School children learn how the Copernican model of the solar system revolutionized the science of astronomy 500 years ago. It can be difficult now to imagine that before the time of Copernicus people believed not that the earth revolves around the sun but that the sun revolves around the earth. Yet people did believe in that way. The idea of Copernicus was so revolutionary that most contemporary scientists did not accept it at once, or even during their lifetime. It took generations for the model of Copernicus to gain widespread acceptance.
The ideas that are presented in this book will also enable and require a revolutionary change in thinking. Resistance will probably be as stiff as it was in the days of Copernicus.
Of course, any resistance to and criticism of the ideas that are presented in this book should in no way be interpreted as evidence that the ideas are true. However, any resistance or criticism or lack of interest by others does NOT mean that YOU should dismiss the ideas without forming an opinion of your own.
These ideas enable a revolutionary way of understanding our world. In order to achieve this, they require a revolutionary way of looking at our world. It will not be possible to achieve this revolution by apathetically noting how these ideas deviate from what you learned at school. You must be willing to explore the ideas to see how they hold together in a coherent and consistent manner, and you must be willing to consider the possibility that these ideas explain what you already believe and know in a manner that enables a greater degree of understanding.
In many ways, the ideas that are presented in this book are very abstract and difficult to understand well. And yet, the ideas are also very concrete and easy to understand well. If you position your body and your fingers as shown in the 175 photographs that are provided in the book, you will be able to recognize for yourself, to prove to yourself, and to understand yourself the beauty and the power of this theory. Each of us, when we are young, develops our conscious mind, we become increasingly conscious, or aware, of our environment, by recognizing relationships in our body and the world around us. These relationships are very natural, and we can learn how to recognize at the conscious level what we naturally recognize at the subconscious level.
Just as with people who lived in any past age of revolutionary ideas, if you intend to attempt to learn and come to understand this new way to relate to the world, you must have the courage to challenge your beliefs, and to break free of and move beyond the linguistic and cultural boundaries that are currently established by society, and you must be willing to explore this new science, this new religion, this new model of the world, on its own merits.
It is not important, and it is not desirable, that you begin reading this book with the idea that it must surely all be true. It is best to be very skeptical of a book that makes the types of claims that this book makes. You must demand to be convinced. But it is equally important that you be willing to give this theory a chance, and do not automatically or casually dismiss it as soon as it begins to challenge your current view of the world.
As an analogy to aid in coming to understand this theory, consider the study of a foreign language. It is not possible to learn another language well by forcing a translation of each of its words into a corresponding word of English. Instead, the meanings of words must be understood within the context of the vocabulary and the grammar of that language. In the same way, to recognize the value of this theory you must evaluate it from within a context of the entire theory, and not evaluate spot by spot translations into your current view of the world.
For example, speakers of Chinese think in Chinese grammar. They do not think in Chinese grammar by first translating it into and passing it through English grammar. If you want to learn Chinese well, you must learn to think in Chinese grammar, although this is not easy. If you translate Chinese into English in order to understand it, you will be very aware of the differences in grammar, the differences between these two very different models of the world, and these differences will appear as deficiencies, such as no verb tenses, no equivalent to 'the', etc. If you learn to think using the Chinese grammar, you will not recognize these to be deficiencies at all, because within the entire context of Chinese grammar all points of grammar are very natural and complete. In the same way, if you attempt to translate each idea in this book into your current model of the world, randomly and out of context, you will only be aware of the differences, and these will appear as deficiencies and impossibilities.
The most productive way to read this book is to develop in yourself a cautious yet courageous attitude. Only if you attempt to understand this model within the context of the model itself will you truly be able to discover its beauty, its power, and its consistency.