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The book says that it is a Logical explanation of what we are, why we exist and what Enlightenment and wisdom entail.

I think it does all that and more. I'm on the staff at Philosophy Now and working for the magazine I am often asked to read many of the books that are sent to us from authors. There are many of them as you can imagine and many are truly inspirational however, the above book drove home to me the answers to the questions I have had on religion (this is from a religious (not philosophical) point of view only). You see, even as a newly converted Roman Catholic I am still unable to take the sacrament of communion for reasons I daren't go into here, so I have every reason to be sceptical about religions. In my opinion though Dave Essex's book answered all my concerns. I would definitely recommend it as a good read with an open-mind. I particularly like part of the penultimate paragraph which reads "Practice dying to your dream identity, during the day and during your nightly dreams, remembering "I can do what I came here to do, which is to dance blissfully with everything I meet - in my own dream." You have to read it to understand it! Go ahead and buy it now.

Well done Dave Essex for a beautifully written book.

Welcome to the forum, Ellen!

Thanks for the recommendation, Ellen, and welcome!

Mick

Ellen,

Searching for "dave Essex" or "the universe & consciousness explained", I was unable to find the book on Amazon (US). Please advise or help otherwise.

Tom

Having emailed the author today I understand that his book is not being sold on Amazon - however please send me your email address and I shall forward it to him so he can provide you with details of how you can purchase the book.

This website tells you how to order a book of the same title, but it does not currently give the author's name so I do not know whether it is the same book. The website is described as temporary, so it may well change.

http://www.bon-davi.com/

D N Essex is the author.

Hope this helps.

Ellen

Hi. I wrote this book. You can purchase it, or read the first 24 pages, at www.B-Dproductions.com. It starts with what I conclude is the MOST PRIMARY PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION to ask, namely "What does LOGIC say can arise, when existence of any kind first becomes possible?" It deduces what dimension it must be that we live in, what consciousness is, and how our dimension must be structured in order to perform the function it exists to perform. Oddly enough, this information turns out to be not too difficult to ascertain. It doesn't take an Einstein to figure it out - it takes a pig-headed fool, ornery enough to be delighted in pursuing an "impossible task."
I'm now going to start a little discourse here, laying out the line of reasoning which leads to discovering what logic says we are. I'll add a bit to it every few days, and leave you at different places along the way, to see if you can figure it out for yourself. It is quite a thrill to discover it for yourself. I won't give the answer away - you'll have to buy the book for that, or to see if you got the same answer I got - but I think you'll find it fun.
I'll start by saying that I'll bet you were on the right track with the first philosophical question you ever asked. I'll bet the question you first asked, probably as you looked at the stars in the nighttime sky, was "How did this universe start existing? What potential did it have to arise from nothing? Then you thought, "Logically, I don't see how anything tangible, let alone a whole tangible universe, can arise starting out from absolutely nothing. "Nothing" has no potentials to create anything tangible. And yet here I am in a tangible universe - so, the logic of its existence must be more complicated than I can figure out, or perhaps more complicated than anyone can figure out." I think that this is where we are all left - facing what seems to be either a paradox, or, more probably, something way over our heads when it comes to figuring it out.
But humans turn out to be pretty good at logical thinking. You were right in your conclusion. You, like all the rest of us, just made the wrong assumption going into the question, so naturally it didn't come out right. First, to show that we are all pretty good at logic, I'll sight studies where they took 6 month old babies and performed magic tricks in front of them. They all registered looks and other bodily gestures indicating astonishment. They knew at 6 months of age what was logically "supposed" to happen, and were astonished when it didn't happen the way they expected.
Let me back up and say that the biggest reason I believe that no one yet has broken through the paradoxical answer to the question we all ask first is because this has only been the question to ask for the last several hundred years - during the "scientific" age. Before that the first question asked first, and also seemingly unanswerable, was "How did God come to exist, since I'm told that God made the world, and is all-powerful?"
Now, back to our topic at hand. The erroneous assumption we make going into the first question is that we live in a TANGIBLE universe, as opposed to a "spiritual," a "mystical," that is, an INTANGIBLE, dreamed universe, as Hindus, Buddhists, Hassidic Jews, Mystical Christians, Taoists, and native people around the world tell us - but they're not "scientific," and are politely smiled at these days by the rest of us in the scientific age, who "know better." But - again - we're pretty good at logic, just not so good at recognizing hidden assumptions we carry with us - in this case, that our universe is tangible in nature rather than intangibly mystical. We were all correct in concluding that logically it is impossible to get something tangible from "nothing." (To make sure of this I devote a chapter in my book to proving that this is the case.) So, the error we make is thinking that, since we live in a tangible world, we must be wrong in concluding that logically you can't get something tangible from absolutely nothing.
So, the first step in reaching the knowledge of where it is that we live, is going back to the first question that we ask, and reacting differently to the (correct) answer we come up with. Specifically, the correct reaction is - "Well then I guess that the universe is really an intangible dimension. So, what does this fact mean. Where can I go from here? What dimensions have the potentials to exist in various intangible manners?"
I'll leave you here for a few days - it's only several more steps to the answer - have fun!

Your link doesn't work, the only reference to the book that google finds is that on this website.

DaveEssex wrote:Hi. I wrote this book. You can purchase it, or read the first 24 pages, at www.B-Dproductions.com.

The link doesn't work because the software interprets the full stop at the end of your sentence as being part of your web address. However, if you leave off the full stop:

www.B-Dproductions.com

then it works fine. A nice looking website, in fact!

Whoops - In my posting last night, when I was mentioning all the religions and spiritual traditions around the world whose core doctrines believe that our dimension is spiritual in nature, I forgot to mention the Islamic Sufis. My apologies!

Whoops - In my posting last night, when I was mentioning all the religions and spiritual traditions around the world whose core doctrines believe that our dimension is spiritual in nature, I forgot to mention the Islamic Sufis. My apologies!

What about us scientologists?!

Sounds a bit like bon jovi.

Love the pictures by the by, wonderful.

Music is nice too.

Reply to Rortabend - about Scientology. Forty ago I read "Dianetics" and found the information plausable, and still believe it to be probably true. I also agree with Scientology that it is absolutely necessary, if we are ever to achieve a profound serenity, to root out old discomforting experience and defuse the negative judgments made about them. At the time, to go any deeper into Scientology required thousands of dollars, which I didn't have - and I have assumed that this was still the case. It did intrigue me when Scientology added the "Church Of" to its name, but I also read that this may have been done only for tax purposes. So I guess I would say that Scientology sounds to me like a sound philosophy concerning psychology, but I was unaware, until your message, that it concerned itself with metaphysics. I would appreciate it if you would tell me the name of a book which explains Scientology's metaphysics, and, if difficult to find, where I could go to purchase the book. Thanks

Well,if you're playing our little game here, of reaching the goal of being one of the first persons in recorded history to reach a logical understanding of what dimension we live in,and understand what Mystics of all religions have been describing the nature of in various ways, and understand why quantum physics is all about consciousness choosing, from an actually existing spectrum of possible situations, that one situation to be recorded by consciousness, and if you want to be able to deduce for yourself what Socrates couldn't, what Descartes couldn't, what (fill in the blank with the name of ANY famous philosopher) couldn't, then - - - - - - if you think you have the answer, at any point in the game of serial clues, e-mail me at
bondavi@sti.net what dimension you have concluded we live in, and I'll reply yea or nay.
(I wish I could take great pride in discovering this first, but the answer turns out to be so damn kindergarden simple, it would be like taking pride in finding a diamond on the road! Besides, I've discovered that the more often you can be childlike - beyond attitudes of any kind - the more beautiful is the world you live in. )