Author Description

Brand New Story of Creation is the journey of an independent scholar, trained as a Jesuit and seasoned by top-tier executive business challenges. He takes on the avocation of answering the question: What am I doing on a ball spinning in space? The author finds no solace in the formal proofs of God. He observes that no one finds God at the end of a syllogism. Instead he observes that people seem to bring God down into their lives whenever a good deed is performed either by or to them. Spontaneously people seem to respond to a good deed: "God bless you." By doing good deeds to another we seem to bring good/God into the world. The author suggests that we intuit God in our world. Out of his retirement, he brings together a life-long deliberative assessment of the meaning of our lives as seen through the prism of our multiple religions capacity to meet the challenge of unifying the world. His assessment is as was Joseph Campbell's before him: We need a new world-unifying myth. Audaciously he describes a new story of creation. From the deliberate construction of the myth, the author elaborates the ideals and values for a unified world community. Specifically, a personal ethic for each individual is culled from the myth, called Personal Theocracy. To illustrate, Personal Theocracy is described against the foil of today's known state theocracies. Further, the simplicity of ethical conduct in the performance of good works is contrast against the theologically-laden and dogma-focused inhibiting practices of present day religions. Simplicity is stressed in the ethic of Personal Theocracy by way of attention to and use of common sense axioms. The Golden Rule ala Confucius alongside the example of the Good Samaritan are presented as a simple base for a triage-model of ethical behavior. The model consists in 1- awareness of others, 2- response to immediate needs, and 3- provision for long-term healing. The ethic of Personal Theocrac