After much pondering, writing, and 'laboring over every word,' the structure of my book is complete.
It will unfold thus.
The Religion of Opinion
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Exposing What We’ve Lost
Chapter 2: Cultural Conditioning, the First Step
Chapter 3: The System and the Machine
Chapter 4: A Taste of Opinion in History and Today
Chapter 5: You and Opinion: An Unintentional Marriage
Chapter 6: The Unrecognized Idol
Chapter 7: A Call For A Divorce
Chapter 8: Perspective: The Freedom To Grow
Chapter 9: Pleasures of Restoration
Chapter 10: What Are You Going To Do Now?
Appendix A: A Few
Definitions
Appendix B: The Religion of Opinion - Doctrine and Covenants
Appendix C: The Religion of Opinion - Statement of Faith
It is now a 'full cycle' work. Milton's two poem
titles "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained" come to mind.
The work identifies, exposes, demonstrates, and seats the problem, then provides the vision of the way out of its grasp.
Acknowledgements and Preface are done, Preface needing a little reworking now.
Appendix B and C are done, but will be reviewed later as the writing may inform them a bit.
All the labors over the structure have informed what will soon be the completed Introduction.
Appendix A is underway, - expository on the needed Definitions for both author and reader, which will also inform the Introduction.
Then the chapters will unfold naturally, feeding from one to the next.
For those of you who pray, pray with me I be provided 'blocks of time' - things very difficult to find - needed for concentrated development and moving at pace. Things are settling in timewise now, and there is hope. But remember - if we hold our hopes too tightly, they can easily lead to disappointments when they do not materialize.