TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Prologue

One	The Early Years
Two	New Discoveries
Three	Significant Encounters
Four	Setting Directions
Five	Starting Out
Six	The Courage to Act
Seven	Growing Pains
Eight	Experiments
Nine	Momentum
Ten	Pursuing the Vision
Eleven	Vegas
Twelve	Land of Opportunity
Thirteen	Purging Freud
Fourteen	Developing More Personas
Fifteen	Community
Sixteen	Strangers
Seventeen	Einstein
Eighteen	Fate
Nineteen	Hitting the Top
Twenty	Closed Chapter on an Open Book
Twenty-one	Entropy, Evil, and the Struggle for Transcendence
Twenty-two	Autobiography
Twenty-three	Intensity
Twenty-four	Mysterious Skies
Twenty-five	Shadow and Light

Bibliography of General Resources

Chronology of Articles

Chronology of Short Fiction

Chronology of Books

General Chronology

Index

About the Author

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