Science in Spirituality and Spirituality in Science

By:   Richard Gene PH D
Imprint:   Advanced Publishing LLC
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   426g
ISBN:   9781631322266
ISBN 10:   1631322265
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   16 April 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

"All my life I have wondered what enables life to exist and to function, is there a reason for us to be here, and why am I me and not someone else? When I reached my teen years, I wanted to be able to say on my last day I did my part to make life better for mankind. When I got married and had two kids, I said to myself I really have three kids, the third is mankind, and I will care for my third kid as well as how I care for my two actual kids.I am unconventional but try to be as conventional as I can so as to be in sync with what it takes to achieve a successful life. However, my unconventional ways still show up when I am doing something creative. I love to design things and put things together such that things will work smoothly and well and be personalized.Thus, my wife and I bought the only unsold lot of six lots in a culdesac. It was the most difficult lot to build on, being located on a side of a hill, but it had a magnificent view. I planned the grading and designed the house plan myself. It was so tricky to fit a livable house on the lot that I had to put the garage in the middle of the house instead of at the end of the house, and we ended up with a steep curved driveway.In my late teens, my mom, one of my sisters, and I designed my parent's new house. Thus, there are two existing houses that I either designed myself or played a part in its design.After my wife passed away and I retired I turned philanthropic. I was the first to establish personal endowments at the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA). This led to both places establishing a new program for supports to establish personal endowments. My endowments are to fund educational programs for children and young people, programs that I firmly believe would help children and young people become better adults. I also help funded a similar educational program at the Ruth Bancroft Gardens (RBG). The CAS awarded me their ""Spirit of Philanthropy Award"" for the year 2022. I am also in the process of establishing an endowment at UCSF to support their internship programs for high school students.All these mentioned educational programs for children and young people increase their knowledge regarding how life works. My work in writing my books does the same. Thus, a strong connection exists between my work and the work of these institutions. Therefore, by writing my books and supporting these institutions I am carrying out my work on two different paths.The three books I wrote formulate and present a new spiritual model that models how life works more completely and more accurately than the spiritual models that exist up to now. The purpose is to help mankind gain more completely and more accurately the knowledge of how life works. Therefore, mankind would be more able to form the wisdom to stop making wars, mistreating one another, and doing criminal acts of all kinds. The new spiritual model shows how it is that our creator did not mean for mankind to behave so poorly. Instead, the model revealed mankind has a primary purpose for being here on Earth, and the way to fulfill this primary purpose is to behave in a manner that is constructive and meaningful."