Putting together excursions for exploring the GCT in any comprehensive and coherent sense is a tall order. Here are a few events that led to my attempt.

The first was Mom’s giving me $5 for reading the entirety of the Bible, which I did twice by the time I was fifteen. It left me questioning the nature of God, revelations, and miracles. These questions simmered in my mind while I earned a Bachelor of Arts in zoology, acquired a Ph.D. in experimental statistics, and took a job in pharmaceutical research. 

Then one night while reading George Mead's Mind, Self, and Society, my questions faded in a revelatory moment that changed my sense of self and how I saw my world. I was flooded with understandings that I hoped to share with scientists like me and farmers like Dad. Strangely, unlike Isaiah in chapter 6, verses 6-8, I was not given the needed words. I was still seeking and finding some of them in the world’s scriptures when my niece asked me, “How can you believe in evolution and the Bible at the same time?” 

That set me wondering wherein lay the difference in these two types of truth. More words started coming when I realized that the basic difference was not between science and religion, but between science and art because of their differing interests in understanding fact and coordinating feeling.

I was justifying my understanding of the differences between science, art, religion, and philosophy when the courtship letters of my parents surfaced. In those letters, while getting to know each other and seeking ways to witness to their faith, they had inadvertently and extensively answered a question that I had put to Dad as a teenager: Why are you a Christian? Once it dawned on me that the letters were intimately tied to the witness they were seeking, I decided to publish them.

Along the way, as described in the preface to the third volume on their letters, words for my truth evolved as well. In that preface you can see allusions to my Journeyman’s Guide to Our Galaxies of Truth. The remaining words of the website came when Heidi McIntyre said the site lacked a clear entry point. Was it a philosophy platform, a spiritual reflection space, a book ecosystem, or a guiding-spirits framework? Once I saw that what I had been calling our truth galaxies were the principal formations in the GCT, I had my entry point.