>I wouldn't suggests wading into that material without taking a class, what you read and what they are saying are two hard things to reconcile. This is a good point, and I think it gets to something practical. You can read what I wrote here, and walk away wondering if I am just spinning in a useless eddy of my mind, or establishing a toehold on something worthwhile. It's really impossible for the reader to know. Only what emerges from a body of work can hope to reveal that, I think. I have much more that I want to address, thoughts that I've accumulated over years, and my plan is just to simply lay them out one way or another. In short, I want to put what I have been thinking to text, and see what comes of it. I'd personally like to have a reference that I can look at, so I can be sure of what I like and what I don't. Most of this is based on what I see as evidence for nothing but relativism, influenced by my physics education. >One thing my professor convinced me of is that we are living in our own myths to which we have scientific supports, but which over time will probably be abandoned (hopefully for more scientific myths). Absolutely. But that itself is a truth. Truth seems to be a pattern, and never a thing.