Böcker av Jerome Jacob Rappoport

The author is in his eighth decade of life and claims to have found the key to the issues that have occupied him since childhood. As a regular-ordinary individual, he has concluded that his observations can apply to all others, regardless of circumstance or environment in which they might find themselves. His inquiries and experiences have suggested that most are hollow and void inside, but don't recognize it because they are filled with stories and concepts that came from outside their selves. These foreign-social notions, when compared with what he or she feels inside, lead to angst and frustration when confronting life. The Sapientific Method gives the individual tools to clear things up and basically start life anew by filling the self with his or her own storyline that enables a new reinterpreted view of the world. This is what being born again means.

OVERVIEWAll volumes of The Equilibrium Texts are primers. Their only objective is to prime the pump; not fill the bucket. That's the reader's challenge and responsibility. This volume on GD is the culmination of fifty years of reflection, introspection and experience that brought about this treatise concerning God. It is the author's concentration on the subject of religion that was brought about by three non-eventful interactions that led him to develop The Equilibrium Texts in general and this volume on GD in particular. The first was his mother's unclear and unfulfilling answer to the question, "e;What's the purpose of religion?"e; Her response was, "e;It's a way of life."e; The second was his English teacher's snide remark in response to his assigned written philosophy about God, "e;My, aren't you being superior to judge!"e; And the third was from a Catholic Navy chaplain in response to two questions, "e;Do you believe that God is a being?"e; He answered, No! "e;Then why did you deliver a sermon as if He was?"e; His response was, "e;Because, it's the only form of language that some people understand."e;It was due to these three semi-related encounters that stimulated the endeavor to discern what significance the concept of God held. This work leads from God, to G-d, to GD; the culmination of the search for GD's cosmological meaning.

The Equilibrium Text Series focuses on thoughts of the self, by the self and for the self. Applied Feel Theory puts into practice the elements that were discovered in Volume One on Unified Feel Theory. Recognizing that G-D is your consciousness and that You are your awareness, can only lead one to conclude that G-d and You are One. The advantage that this viewpoint offers cuts through the mystery that societys GOD of outer reality, actually indentures humanity to the whims of others and their leaders. Where can the self go for another opinion? All that society recommends is to seek it from qualified others. Why has no argument been made for seeking answers from within the self; the G-D of inner Reality? Society is not interested in your inner self, just what your outer self can do for society. In response, you should not look to society for what it can do for you, but to your self for what you can do for you. The U.S. Constitution considers you a sovereign being. These Equilibrium Texts clarify the difference between a sovereign being and you so that you can wisely discern any discrepancy and willingly opt to narrow the gap.