A Search for Significance
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About the Book
Humanity’s search for significance has been ongoing since the earliest humans asked the first questions. Answers have come from the arrangements of stars, from nature, and from many gods. The changing perspectives created by myth, religion, and science have molded our social and spiritual relationships and our perceived place in the natural world. The process forms our core beliefs, gives us direction, outlines our history, and determines our future. Understanding how our differing perspectives both join and separate us is essential if we are to survive our current dominance over natural processes.
About the Author
Vern A Westfall is an author, a philosopher, a pilot, a teacher, and a designer of fine homes. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Miami University attended the United States Air Force Academy and has flown many aircraft, including jet tankers and supersonic spy planes. He has lived and worked in many countries, has served as a foreign liaison officer, has been a college instructor, a high school teacher and a teacher of talented and gifted children. He has designed over one hundred luxury homes and has extensive experience in civil and industrial engineering. Now semi-retired, he writes fictional and non-fictional works related to humanity’s search for a place and purpose in an expanding universe.