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  I am ignorant of a great many things. Only a fool would deny their limits and ignorance.  
  Questions of fundamental philosophy  
  Like I mentioned at the beginning, I am ignorant of a great many things, so when at the age of five and six I felt I was having these great conversations with God and people like Archbishop Little on questions such as "why does the universe exist?", "what is the purpose of life?", "why are we here?" and "what happens when we die?" I did not know these were also the great fundamental questions of western philosophy.  
  Nor did I know that a great many minds and a great many thinkers had tried (and failed) to come up with simple and undeniable answers. I just accepted the clear answers that I felt were given to me as something that everyone else would understand and know. That everyone could or had conversations with God and that these answers were no more difficult than asking "why is their thunder after lightning?"  
  I knew there was something more to life because I felt the exchange of awareness with what I perceived at the time to be God. It was new information. It was answers. I knew that we are all connected, because that is what I felt I was told and what my feelings and senses told me on beautiful sunny days. I knew that we were all spiritually connected, because I could feel in my heart and I would start to cry at the pain of others when confronted by human suffering.  
  Because I had not read any of the books of the great philosophers, because I was lazy, I had no idea how extraordinary or normal these thoughts were. I just assumed everyone had some balanced cosmology in their own minds.  
  The quest for the personal philosophy of purpose  
  I am not alone in using the search for deeper meaning as the one constant in an otherwise chaotic life. Each of us may find a similar theme. Another way of describing such a journey is as the development of a personal philosophy of purpose.  
  How I constructed my world was upon what I saw, heard, read, thought, and dreamed. From the perspective of the "outer world", I had never any doubt. The outer world has always made sense for me. However, it was the inner world where I have struggled most, where I have sought to understand some personal philosophy of purpose.  
  This struggle can best be described as one of evolution and struggle between destiny and free will. Does my life have a destiny and if so what of free will? or is the sense of destiny an illusion and I am ultimately responsible for all my decisions?  
  There are lots of different ways to same the same thing as I have just said. You can boil it down to some clinical analysis of my state of mind and maybe even call it some clinical illness.  
  Or you can call it some delusion battle between being a normal human being and some crazed messiah. Or you can call it a perfectly normal battle every human experiences between the conscience and their ego.  
  Philosophy, ego and the damage of half baked ideas  
  Probably the most sobering realization that has affected my philosophy in recent years is the realization that the fame and fortune I sought, like so many other men and women, in the case of philosophy, has been some of the driving reason behind so many half-baked ideas having created such immeasurable damage to the collective soul of homo sapien sapientae.
  
  Incomplete manifestos have chained the human mind into thinking certain ways and worshipping their authors for thousands of years. Incomplete ideas have held us back on our understanding of who and what we are.  
  When I reflected on the true impact of many of the "great philosophers" and "gurus", it was also a hard fact to ignore that they had in some ways done more harm than good to the soul of humanity. Yes, they had provided some enlightenment, but at what cost?  
  Therefore, I have been patient. I have worked gradually through the various works to seek their completion, without rushing to recognition.  
  The formation of UCADIA- the skeleton of ideas  
  UCADIA and the associated web sites you see today have come about through a series of major edits and understandings over the space of some fifteen years now.
  
  At the beginning of the 1990’s as I struggled to find reasoning in my life, I wrote down a skeletal set of arguments- what is the purpose of my life? What is the purpose of life? Why am I here? What is the meaning to the universe?
  
  Yes, these questions are universal amongst people in seeking to understand reasoning of existence. Like many others before, I merely wanted to understand answers that might be relevant to me.
  
  Rather than flooding a page with words, I started to make a connection map of all the concepts I knew and all the areas of the puzzle at that point I still did not understand. After about six months of tinkering I had a skeletal map of reason which outlined the higher and higher meanings of meaning ending with “life is a dream”.
  
  The building of UCADIA.Com  
  As it turned out, simply having a skeleton of concepts which all fit together did not mean people would beat a path to your door. In fact most people rightly said “so what?” While I felt I had something special to say, I am neither the first, nor probably the last person to ask such fundamental questions. Instead, it became a question of providing information around the skeletal structure of wisdom as to why I made the claims like “life is a dream”. Thus the web site UCADIA.COM was born.
  
  Three years later, while I continued to write software to earn an income, the first draft of UCADIA.Com was ready. Instantly I felt that it would be a smash hit, a top web site and a place where “millions” would come. To be fair, few web sites, even religious ones capture more than a few thousand visitors per year and so the traffic growth to Ucadia.Com has been slow. I also found that it was not enough to merely talk of ideas, but I would frequently meet a strong degree of confusion over so many words. Thus the UCADIAN language was created to help condense the information
  
  The Ucadian Language  
  I felt that if I could construct a clear set of symbols that represent the concepts of UCADIA that this would make the understanding of the key ideas easier.
  
  I even tested the symbols on a range of people, even children with learning difficulties and have since found it is a powerful tool to enhance understanding and even, possibly help cure severe learning and cognitive disabilities.
  
  I felt certain that such a symbolic system would herald new interest in the UCADIAN model and my work. This was not to be. In spite of writing to over 144 key influential people around the world, all that I received were polite “don’t bother us” replies.
  
  The charters  
  Frustrated, I returned to the UCADIAN philosophy and the idea of reform. I thought to myself that if “leaders can’t see the possibility of new structures, I will have to create the structures myself”. Thus the constitutions of africans-union.org, arabian-union.org, americas-union.org, asia-union.org, oceanic-union.org, one-spirit-tribe.org, one-jerusalem.org,one-ireland.org, united-china.org, united-korea.org,one-heaven.org, one-islam.org, one-faith-of-god.org and one-spirit-tribe.org were formed.
  
  Having spent years searching for the deeper truth of my faith, I initially considered sites concerning the topic of religion and spirituality as well as models of societies as potentially counter productive.
 
  This is because I was still thinking of knowledge and change in terms of the "romantic myth" of revolution, that somehow good men and women grasp ideas, seek to stand for their rights and then change eventually occurs.  
  Of course, such ideas are fatally misguided as well as flawed. The romantic revolution is typically far from romantic and usually bloody, with the end result usually installing a regime one hundred times worse than its predecessor. Secondly, forcing people to change their beliefs is a soul destroying action if successful or endlessly frustrating if a failure.  
  Our beliefs and our culture is an intimate part of us, whether or not some of these beliefs are illogical and even bad for our physical and spiritual health.  
  Rather than writing to people to tell them their beliefs need review, I perceived of the great charters as a way of revitalizing people’s existing faiths, without there having to be major upheaval and cultural war. This is where I find myself today, in finishing the construction of these various entities and the hope of attracting people to support in their growth.
  
     

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