Searching for answers: What is the reality of the world? How do you base your life on what you believe if what you believe is not based on reality? How can you step outside of your personal reality to see the realty of the world? How can you expand your vision of the world you live in to incorporate the reality of the entire world into your everyday thoughts and decisions?

Example: As an example of Absolute Reality on a single day on January 19 1999 I was snow boarding up on the Continental Divide in Colorado. The sky was a brilliant blues and at 12,231 feet I could see at least a hundred miles in every direction. The freshest white powder was everywhere, two feet of fresh snow had fallen in the blizzard the night before. I was immersed in this great beauty and the peaceful silence of fresh white snow. I was having such an wonderful time, I would never have guessed that half a world away life could be so freakishly different.

More than a year later I viewed a videotape called Cry Freetown that a friend had given me to watch. Freetown is the capital city of Sierra Leone on the West Coast of Africa. Videographer Sorious Samura, a longtime resident and local corespondent in Freetown, documented the brutal civil war taking place in the streets. I watched in shock as Revolutionary United Front rebel forces, known as the RUF, burned houses, brutally tortured, murdered, innocent men women and children on the streets of Freetown. Risking his life to document this horror Sorious Samura was there to record it all on tape. It was startling to learn part of this documentary was taking place on the very same day I snow boarded the fresh white powder of Monarch Colorado. I was finding the answers to my questions and began to understand there is a reality of the entire world, all at the very same time. This became the concept of Absolute Reality.

On that very same day a sixth grader learned how to spell the word Algebra in New York City, someone was murdered, a baby was born, a teenager fell in love, somebody somewhere died of cancer a drug over dose or maybe heart attack. A drunk driver killed an innocent hard working friend of somebody's, and across the world friends were celebrating a couples wedding with a toast of Champagne. In some Third World Country a seven year old child laborer was working twelve hour days in a dingy factory so his family had food to eat, while in California another seven year old pig tailed girl was pouting to her mother that Dairy Queen was out of magic sprinkles. The concept of absolute reality is everything on earth all at the same time, its hard to see balance or reason, clarity or truth, purpose or evolution, but it is all there when you open your mind to see outside the bubble which contains your life.

What were you doing on January 19, 1999? Was it a good day or a bad day?