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| Word - God and Universe | p. 1 |
| An Ancient Concept of God | p. 3 |
| The Concept of One God | p. 3 |
| An Abstract Concept of God | p. 7 |
| An Egyptian Concept of God | p. 9 |
| Many gods--But One God | p. 9 |
| The Power of Language | p. 11 |
| God is the Word | p. 13 |
| The Wonder of God as the Word | p. 15 |
| Were the Ancient Egyptians Divinely Inspired? | p. 16 |
| A Jewish Concept of God | p. 19 |
| Remote God and Living God | p. 20 |
| Language, Reality, God's Name | p. 22 |
| The Word is the Name of God | p. 26 |
| Words Created the Universe | p. 27 |
| Conclusion | p. 28 |
| A Christian Concept of God | p. 31 |
| The Christian Word | p. 33 |
| The Power of Words | p. 36 |
| Words Created the Universe | p. 37 |
| Conclusion | p. 37 |
| God as the Word | p. 39 |
| The Thread of the Discussion | p. 39 |
| Uniqueness and Originality of the Concept | p. 40 |
| Points of Contact Between the Spiritual and the Material Realms | p. 41 |
| The Universe as the Scientific Word | p. 43 |
| New Hope for Contact - The Ultra-Small | p. 43 |
| Concept of the Universal Word | p. 44 |
| Levels of Physical Reality | p. 47 |
| Sub-Atomic World | p. 47 |
| Quarks, Electrons and Other Particles | p. 48 |
| Physics Theories of Reality | p. 51 |
| Current Theories | p. 51 |
| The Standard Model | p. 52 |
| SuperString Theories | p. 55 |
| Pure Creation | p. 59 |
| Particles are Discrete | p. 59 |
| Particle Creation and Destruction | p. 60 |
| Data Creation in Computers | p. 64 |
| Reality as Language | p. 67 |
| The Standard Model Defines a Language | p. 67 |
| The Surprisingly Simple Standard Model | p. 69 |
| SuperString Theories are also Linguistic | p. 70 |
| The Universe as a Word | p. 75 |
| Language as the Essence of the Universe | p. 75 |
| The Nothingness of Matter | p. 77 |
| Have We Reached the Deepest Level of Matter? | p. 78 |
| What If There are Deeper Levels of Matter | p. 79 |
| Has Science Found God? | p. 81 |
| Spirit and Science | p. 83 |
| Spiritual VS. Material | p. 85 |
| A Procedure for Determining An Event is Spiritual | p. 87 |
| A Spiritual Phenomenon? | p. 88 |
| A Material Phenomenon? | p. 88 |
| Science is Favored in this Material World | p. 89 |
| Are Flying Saucers Real? | p. 90 |
| Is Matter non-Material? | p. 91 |
| Visions - Spiritual or Scientific? | p. 93 |
| External World Visions | p. 94 |
| Internal Mental Visions | p. 95 |
| Cause or Effect? | p. 100 |
| The Analysis of Near Death Experiences | p. 103 |
| Nature of Near Death Experiences | p. 103 |
| Simple Models of Consciousness and the Brain | p. 105 |
| Can We Experimentally Distinguish Between the Brain and Consciousness? | p. 109 |
| A View of NDE's | p. 112 |
| States of Consciousness | p. 116 |
| Normal and Terminated | p. 116 |
| Ecstatic | p. 116 |
| Sleep | p. 117 |
| Unconsciousness | p. 117 |
| Zombie State | p. 118 |
| Vestigial Hibernation/Suspended Animation | p. 118 |
| NDE State | p. 119 |
| The Reluctant Prophets of Science | p. 121 |
| "Fringe Science" | p. 121 |
| Why Is Science Wary of Religion? | p. 123 |
| Guided Science | p. 124 |
| Amazing Coincidences Between Science and Religious Thought | p. 125 |
| Why Scientists are Reluctant Prophets | p. 126 |
| How Should Science and Religion Relate? | p. 127 |
| Is God Evolving? | p. 129 |
| What Differentiates the States of Perfection | p. 130 |
| Why Should God Evolve? | p. 131 |
| The Evolution of the Universe | p. 132 |
| The Word Evolves towards Self Awareness | p. 133 |
| The Scientific Investigation of God | p. 135 |
| A Scientific Model of God | p. 136 |
| The Science of Infinity | p. 137 |
| The Infinity of Infinities? | p. 138 |
| The Level of God's Infinity | p. 138 |
| God as the Ultimate Time Traveler | p. 139 |
| How Do We Discover Reality? | p. 141 |
| Are Scientific Theories Subjective? | p. 142 |
| Innate Patterns of Understanding | p. 144 |
| Eastern vs. Western Modes of Thought | p. 146 |
| Fundamental Theory of Universal Significance | p. 147 |
| Universality of Laguage | p. 149 |
| A non-Species Specific Universal Language? | p. 150 |
| Other Intelligent Species on Earth | p. 151 |
| Communicating with Other Earth Species: Dolphins | p. 152 |
| Can We Communicate with Alien Species: Project SETI? | p. 155 |
| Languages for Physical Theories | p. 156 |
| Physics on Other Worlds | p. 157 |
| Is There a Best Formulation of a Physics Language? | p. 159 |
| Why is Mathematics Required in Physical Theories? | p. 162 |
| What Is Reality? | p. 165 |
| Dream-like Reality | p. 166 |
| Theories of Everything | p. 167 |
| Cosmos and Consciousness | p. 168 |
| Divine Dream - Not Buddhist Reality | p. 170 |
| Human Consciousness | p. 173 |
| A View of Consciousness | p. 173 |
| The Power of Simulation | p. 175 |
| A Probabilistic Computer Model of Consciousness | p. 178 |
| Cosmos Computer vs. Consciousness Computer | p. 180 |
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