Caveat Emptor: Because all writing is fictional (even scientific texts and especially religious literature), what follows is an auto-myth-ography. Although much occurred as described, by necessity a certain amount of poetic license was taken to shield the innocent, mask the guilty, compress time, and compact space. Also, the author's memory, while usually sharp as a tack, is itself subject to the ineluctable reprocussions of time: amplification, embellishment, contrivance, and forgetfulness.
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INTRODUCTION An explanation for the wayward story that unfolds.
PART ONE: An Untimely Incarnation
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Chapter 1 From Birth to the Age of Six
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Chapter 2 From Seven to Eight
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Chapter 3 From Eight to Seventeen
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Chapter 4 Seventeen
PART TWO: Atop the Tower, Head in the Heavens
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Chapter 5 Born Again with a Brother Sun Chaser
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Chapter 6 College, Collapse, & World Walking
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Chapter 7 Points South
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Chapter 8 North by Northwest
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Chapter 9 At the Top of the Tower
PART THREE: Descending Babel
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Chapter 10 The 1 st Step: Willing Sacrifice
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Chapter 11 The 2 nd Step: Universal Salvation & Beyond
- Chapter 12 The 3 rd Step: Denying Salvation on Moral Grounds
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Chapter 13 The 4 th Step: The "Five Books of Moses"
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Chapter 14 The 5 th Step: The Biblical Canon & Councils
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Chapter 15 The 6 th Step: Authorship of Gospels & Epistles
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Chapter 16 The 7 th Step: Biblical Criticism & Scholarship
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Chapter 17 The 8 th Step: Dying & Rising Gods Predating Jesus
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Chapter 18 The 9 th Step: The Origins of the Trinity Doctrine
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Chapter 19 The 10th Step: Comparative Religion & Influences
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Chapter 20 The 11th Step: Eastern Religion & Philosophy
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Chapter 21 The 12th Step: Critical Thinking & Rational Inquiry
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Chapter 22 The 13th Step: Occam's Razor & the Scientific Method
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Chapter 23 The 14th Step: Laws of Physics & the Natural World
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Chapter 24 The 15th Step: The Artifice of Words
PART FOUR: The Real World
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Chapter 25 Liberation ("License") & Its Aftermath
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Chapter 26 In the Flesh
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Chapter 27 Marriage, Parenthood, & Infidelity
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Chapter 28 Reality Check I: A Sobering Experience
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Chapter 29 Reality Check II: September 11, 2001
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Chapter 30 Reality Check III: On Dementia, Death, & Dying
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Chapter 31 Awakening ("Understanding")
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Chapter 32 A Carnival of Somethings
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EPILOGUE The End-Game ("Silence")
