Jerry Davidson Wheatley

In early 1970, my life radically changed. I was a teacher of science. One of my students looked ahead in his book and asked: "What is color?" I answered: "A thing's color is all color but the color that you see."

I immediately recognized this "color paradigm" could help resolve the philosophy problem of idealism and subjectivism. As a question: Is there a "world out there" or is it some kind of illusory projection?

Empirical science rests on the idea the physical world is "out there." Though not seriously contested, that idea has not been properly established: until now. The color paradigm provided a way to explain that the physical world is separate from one's awareness of it. Later, we learn quantum theory suggests there is no outside reality. A deeper understanding of reality must reconcile these contradictory views.

Seven days after the student asked the color question I had a profound experience. I asked a student to find a large sheet of paper. My mind rushed to fill it in. The result was the Where Aspect Diagram. It was a "generalization" of the color paradigm. It was a revelation, which I wrote down as it occurred. There is a photo of it in customer photos.

The Where Aspect Diagram was packed with information. When I tried to explain what happened and what I was learning, most friends and family members believed I experienced a mental breakdown. They didn't suppose that, because of any unusual behavior on my part, but because of what I was saying. I became a patient in a mental clinic for about a month. I quickly learned not to say much about what I was experiencing.

I was compelled to track down the source of this revelation and learn why it occurred. It was no coincident! Extraordinary experiences continued. There was no denying something astonishing was happening. When someone experiences a real revelation, it is quite unsettling. I began delineating the structure of reality.

Within five days after the revelation, I stopped sleeping. I then realized the body rests; the mind sleeps. My mind was functioning 24 hours a day trying to understand what was happening and why. My eyes were so dry during daytime that it took a few weeks to adjust. I did lie down and rest during the night, but my mind just kept reasoning to understand. When a hospital nurse would ask, "Are you sleeping OK?" I smiled, and answered, "As well as I can!"

I quickly understood most people's minds only function with respect to the physical world. When a mind "awakens," it can function independently of the physical world. I realized what real "born again" meant. It is the mind, or spirit, resurrecting: beginning to function on its own, again!

Most scientific revolutions result from breakthrough efforts of lone individuals. This is not something I intended to do. It is something that happened to me, and I responded with scientific honesty. That unexpected experiences lead to new ways of understanding is no surprise. That is how scientific revolutions often begin. And, this was the big one.

Physics principles enabled a systematic arranging of the diagrams into a hierarchy to represent what physics is all about - the structure of reality. The structure defines how everything interrelates. However, it did not immediately answer all questions.

The big questions of philosophy and science are answerable only when the structure of reality is reexamined through the lens of other disciplines. Multidisciplinary research produced a categorical understanding of everything.

A multidisciplinary examination of reality's structure led to an explicit defining of consciousness. It is derived from an equation - the "Theory of Everything" equation.

The book states what I learned. It says little about the amazing experiences that led to the extraordinary knowledge and understanding described in this book.