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INTERNATIONAL ARTIST

The Universal Interactive Manual

[1] Preface

"The way you phrase the truth is as important as the truth itself"

 

The wording is like a powerful painting that I would like to put on the wall.

I want to share the statement with other people, not just for it's truth, but also because the way it is worded somehow has a special meaning for me.

Others thinking and phrasing have contributed much to the work I present now.

The feedback I have received has helped sharpen the presentation of these projects.

It has also confirmed the importance of these skills and their relevance to the myriad of work situations as well as to family, and other personal relationships.

Having traced just a portion of my indebtedness, it may seem strange that I still think of this as "my book".

The simile used by one of the earliest English manuals of botany conveys my feelings very accurately :[William Turner, London 1551 'A New Herbal Wherein Are Contained the Names of Herbes']

"Some [of my readers] might say, seeing that I graunte that I have gathered this book of so many writers, that I offer unto you a heap of others mennis laboures, and nothing of my own. To whom I answere :

"That if the honeye that the bees gather out of so many flowers of herbes, shrubbes and trees, that are growing in the other mennis meadows, fieldes, and closes, may justelye be called the bee's honeye..."

So may I call that I have learned and gathered of so many authores..."my book"


I have had, since long, a feeling that if findings of various branches of science were considered in an impartial manner and without any materialistic presumptions and evolutionary bias, and were correlated and studied in a holistic manner, they would support the revealed spiritual truths about the Cosmos, Time Cycle, the World History and the self-aware Mind, or Soul.

The author however felt that he himself had no special training to embark on the adventure. Yet his desire to share, with others, his own understanding of the self, the Cosmos and the Nature of the World History impelled him to do something in this direction.

Further, his discussions in many countries, with men and women well versed in various disciplines had given him some confidence to take the risk, however great, for he thought this might at least inspire some others, who are better equipped, to make an even more successful venture, in future, in the interest of the spread of knowledge.

So finally, with the motive of service, he launched the scheme.

The author, it should be kept in mind, has no claim of being an authority in any field of Science.

He can claim at best to have had some extraordinary experiences, and a
collection of gathered wisdom.

He therefore, suggests, in all humility, that the 'manual' be read as only a small effort to start the churning of knowledge, to which he invites others to join.

The materials for this manual have been collected from various sources over a number of years.

The author had taken help from hundreds of books and periodicals, but since, originally, he had no idea that he would, some day, publish the material in the form of a 'book', but had rather been studying to improve and refurbish his own understanding, he did not, at times, note the names of authors and their works which he read.

Moreover, some of the notes he took were a verbatim copy of the lines of the author of the source book, while others were in his own words.

And, the author, at this distance of time, could not recollect, in the case of certain bits and pieces in his notebook, as to whether these were in his own words or in the words of the author of the source book, and also who was the author of the source book from which it was taken.

The author, therefore, had a great inhibition and hesitation in using such material for he was 'afraid' that the names of those authors and their works would not find mention if he used those bits of information.

However, the thought that the material was valuable and had now become known to people conversant with that discipline, and that it would be of benefit to the readers, enabled the author to overcome his hesitation.

But in all sincerity, he offers his apologies to those to whom he is indebted, but whose names he has, under the circumstances, been unable to mention.


In spite of the strong stimulus of others on my methods of communications and my thoughts about it, I, of course, am responsible for the material in these pages.

My wish to you, the reader, is that the material presented in this "manual" will benefit you as much as it has benefitted me. 


[2] Introduction


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