Thank you to my son, Johan, whom I drove crazy with my theoretical work. Thank you to my son, David, who taught me how to read Euclid and value primary sources. This work is dedicated to both of you.

Thank you to our entire crew. You are simply amazing and an inspiration to all that work with you! A special place is in my heart for Lesley, Jesse, Lane, Lina, and Vaughn. It is a rare thing to find such amazing people to work with.

Thank you to all my friends (especially my dear friend, Elena Vilkova, who kept me alive while I birthed this idea) who put up with my quest for disproof. Thank you Dina Sologub who saved my life more than once. To Anna Gran in Denmark who listened to my theory in Danish and took me to yoga to share with me her Saturday; to Mona Petersen who hosted my restless mind in Copenhagen during my younger years; Thank you Saduuts for teaching me to find my Yin and carve wood. Thank you Lidiia Kolisnichenko for giving me the strength to do this after a time of healing.

My siblings are the best and a credit to our tribe. Carla who tended to me and heard my torturous screams and kept me alive through the long days and nights; and to Barbara and Amy who all came to tend for me as I was failing at dying. And to Brad who gave me jazz and photography.

And most of all, thanks to all my ancestors behind me and to those who are coming. I still mourn loss of my ancestors from the calamity that struck my tribe. Thank you Jane English for my Tao. I hope I will one day share tea with you.

Thank you to Neal Stephenson who inspired my work and Robert Heinlein for Stranger in a Strange Land. And most of all, thank you also for Douglas Adams in his hint; I know you have your towel with you; I have mine. And to Dr. Marcus Cooke Ph.D UNC Charlotte who taught me the world of the digital in his lab and told me about gas chromatography and how cool real science is.

Thank you for all my wonderful teachers and professors for putting up with me. Thank you Baruch Spinoza for the strength to think. Thank you Archie Carroll for teaching me ethics and publishing my work in your textbook! Thank you to Asterios G. “Stell” Kefalas for teaching me to create new works no matter the area and understand that the world is larger than America.

Thank you to Matt Keiser, Bud Malmstrom and Stephen K. Hayes.

Thank you to Soke Masaaki Hatsumi and all the Ninjutsu Grand Masters who show us the Tao and how to defeat the System of Oppression that alpha males always create around themselves to hide their weakness. To train with you is the greatest honor a healer can know.