Letters to No One in Particular is presented to discuss and to illustrate Spinoza's 'Fragment', "On the Improvement of the Understanding." The goal is to present a faithful rendering, in simple language, of Spinoza's discovery of the existence, presence and operating functions of the Human Mind. This pamphlet is written for the intelligent and curious reader who recognizes that we as humans are unique and not comparable to any other creatures on earth. Spinoza detailed our uniqueness and further explained our mind's ability to connect us with the "Whole of Nature." Without any outward...

Everything which we have so far learned from the application of the scientific method about the extended universe tends toward standing in support of Spinoza's concept of the one substance which constitutes the being of, and beyond that, is the cause of everything. Beginning with the weirdly named 'big bang'; all objects in the known universe emanated from one source. This source originated in an unimaginably huge detonation which exploded from its compressed state, and transformed into all of the matter and the dark matter which taken together account for all that is visible, invisible and...