Cover by Michael Allard
Preface
All my life, I wanted to clear up my confusions. There was so much I did not understand, and that troubled me. I had studied physical sciences, but quantum mechanics was always beyond my grasp. Life felt complex and overwhelming, and I often wondered if I would ever truly make sense of it.
When I retired in 2012, I finally had the time to look for answers. I decided to research the connection between physics and metaphysics — starting with the things that had puzzled me since childhood. I went back to the basics of mathematics, physics, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Scientology.
One practice that proved especially useful was word clearing — the habit of carefully understanding the definitions of words before moving on. I had used this in the Math Club I ran at the Safety Harbor Library from 1995 to 2010, and later through a blog I started in 2010, where I published The Book of Mathematics.
In 2015, I began working with high school dropouts preparing for their GED exams at a facility in New Port Richie, Florida. These young adults had real-life experience that I could only imagine, yet their basic gaps in learning held them back. Word clearing was supposed to help, but they were too overwhelmed to dig back and find where things had gone wrong.
Then something shifted. I organized a set of lectures that started from the very beginning — the most basic ideas in math — and built up step by step. I used an abacus. I showed them that all numbers are written using just ten digits, just as all English words are built from 26 letters. Their faces lit up. Questions started flowing. That is when Subject Clearing was born.
The lesson was clear: every subject has an inner logic. Understanding depends on a smooth, step-by-step path from simple to complex, with no gaps left behind. That is the only reliable way to learn anything.
As that insight sank in, a bold question arose: could the universe itself be treated as a subject? It seemed far-fetched, but no more so than searching for a bridge between physics and metaphysics. And I had the time. So I kept going — until I found the key I had been looking for: the correct definition of the word “substance.” That became the starting point for this book on Postulate Mechanics.
This book may only scratch the surface of what there is to understand. But more than its contents, I hope it points you toward Subject Clearing as a method. It has helped me grasp ideas that once seemed unreachable. I feel fortunate to have lived in an age when the knowledge of great minds is freely available to anyone who looks.
I hope this methodology serves you just as well.
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Chapter 1 — Introduction
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