May 15, 2007

To: Daniel. J. Shepard

The World Embracing Hope Foundation

Dear Sir 

May I say, after reading some of your works and seeing the wonderful presentation I was able to download from your website, I was very impressed indeed with the logical method you have used in portraying a version of the truth. Your style is very refreshing and very similar to my own on many levels. It seems as if we have had quite a few things in common in our lives and our “paths” / “journeys” have now crossed. I have a feeling that we have crossed before but that is something else for another time. In my life there are no coincidences only signs. Your “universal philosophy” is quite brilliant and covers many of the unanswered questions few seem able to answer. There are many endearing qualities to it and even though you state in your first trilogy that you are not a scholar of merit, I beg to differ; you are without a doubt a very modest brilliant young man who has the very best of intentions at heart for the entire world’s population, a trait that very few possess.

You are so full of contradictions in your work it beggars belief. Rather harsh I admit but because you write about truths then I feel obliged to use my version of your works within the scope of my own truths. Please let me explain. In “You & I” page 252 you write “I want you to understand that I in no way would ever prejudge a suicide attempt; I would only feel a heavy heart from it. People have no right to make judgments about people who commit suicide,” but then you go on to write on page 254, “would only accentuate how ludicrous your action of suicide would be anyway.” If this is no prejudging then I don’t know what is. I also know that anyone can take a very small portion of a text and then take it out of context as there are so many other things within the text that give reason for the statement, but when you are dealing with universal feelings of other souls then you have to be entirely neutral. If you state that you are not going to prejudge an action of a fellow soul you cannot then go into graphic detail of how a soul will suffer because of it. You never know if it was supposed to be the path of the soul to take. You write so much about the ripple effect, a notion that has been in existence for a very long time, do you recall the film about a man about to commit suicide at Christmas but is saved by an angel working for his wings. James Stewart played the title role. This is a very contemporary version of tales that have been thrown around in human history for eons. There are if I am correct in remembering quite a few versions in Arabian mythology along with Hindu philosophy that use this parable too. If a person has made up their mind to commit suicide then who are you or anyone else for that matter to say they can’t by using scare tactics of damnation for eternity reliving the dreadful deed in vivid colour and all of it’s effects upon the myriad of people that are always effected by such an act. You are no better than the Bible.

 

You also state that you are not a Christian believer, or follower yet your work screams of Christian doctrine. Don’t worry you cannot avoid it, anyone trying to do what you do will be accused of it as no-one yet has succeeded in writing better books that those of The Bible, Qu’ran etc… as they all deal with the same source matter. You also grew up in a Christian/Judean faith country which you ventured from in your latter years as you began to become wise to the idiocy of their doctrines. I state idiocy as that is what any singular belief structure is. You know as well I, even though at the time of writing the books in question were undoubtedly the only method able to contain and sustain societies struggling for independence and conquest of other nations, they all lack one vital understanding, namely; respect for all.

 

Anyway young man, although I agree whole heartedly with your version of the truth to a point, I do see problems with the re-establishment of G_d. You cover it up with a new title and dress it up with new dogma in the guise of a causative force. Ever heard of Hans Christian Andersen? He wrote the single most brilliant short story in the entire history of humankind, “The Emperors New Clothes”. I do so understand your workings and writings and the message that they contain, but you must realise you are repeating the same faults as so many who came before you and undoubtedly will come after. You’ve taken the ideology of a deity and given it a “New Century Face-Lift” to make it plausible to a new generation of believers. I applaud you Sir, I really do. If this world had a few million like you it would be a very different place indeed, a far better place. As far as your understanding of the “ripple effect” goes please understand simple logic; the ripples of others cancel each other out. I am sure that you are an educated enough young man to believe in the laws of Newton; cause and causality, actions and reactions etc… but what if I were to tell you that it’s wrong? Would you be able to take a leap of logic and understand that everything is a reaction to a single action that happened a few billion years ago? If you are treading the path of logicians then think wider than the universe, wider than a creator. Your work like all others I have met along my “journey” stop at the creator’s door. You state in your work that there is nothing beyond the creator and if people go there then they want to know the same old, “who created the creator’s creator’s creator etc.. scenario.” Well, who says there has to be a creator? Just because humans haven’t decided to go beyond this stumbling block doesn’t mean that it cannot be surpassed. Scientists are stuck at the same place too. They are currently searching for the building blocks of all matter at the proton level and beyond calling them the primary elements. The have come to the conclusion there are twelve of them, all with stupid names that do nothing but injustice to them, but suit a quantum mathematicians wet dream. Their present hindrance is the medium in which all these elements reside and how they are created in the first place, an element they have called Higgs. Due to physics stopping at this level and not possessing the logic of the universe they are blind to the fractal element that belies everything, but that is for you to ask about and not to get into quite yet.

 

What I would like to address is I understand fully the need for a better world, but putting humankind back on its knees to another deity is not the way to do it. You are preventing the advent of humankind and re-establishing worshipping of a principle and ideology in the form of an icon called God. There are Eastern faiths that preach exactly the same as you have put forward, about how we are a part of God’s immortal soul and we live in a void created by Him but they refer to it as “The Song” and not the universe. Others state that the universe is but an infinitesimal part of God’s soul and heart and we all play an important part in imparting our experiences to Him on our deaths. Judean belief a branch off from Persian beliefs like Zoroastrian used the same logic in their doctrine where all will face the “Creator Jehovah” and give an account of their lives to be judged by Him and then with Divine right He will either allow you to fly as one of His “White Angels” or as one of “his angels” for the rest of eternity. This is I am afraid, utter tosh. Do you really think for a second that every soul allowed to take a journey here on Earth for however long is the soul property of a creator? What kind of man are you? Are you trying to make other souls believe that they are only rented? That they have no worth other than to the creator as a whole? I understand this logic if you cannot get your head around the creator, but for crying out loud young man, you’re telling everyone that they have no free will whatsoever and are all born equals because we are all born slaves of a deity. Oh, and by the way, before you rush to the conclusion that I am an Atheist, you could not be further from the truth if you tried. I am a believer in a great many things, including all Gods. The deity you describe is but a child, you speak of omnipotence and omniscience and omnipresence yet He is only credited with the creation of everything and he cannot interfere with the process. What sort of omnipotent being can only start a process and sits back and hopes that it all goes as He has planned? Also what sort of being who is for all intents and purposes immortal with no understanding of time as we know it and live it, would put beings on a beautiful planet like this for a nanosecond of a billionth of a nanosecond in immortal terms and then judge them for the rest of eternity on their good and bad behaviours? You really have no understanding of what a God is, you have fallen into the same traps laid down by people for thousands of years who really couldn’t contemplate eternity if it slapped them in the face. Eternity young man is but the start of the next “journey” and hopefully you will realise this before you condemn the world to believe in another knee scraping folly. Humans will have to learn to hold their heads up, and stand up for themselves if they are to become anything more than they are today.

 

For God’s sake and your own, open your mind. I look forward to reading your next volumes I have downloaded; I see that you end in the fourth millennium, a step up from the scenario left by your southern counterparts. I know that you believe with all your heart and soul what you have written is for the good of all, and to be quite honest so you should, but the path you are treading as an author of a universal understanding, you have to go further than you have ever believed you could. Can you go beyond your creator? You have to if you want to make the world yours, because that is what will happen if everyone takes up your version of the truth, you have put your name to it and therefore you will be recorded as such. I don’t think you have done it for personal gain, but you really need to think about it, you are treading on the toes of icons like Jesus and Mohammed, not to be taken lightly my young friend, remember you are the one who writes about ripples, some ripples are larger than others. If you cannot transcend the creator then all those closest to Him will drown out yours as if you have never existed.                           Just a thought.

 

Another thing, the Klein Bottle is flawed, it intersects with itself on the return journey. I know it’s a mathematic wonder and suits a variety of theories but as it intersects with itself it removes a vital part of itself, a part of a journey that has already been taken, you cannot.

 

I look forward to crossing your “journey” again.

 

Peace, Love and Respect

 

Remember : Religion guides you, it doesn’t rule you.

J °C

Logician

 

 

 

 

 

P.S. You think there is a God……………………. I KNOW THERE IS ! That’s the difference.