back of each page was intended for those that shall follow.
The main book is broken into
chapters divided into a stanza like format that at times take great liberties with the English language.
How does the chapter on
the
Abstraction Layer differ from Plato's Euthyphro?
The Greek Philosopher
Plato wrote a wonderful book around 380 BC that logically proved
that
God could not define morality.
2300 years later The
Ithon answers the next logical question "If God doesn't
define morality then where does morality exist?". In the
chapter titled The Abstraction
Layer, you will find the answer to this question. I think this
is the essence of what the light was trying to communicate to
me.
Don't you think it is irreverent
to suggest that there is a higher authority than God in the
Universe?
The Abstraction Layer
is a critical first step in our understanding of morality. It
allows us to move from a discussion of life based upon religious
decree toward a world based upon rational thought.
Undoubtedly, God
does not see our role in the universe as one that is meant to rely upon a higher authority for guidance; if God had constructed our universe based on decree then that guidance would be clear, concise, relevant, and without contradiction. Clearly, God sees us as evolving toward a fundamental
understanding of morality that is based on something other than decree.
The Ithon shows that the critical first step in our evolution toward becoming higher beings is an understanding of The Abstraction Layer.
While a difficult concept, The Abstraction
Layer, brings something critical to the discussions
of right and wrong by allowing us to define those concepts without resorting
to religious decree.
A
path to truth not based upon decree. No truer words
exist.
Shouldn't the following
sentence be written using he or she?
Undoubtedly you will
notice as you read the book what appears to be the grammatically
incorrect use of personal pronouns. The Ithon was written in a
gender-neutral fashion. The only gender-based usage in the text
is the word "man" that appears on page 7 of the book.
Why fingerprints? Why not
just publish the work anonymously?
Fingerprints
preserve the anonymity of the work but also prevent people from
trying to alter the core teachings of The Ithon. If the work
were published anonymously anyone could write a book, paper, or
article
claiming
to be the author and
attempt to expound on or change the meaning of the core work.
Do aspects of The Ithon embrace an open source approach to religion?
Yes to some degree this concept is true.
The Ithon recognizes that morality exists independent of any being including God. This revelation is one of the most critical teachings that to be passed on.
The Ithon was intended to be extendable in scope and content by delineating our understanding of The Abstraction Layer. This unique and essential element allows us to expand our concepts of morality and governance as we move forward in the universe.
The Ithon bases its foundations of leadership upon a method of selection that relies on both democratic and competitive systems leading a more open approach to governance.
Lastly, the core of The Ithon as it now stands shall not be revised or expanded in anyway by the author. The future is now determined by that which follows.
What caused you to write this book?
I was undergoing surgery to correct a problem with SVTs (Supraventricular Tachycardias a form of severely abnormal heart rhythms). During the procedure they routinely shock, stop, and stress your heart to test the progress of the operation. As a result normal anesthesia is not used as it interferes with heart rhythms. During the 6 hours that I was in the procedure I was mildly sedated and given large amounts of antihistamines. Unfortunately, the drugs never completely knock you out and you drift in out of consciousness many, many times during the operation. At one point I remember coming to and begging for water from the nurse, trying to suppress panic. I don’t think my throat could ever have been that dry. I literally felt that I couldn't breath through it. I contemplated and managed to suppress the urge to try and fight against the restraints that had been used to tie me to the table with.
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Click the image to the left to see a much larger version of one of the many x-rays they took of me that fateful day on the operating table.
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The goal of the operation is to make a series of small burns on the heart tissue, in my case 32 of them in a region about the size of a quarter. These were designed is to knock out any abnormal electrical pathways that had developed in my heart tissue. It takes hours and hours to position and test the devices that make the burns. When a burn is made or a series of burns, they test your heart by stressing it with drugs that cause it to race, stop, or pause. At some point during the procedures they place you under eight inches of blankets that make you overheat and cause your heart additional stress for test purposes. I remember the doctor telling me afterwards that they had gotten my heart beat up above 250 beats per minute! I still can't believe that number when I look back on it all. The best I could do during a full cardiac stress test on a treadmill at high incline was 190 beats a minute a week before the operation. They would also shock my heart endlessly via catheters they had put in the arteries in my neck and groin area to trigger the abnormal SVTs.
I think it was towards the end of the operation that everything happened, I am not totally certain of the timing of events, as it was very hard to remember things in a linear fashion. I remember at one point coming to and hearing some sort of conversation in the background. I’m not certain what they were saying, I was under the blankets again burning up, parched beyond words, with a my heart just jumping out of my chest because they had given it drugs to speed up. I heard someone in the control room tell someone to slow it back down again to normal. Then it just stopped. My heart totally stopped beating! I don’t remember much after that. I heard someone shout and then total darkness. I gradually became aware in it.
I don’t know how long the darkness lasted because time didn’t seem to matter, but then I felt warmth and a light. The light seemed to be alive, and it focused all my senses. The light just grew brighter and more intense filling every bit of my senses and being. Then all of sudden I was aware of a huge shocks that were going threw my body, across my back and into my torso. These must have come from the two huge electrical pads they had put on my back in the surgical preparations phase. I asked my nurse about them when they first put them on and she said it would be used to try and restart my heart if it failed.
That is the last thing I remember cohesively during the surgery. I think they pumped me up with some more drugs to knock me out.
I remember waking up in the hospital with a sense of purpose, knowing what I was going to do. The light has infused me with a vision of what I wanted to do with my life, what I need to communicate; I spent the next year writing a book called The Ithon. The longer I stay in this world the farther and the farther those events fade into the past the more surreal those events seem to me. But my purpose will always be with me for the rest of my life.
How does this book differ from Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism?
Ayn Rand's philosophy called Objectivism is a philosophy in which self-centered concern is the foundation of all moral decisions. Objectivism would undoubtedly be the correct approach to the valuation of our fellow beings if the universe existed without God. Fortunately, a singular starting point in time for the creation of the universe discredits this system of valuations.
The Ithon supports the opposite view, that God created the universe in an absolute act of unselfishness, and that all beings in God's universe may benefit to an unlimited extent from the generosity that God afforded us. The Ithon holds that it is inconsistent with the values that led to the creation of this universe to not base our actions on more altruistic ideals.
Which would you choose? A universe without God where selfishness as preached by Ayn Rand is the order of the day, or a universe given freely by God that speaks to an inherent concern for the welfare of others?
What happens to any money
that is made from the sale of this book?
Any profits from the sale
of this book will be used
for projects to benefit all people.
Why do you still choose to remain
anonymous?
That which has been
written must stand upon its own merits. Judgments based upon
lesser thoughts are wrong. I am merely the conduit for the expressions
of that which even I cannot truly understand.
Welcome
to The Ithon a vision whose time has come.
