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From: Bruce S.
Date: Saturday, February 23, 2008, 9:18 AM
Subject: Good morning
ID: 259841

Just a quick hello -- as something stirs down in the roots of the this project....

By way of brief introduction, this "Bridge Across Consciousness" network was originally developed in the early 1990's, beginning in 1993. We were operating then on "listserv" technology, run by the University of California at Santa Barbara, and "The Bridge" ("BRIDGE-L" as it was called) was actually in operation for six years -- sending more than 30,000 messages on various themes having to do with epistemology, cognitive science, and the question of whether or not "all religions are pointing towards a common reality".

As things continued to evolve, I got introduced to the web about 1994 or 1995, and in 1996, we created "United Communities of Spirit", which morphed into an online database project about 1997, and which has been online ever since.

It's interesting that Mr. Bill Daunch, a scientist and chemical engineer who got involved with BRIDGE-L in beginning, contacted me recently, and is currently on the mailing list for new project. I don't know if Bill will have time to be involved here -- but he is on the list. Bill was a vital part of our original network -- it was Bill who first introduced me to the web. I had never heard of the web -- and I remember well that I simply could not relate to these strange technical concepts -- "http://" -- what the heck is that....

It literally took me six months before I found the free cognitive space to even look at the web. I just could not assimilate the concept directly. But it soaked it -- and over time, we continued to build web projects, and now, the web is obviously essential to everything we are doing. so, I hope you will find some of this interesting, Bill -- and not too vapid or airheaded for your hard-edged technical vision.

Also, let me mention, that about a month or six weeks ago, a writer and grad student named James Corrigan joined UCS. James has recently published a book entitled "Introduction to Awareness", which I felt contains a perspective that could add a lot to a conversation like this. James is one of these special people who has an instinct to combine the technical and analytical with the deeply intuitive. James worked as a programmer and database developer for many years, and is currently in graduate school. James has contacted me by email, indicating his interest and willing to explore the Bridge project, so I am looking forward to seeing what we can uncover. What I am thinking is -- I will buy and read his book, and comment on it here -- and he will review some of the technical writing on "Synthetic Dimensionality" (the algebraic theory behind the Bridge idea).

I am also supposing that it would be interesting to build some special features on our new web domain, http://bridgeacrossconsciousness.net. I have placed the entire content of a general introduction to psychology on that site, that presents a graphical approach to something like 70 different schools of psychology -- an approach which I feel is very suggestive and illuminating as regards this issue of bridging the analytical with the intuitive.