BIOFORM

Life is a journey, one on which we involuntarily found ourselves a member prior to our new and untainted minds comprehending a sense of self. Proof of joining sentient life as a newborn bioform came from the humans known as parents. With teachers, preachers, and others trusted with our survival, they offered essential maps, itineraries, and expected behaviors of our travels, instilling awareness of good, evil, truth, falsehood, reality, and myth. We believed their knowledge to be flawless. We questioned nothing. 
Yet, ageless fears about our journey grew, revealing sacred closets designed to preserve convenient existence, with little respectful vision of life’s primal harmony. What is life, and how do we fit? By what reality do we guide our wanderings? Can we all happily coexist? How do humans understand their corporeal demise? Is God real? Will living in the present moment be the key to our enlightenment? Is freedom from self possible, or is the effort futile? 
Naturalist and philosopher Steve Greene, inspired by reality and truth, rather than ritual and tradition, offers stimulating insight on numerous aspects of our communal, yet frequently self centered, journey. Steve's candid and provocative assessments are vital tools for self evaluation, awareness, and evolution, which ultimately unveil the path to inner freedom, peace, and transcendence of self. 

A life full of self is a world empty of love. 
Respect Life - Share Peace - Live Now 
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The speculations of a philosopher 
are far removed from the judgment 
of the multitude, for his aim is to 
seek truth in all things. 

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543 CE) 
preface to The Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres 
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A declaration for rational thought and life-friendly action ... 

In this probing book, BIOFORM, naturalist and philosopher Steve Greene takes us on a mindful odyssey far beyond the traditional cultural comfort zones, into an exciting arena of unobstructed thought, transcending the limitations of the human self. Steve’s core ideological premise asserts that many self-centered belief paradigms, both on the individual level and collective cultural plane, serve to perpetuate the common “me against them” and “me first” mindsets, the infectious worldviews he perceives as emanating from internalized, and often suppressed, fears, as well as selfish desires for personal, corporate, and national convenience. His path moves beyond the temporal ways. 
Steve believes that numerous embarrassing social aspects of humanity are traditionally ignored, in an attempt to uphold a sanitized existence of perceived private and societal needs, with little authentic vision of, or respect for, the larger harmonious balance of life. He discusses how evolving beyond one’s flawed and finite self will open doors to enlightened awareness, revealing the lack of compassion and sensitivity demonstrated daily through encounters with anything not considered the self. Self protects, he says, while it imprisons. 
Through the telling of his own personal story, he describes where he has been emotionally and intellectually, how certain key events and issues during his temporal life and throughout history have influenced his thoughts, and how he evolves according to the ethical demands that flow from his ongoing study of life. No longer content with following the status quo, Steve explains his independent journey away from misguided teachings and into a new consciousness that recognizes all life as one organism in a vast cosmos not fully knowable by human beings. His evocative viewpoints are guaranteed to kindle flame in readers’ minds, whether newly aware travelers, or those who have witnessed the injustices and bigotry of humanity and now seek truth and inner peace – an often difficult path to personal freedom. 
This book frees today’s new generations from centuries of imagined fears – a liberating manifesto for independent minds.