History

In 1984 while sitting in my Electrical Engineering class, the first of many "insights" occurred. A full year and two months after graduation, (with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from an accredited college), in November 1986, I realized that I should write a "technical report" on the Human Soul from an Engineer’s point of view. In the last half of the year 2000, I realized that I had not just been writing a series of books, I had in fact been laying the foundation for a new Science. It has been an adventure and a labor of love. I am not the same person that I was when I started this project.

The work on this project was done during my "spare time". I was trying to build a career, and worked on this project at home and while eating in local restaurants at lunch and diner. Various servers noticed that I was always working at the supper table and would ask what I was working on. When I told them, every single one of them, regardless of race or gender, asked me if I was writing it for the layperson. When I told them no, there was a disappointment in their eyes, but I was too engrossed in what I was working on to notice. It was about midway through this project, that I realized I had to write my book for the layperson because scientists are far more concerned with funding and reputation than science. So I changed the focus of my book and the course of my life. My book was transformed from a technical report with equations and definitions to a three volume set with my fist book of Volume – 1 weighing in at over 364 pages.

The casual observer would be amazed how this project has come together. I can not express to anyone the joy that I have experienced. I take no credit for "insights" that I have been fortunate to experience. I know the source of my creativity and insight. I will take all the blame for any errors in the recording of these "insights". If you can help me fix any errors that I have made, please do so.

In 1987 my mother co-signed a loan for me, so that I could purchase my first computer, a KayPro 286 PC. (I still use it with my FORTAN compiler – you guessed it - I have a green screen.) I made the outline of my book on this computer and started to type up my notes in WordStar, my first word processor. The problem that I had was that my time at home was not my own. I needed a way to type up my book when I was away from home.

Prior to this I used just about any scrap of paper I could get my hands on, and any pen or pencil that was available. I stopped using my KE Leroy drafting pens when I started working at the Westinghouse FAST Warehouse. At some point after I left Westinghouse and started work as a full time employee, in 1989, I started using blue-ruled engineering pads and then composition notebooks. My pen of choice by 1992 was the Faber-Eberhard* Uni-ball micro. It delivered a smooth unbroken line, almost like my drafting pens and it was comfortable in my hand. After making the decision to write my book for the layperson, and changing jobs, I stopped typing up my book at home. I began the job of expanding my book and writing for someone without a technical background. I did this with pen and paper.

* I had found some Faber-Castell drafting pens at a small bookstore in Gainesville, when I was there in the Architectural School. The Faber-Castell drafting pens had a nice clip on the cap that allowed shirt pocket carry, something the KE Leroy pens did not, until they came out with their short barrel. So recognizing the Faber name I tried the pens. I am glad I did.

When I started this project, none of the many books that are available today were available then, or I was simply not aware of them. My cousin had given me a book on Judo and a book on Karate when I was nine years old. By the time the Television show Kung Fu came along, I already knew how to breathe from the "Hara" and I could "plant" myself. Unfortunately I had also learned "hand to hand" combat because of an incident that had occurred in High School, and so my focus was on the "external" or physical aspects of the Martial Arts. I continued to practice well into college. My focus after "Kung Fu" television series (what little I saw of it) shifted to China. I practiced Praying Mantis and White Crane Kung Fu. I was becoming aware of the "Internal Energy" of the body – the "Chi" and how it could be used in combat.

As my work on this project progressed, the excellent bookstore - Bookstop came to town. (First in Altamonte Springs and then in Orlando by the Executive Airport.) There I began to find all sorts of very interesting books, on Chinese Traditional Medicine, Qi Gong, Chi Kung, Yoga, Tai Chi – Chi Kung, Meditation and Tantra. Some of them were excellent and some were not so good. One thing that became very clear in my studies of the Eastern Chi Kung and Yoga techniques, there was not a Soul Yoga or Soul Kung! Mantak Chia did have Shen Kung techniques in one of his books, but I did not recognize them! It was not until I read Stuart Olson’s translation of The Jade Emperor’s Mind Seal Classic, that most of the other "Eastern" books made sense.

Most important of the excellent books was the Upanishads. For it was reading the Upanishads, after seeing an update to the PBS Series COSMOS the night before on the Super Station, that I came full circle in my personal journey. I was no longer agnostic. I also learned that the Supreme Being’s name means "the end of love longing". Many pieces of the grand puzzle fell into place that day.

By 1996, I was working for a small company that worked on the government side of the government –contractor fence. I purchased my first laptop computer around this time, a Toshiba Satellite, 486, to help me type up my notes while I was away from home. (I extended my car loan at my credit union to get the money for the Toshiba.) It proved to be too heavy and awkward on restaurant tables. I did use it after I got out of the hospital in 1997 to type up several of my composition notebooks, while I was at home in bed, recovering from the illness that had almost killed me. (I had been working far too hard trying to perform the jobs of three people, and it caught up with me. I was in the hospital on my back for 5 weeks, before I was allowed to go home. My surgeon told me that if I did not stay off my feet for another two months I would be right back in the hospital.)

My company had switched to Gateway PCs before I got sick and so I purchased a Gateway Pentium PC after I returned to work. I copied over my typed up notes from my Toshiba and was making progress typing up my more recent notes on my Gateway PC. I was still manually writing my notes and sketching my diagrams in composition notebooks. (It was about this time that I noticed that "Sanford" had replaced "Faber" on my favorite pen.) I decided to scan-in my notebook sketches at Kinkos. It was just too difficult and irritating to draw in Paint or AutoSketch with a mouse. Also I would come home after work and find it more and more difficult to sit down at the computer and type up my notebooks. The illness had taken a lot out of me. What I needed was a light easy to carry and use notebook computer with a full size keyboard that would allow me to type up my notebook pages after work on my way home in a local restaurant.

So I began searching for a little handheld computer that Educalc had offered in Catalog # 67, the Instant Tech, PTV-30. (Unfortunately I could not afford one when they were first offered.) Now that I could afford the PTV-30, Educalc was no more. I found an advertisement for a similar, more powerful model by Prolinear – the "Palmbook" (a 386 H/PC), but Prolinear was also Tango Uniform. While going into a local grocery store for my mother around Christmas 1998, I saw a computer magazine called Handheld, and on the cover was what looked like the little PC from Educalc. When I picked up the magazine I saw that it was the NEC Mobile Pro 700! I called around, and the nice folks at a local Notebook company in Winter Park, Florida, told me to try the NEC website. I did and I ordered one. The NEC Mobile Pro 700 allowed me to type up my rough draft notebooks just about anywhere and then upload the "pocket Word" documents to my Gateway PC and there assemble and refine the pages into my books.

The NEC Mobile Pro 700 is the incredible little unit, with a full-size keyboard and LCD screen that would go for two weeks on a single set of two AA batteries that allowed me to finish my first two books. I would be typing away at my favorite restaurants and everyone would be amazed by the little NEC. Unfortunately NEC decided to stop making this fantastic unit. (I even missed out on a great closeout sale on the color screen model, at a local Office supply store in 1999!) Except for one of the lid hinges that failed, I had only one other minor problem. I failed to change the memory backup battery once and lost about 6 days of work. (Fortunately my background in Software Quality Assurance and Configuration Management on Software Development projects, had caused me to regularly save and backup my work. The week before I backed up everything on the little machine.) I thought the message was the familiar main battery message, and when I pulled out the AA batteries, the memory was gone.) Not a major problem, I just retyped my notes.

I decided in October of 2000 to incorporate, so as to insure that my life’s work would not be lost. The Institute is the first phase of a series of companies and divisions that will allow me to propagate this work into the future. This web site is also the first of many to come.

Since this web site was started, I received my first Copyright for my first book: SOUL SCIENCE: The Electric Analog. I decided to start another company to handle the business of Soul Science so that the Institute could continue its Charter and Mission Statement. Many things have happened to me and I have once again had a flood of new ideas. It is my sincere hope that Soul Science will benefit all of my fellow Earthling Human Beings.

Founder and President

Soul Science Institute, Inc.