Ten Discoveries from Biology to Spirituality: Hidden & Life-Giving Connections: Biographic Book of Tens, #1

By Michael A. Susko

Summing a lifetime of work, ten discoveries are explored, ranging from our biological, historical and archetypal being. In each area, the author introduces a novel way of  looking at things, some of which are unique to his work, and some which he hopes to take further and make plain to others. Often, this multi and interdisciplinary approach reveals the importance of relationship and hidden connections which are life giving. Interestingly, time and the process of change often play an important part in these discoveries. We invite you to entertain the novelty introduced in each of these ten domains, which will help us tap into our visions and fulfill our dreams.

 

 

 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: AllrOneofUs Publishing
• Release date: Mar 26, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224524471

Michael A. Susko

The author, having degrees in philosophy and psychology, has taught a variety of classes, from dream interpretation to Indigenous studies. He has also helped to found and taught in a progressive charter school that used arts integration, in which two disciplines were intertwined. In his own research, he has embraced and published in a variety of topics. In this biographic series he hopes to share his life through sayings that has helped to guide his life. 

Book preview

Prelude

In this work I seek to convey to others what I have experienced as discoveries over the course of a lifetime. Although I have done considerable writing and have published, I don’t see myself as a writer. My real pleasure is what I write about, what I have come to discover. It is not something I have made, but have uncovered, a beauty already there, in which writing is a tool to reveal. This pleasure and excitement have driven me, and along with an ability to make complex things simple,  I  offer them as a gift to people.

This book is subtitled Hidden and Life-Giving Connections, one that emerged from outlining this work. Reality does not fully reveal itself at first or second glance, and much remains hidden and needs to be discovered. The title Ten Discoveries from Biology to Spirituality highlights the domains that were explored. Discovery takes work, imagination, and an openness to consider we may not really know something, and that we can come to know it. Not all are open to discovery or willing to do the work necessary to find the hidden and life-giving connections between things.

Ten Discoveries cover multiple disciplines and arenas of life. The value of a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary awareness is that we are more likely to find a holistic vision that is life-giving. One discipline supplements, corrects, and completes another. We are biological and historical beings who also dream, imagine, appreciate beauty, and are intimately connected with others. In all this, we are also living a story with its joys and challenges. It would well for us to connect the dots, to open doors to the variety the universe presents and see what it tells us, what it is encouraging us to be and do.

I don’t pretend to offer specific answers or have singular truths that will solve the problems life presents. I will let the discoveries present what that may. However, I think they might, as they did for me, be a help for us to realize our dreams. And that is all one can do, is to try to flourish and help others to flourish. We can’t live other people’s lives, make their decisions, or even know, with any absolute certitude, what is right for them in a given situation. We can, however, try to be loyal to their loyalties and help them actualize their lives.

It may seem presumptuous to say one has made discoveries in multiple disciplines. I would qualify this by saying they are discoveries to me and by extension may be experienced as such by others. Not everyone, I realize, may be interested in all of these domains, particularly at this given point in their lives. Perhaps only a few are of immediate relevance. A person may not be curious or even believe in an evolutionary back story, but they may have  vivid dreams and be curious as to their meaning.

What do I mean by discovery? Partly, it relates to an inner excitement which motivated me to act and spend untold hours in further exploration. They led me to view reality in a different way. Some discoveries appear to be novel, as they have not entered the public domain or the  scholarly world, or if it has, remains on the fringes. Thus, this may well be the first time you are hearing about these findings, or  even the possibility of such findings.

Artificial Intelligence or AI, as revolutionary as it is, cannot create such findings, or is even be aware of their possibility. In terms of conceptual systems, it seems AI reflects the basic intellectual world created decades ago, which has already gained common acceptance. AI does not know the future and cannot conceive of things that the world does not yet believe or have come to see as true. It does not know the incipient. But you are invited here to learn about things which, I believe, lie more in the future.

We are ready to convey the ten discoveries which we summarize first.

Introduction

In the introduction, I will briefly outline the ten basic areas of discovery, ranging from the visionary to the scientific. In finding the source experience of discovery and outlining the essence of further discoveries, we can gain a valuable holistic sense of our nature. Trying to tell the essence of discovery has a way of bringing out the core of things, how it relates to our being, and how it might motivate us.

Order is always important in the scheme of things, and a given variation may have worked