So, today is the first day I'm going to start telling my ideas to the world. I'm a little scared. Sure I'm just sitting in front of my computer typing away at 12:00 am on a Saturday night; a little Bach playing in the background to soothe my nerves.

But there is a chance that you could be reading this.

Sometime in my future… maybe I'm already dead? Files could get lost on some supercomputer and my little voice (growing slowly as I gain confidence (…I hope)) could reappear in 100 years to be lauded and scoffed.

Although I'm always open to criticism in my life, I also don't normally bear my soul to the world either. You see my theories are my soul. This world - especially the scientific world I live in - can be very harsh. I feel that an open mockery of my ideas is no different than an assault on my religion. People go to war for less.

I do understand the need for science to question. It was this questioning that inspired me to pursue the ultimate truth. What is all of this?

The universe.
Time.
Space.
Matter.
Quantum.
Probability.
Complexity.
Mind.
Consciousness.
Self.
Culture.
Society.
Civilization.
Black holes.
Dark matter.
Quintessence.
Gödel.
ET.
Archetypes.
ESP.
Mysticism.
Angels.
God.

People all over the world question these things from one perspective or another. I don't speak of the overly religious who are wrapped up in dogma. They are not open to anything new. Scientists have they're own sort of dogma. They accept nothing as possible unless it leads to provable conclusions. As such, many potentially good ideas end up on the trash heap. Maybe with a little tweaking, the thought could lead to something magnificent. There are no bad ideas, just unimaginative listeners.

I'm not sure if any of my ideas will lead to testable consequences; a lot of the things I say feel intuitive. I will be as sure as possible to not contradict anything already proven -such as the theory of relativity and the quantum theory. That would be ludicrous. But I also won't adhere to strictly scientific means to describe my ideas either.

When you get into topics as deep as I'm going to go into, a little analogy is not only helpful, I believe it is necessary given my limited understanding as just one man. It is my hopes that these ideas will be built upon by whoever can - scientists and spiritualists alike. I welcome all constructive criticism and will modify my own beliefs to incorporate new ideas.

I am writing these ideas from a position of absolutely no credibility, which I openly admit. I don't have a PhD in mathematics, or physics, or chemistry, or biology, or cognitive science, or anthropology, or cosmology, or theology.

That shoots me down with academics immediately.

I'm not going to say that I've channelled this information from any little birds, or spirit guides, or angels, or aliens, or sixth-dimensional consciousness (I'm not sure if that should be pluralized or not), or god.

That makes it a little less believable to the new age thinkers so popular on the net.

So there it is… I stand naked before you. I'm just a guy who happens to be quite good at solving problems. In fact what I'm really good at is improving on existing solutions to problems. I'm an imaginative listener and I'm standing on the shoulders of some very great thinkers.

I'm not going to be one of those kooks with no degree or any research who write books on self-help either. I've done research. I've read an average of a thousand pages a month for the last five years. Books by people with both the scientific and spiritualistic credentials I've mentioned above. I believe that gives me the right to speak up and take the podium for once. I don't plan to offer guidance on anything. Everyone must live his or her own life. I believe there is a purpose to that as I hope in some way gets outlined in these pages. I also hope that how we should treat each other will be self-evident.

I am a chemist. This will probably show quite readily in the basis of some of my theories.

I grew up in a small town. I went to a Roman Catholic Church every Sunday. I did as well as I had to in school. I drank a lot as a teenager. I stopped going to church.

I went to university. I did as well as I had to in school. I drank a lot. I didn't learn very much other than what I needed to get a job.

I got a job. I moved in with a girl. She left. I drank a lot. I didn't save very much money other than my pension and a little bit for a house someday. I quit that job.

I got a new job. More responsibility. I started 'meditating' - no hangover, you see. It became regular. I met my wife and daughter. This is when I started reading. Having met the woman I plan to spend the rest of my life with coupled with the complete removal of anxiety by the 'meditation', I started to feel that now was the time to pursue something deeper out of life. I started by reading Scientific American.

I was struck by how little it seemed that was actually known. When I grow up as kid I thought all the answers were there. Science had a pretty good idea of what everything was all about. I carried that naivety through most of my twenties. But there it was: gaps.

Gaps in all the theories.
Gaps that could let a little spiritualism through.
And lo and behold there were other people considering the same thing.
And they were actually being mentioned in Scientific American.

The first title I was attracted to was The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra. I went to 'Chapters' to get it but they were sold out. I bought The Physics of Immortality by Frank Tipler instead. Well… although this book was supposed to be written for the 'common man' - and don't forget I am a scientist - it was quite painful to read. The ideas were mind-blowing, but the science was thick and out of my league. I moved to some lighter stuff for a while and read a few textbooks. Eventually I did read Mr. Capra's most insightful book.

I was browsing in a second hand bookstore one day, when I came across a book called Adventures in Consciousness by Jane Roberts. My first thought was "I've gotta read this!'. After the first couple of chapters my next thought was - what a nut. Channelled Spirits eh? LSD eh? I started to sour but what Seth was saying seemed oddly familiar. He had a viable interpretation of quantum theory!

Something was up. Science, Eastern Mysticism, and modern Psychic / Spiritualists were all saying basically the same thing. This enthralled me. I read everything I could about these subjects to strengthen the connection I could see growing. I was an amateur cosmologist.

But then… how did consciousness actually work? I started reading the theories of Daniel Dennett and Antonio Domasio. I started reading about the brain. I read about artificial intelligence. I read some far-out stuff on the internet channelled from an extra-dimensional being. I was an amateur cognitive scientist.

Then I read Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadtler. A lot of the books that I'd read to this point had changed the way I think about certain topics. This book changed the way I think. It describes one thing: strange loops. To describe the theories and their presentation here could only do it injustice. Suffice it to say, I don't imagine I'll ever read a better book.

The next book I read was The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. String theory… now there is a little understood subject. I mean really, all the math is just best guesses! But the ideas were intriguing. In fact, if you just modified the existing theory by…

I had it!

The rush of ideas which ensued would best be described as a tsunami. Although I'd never written anything for myself prior to this occasion, I began to write frantically. I filled half a large lab book in about 3 weeks. Everything (at least at first) which I write in this site was gleaned in that short time. I've spent the last few months allowing everything to settle in. I also did some more reading - was there any obvious evidence to contradict any of these ideas? I mean come on: I read a few books and 'meditate' a little and all of a sudden I have the answers to the deepest riddles in science?

But nothing showed up.

In fact, the newly established fact that the universe was actually accelerating supported my ideas! And, coincidentally, completely disprove Mr. Tipler's Omega Point theory - my first model of a theory of everything. And that brings me to now. With a shaky confidence I step up on the soapbox.

So… Sit back, 'relax', and I'll talk a little about the meaning of it all