Growing up in a Christian home can be difficult for some. This first-generation Nigerian American found himself at a crossroads at a very young age. On the road behind him was Ancestral worship. Though he never participated in it he was aware of the eternal nature of the soul and the different gods his ancestors worshipped. On another road was Christianity and across from it, Science.
He considers himself an old soul, with a young heart, and a mind like a double-sided mirror, one side a magnifying glass, the other side a telescope. This created within him a nature that never stopped questioning. In his early teens he read about the different mythologies of the world, reincarnation, psychology, and parapsychology, as well as his fair share of comic books.
At some point in his late teenage years, he got tired of never getting straight answers to the many questions he had about God. Responses like ‘have faith’ and ‘that’s just the devil trying to confuse you’ could never satisfy a mind that believed if God created everything then God should be able to answer any question one could think of. So as soon as he was old enough to say no to church, he did. However, his fondness of the Christ figure never left him and in hindsight he knows that he received guidance through the metaphoric desert ahead.
For the next decade or so, the author was in despair. He explored atheism and fought against the urge to return to church. Through years of meditation, he could not shake the sensation that there was something beyond human experience.
It was while training to be an electrician (which never materialized) that he learned about the nature of the atom and the flow of electrons. That is when his love for science grew. Within the atom he saw a universe he could withdraw into and that is when he found God. A god that revealed himself the more he looked. Like a kid in a candy store, the author raced ahead full speed into theoretical physics.
A quote from one of his favorite scientists Albert Einstein went ‘Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind’. The author began to realize that religion was incomplete. He realized that the church couldn’t answer his questions because they didn’t know the answers; they never bothered to ask.
He later found his way back to the Bible, back to the teachings of Christ (which he took with a grain of salt knowing the teachings had been translated and rewritten several times) and hidden within the parables, the author found even more validation that he was on the right path.
He published his first book ‘Infinite Process: the end of the beginning’ in 2006. It was a book where he attempted to reconcile his new perspective with the Bible. The journey was still not complete.
A questioning mind never stops questioning and the author kept looking for more validation on this new perspective of his and kept finding it. He eventually stumbled across the Apocryphon of John when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, and like a tidal wave of sunlight, it all made sense. His perception of an Ultimate Perfect Power beyond human comprehension wasn’t new; people were writing about it almost two thousand years ago.
With renewed vigor the author decided to write his current book ‘God Doesn’t Care…As Much As You Do’. The title is meant to be provocative because the author feels a good majority of humanity either take advantage of or rely too much on the presence of God, and that has led to isolation, ridicule, false doctrines, and other negative occurrences within the human race. The idea of a personal god is the response of self-centeredness and egotism.
The cover of the book is a merger between Michelangelo’s painting of the ‘Creation of Man’ (God, just out of reach, reaching down to man) and the ‘Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Plants’ (God orchestrating the heavenly bodies). The former is stripped of the ‘god’ reaching down and of the background (to show the incompleteness of humanity) and placed beneath the latter (showing that a true Ultimate Perfect Power would not be bothered with the goings on with the inhabitants of this tiny planet).
Around the time of publishing the book the author was discussing his beliefs with someone online, and they mentioned that the Ultimate Perfect Power sounded a lot like ‘Spinoza’s God’. True to his nature, the author immediately did some research and lo and behold, there it was again; yet another version of the Ultimate Perfect Power explained by a great philosopher in the mid 1600’s.
With joy of confirmation the author also came across another quote from his favorite scientist, Albert Einstein – “I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings”.
The author plans to follow up with several more books. One to focus exclusively on the Ultimate Perfect Power. One to focus primarily on the Infinite Process and the final book to focus on the Misinterpretations of the Christ figure and its necessary connection with the Ultimate Perfect Power.
