A Glossary of the key terms and phrases used in your works would be a very helpful resource for lay readers.

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Apr 4, 2019, 8:29:08 AM4/4/19
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Dear Bernard, I came across your work for the first time in September 2018 through reading Rupert Spira.  I have read all seven of your wonderful books.  They answer questions I seem to have been searching for all my life, and your arguments make so much sense. I am a layman and not versed in formal Philosophy, but have held an interest in conventional and alternative science, and metaphysics, (particularly relating to ontology and epistemology) for many years.  

I have savoured each of your books, appreciating your patient, logical explanations and helpful metaphors while not trying to over-interpret them and extrapolate or extend them unreasonably. I am particularly enthralled by your latest book, The Idea of the World, with it approaching the subject from a more academic angle, relying less on metaphor. It has seamlessly pulled most of the ideas in your other books together, but as I read it (I have not quite finished reading it yet), I have found myself having to look up many of the philosophical terms.  Many of the varied definitions I found in dictionaries and online were either incomplete, misleading, or in the case of public offerings, downright B.S.  

For example, while it's clear what you mean by "ontological primitive", I wished to gain a deeper understanding of the concept, and was shocked to find so many varying definitions online, none of which corresponded to your usage, (perhaps because it is so cutting edge and opposed to the mainstream, consensus view) and all of which proved to be useless in enhancing my knowledge of this important concept. In some cases, I think I have understood your drift, but I am not completely sure. While this may have been a quite poor example, many of the specialist terms and phrases you use also seem to have unique nuance relating to your particular cutting edge ideas and I wondered if it might be be possible at some time for you to produce a specialised Glossary, especially where these words and terms differ from mainstream, conventional meanings, both philosophic and general?








  
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