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THE OZ FACTORS, New Audiobook — Forward

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LISTEN TO THE FORWARD OF THE NEW AUDIOBOOK VERSION OF THE OZ FACTORS, Narrated by Barry Abrams

FOREWORD

            “The river of human history  is clogged with the putrid refuse of unworkable solutions to the mysteries and problems of Life: war, ruined civilizations, insanity, mental anguish, drugs, despair, murder, disease, criminality and starvation. We are victims of our individual and collective inability to find workable solutions to these unwanted conditions.

             Our humanity has long since been exceeded by the power of the wicked witches of science and government to destroy all life with nuclear weapons, alter our DNA and control our minds with psychotropic drugs and our lives with media lies.

             Our thoughts and conjectures about life and the universe are often based on assumptions, unproven theories, hearsay, rumors and misinformation.  Decisions we make in life may be based on ancient attitudes and archaic practices.  Marketing spin replaces honesty when the financial, political or religious vested interest of wizards and witches are more important than freedom, sanity and survival.

             There are 12 common denominators that  prevent observation, understanding, and workable solutions to problems of existence.  How do each of these “Oz Factors” influence our history, science, philosophy, our lives and our future?   We can chose our own Yellow Brick Road.  We can pull back the curtain of rhetoric and dogma.  We can  build a better Emerald City for ourselves and our children.

             Do you really want to go back to Kansas?”

 Lawrence R. Spencer

PARALLEL UNIVERSES

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parallel universeMostly Harmless is the FIFTH book in the Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy Trilogy, by Douglas Adams.  I read all of Douglas Adams books this year, a few for the second time.  I consider Adams to be one of the greatest philosophers in human history, although, like Mark Twain, he was considered to be a humorist.  Any valuable philosophy must expose the random absurdities of human existence, which is also a definition of humor.  –  LRS