How Long Have You Been Standing Here, God?: Seemingly random contemplative thoughts on awareness

TRILOGY BOOK TWO includes three books from my numerous writings. Writing and philosophizing for so long now, I am pleased to get to do this while others simply can't take the time. In my journeys, I don't know if I am getting closer to knowing anything, and it seems the more I know, the more I know I don't know. I suppose all we can be sure of, is that as long as we are alive, we have the opportunity to keep searching, while continuing to delve into our minds and hearts for clues to greater meaning and purpose on earth. How long have you been standing here, God? is the title of the book, and it comes to you along with two others, Evolution: Facts and Fairy Tales and Amistad (Spanish for "friendship"). All three were written with you (the reader and fellow life-mate) especially in mind. If you struggle with your personal spirituality, and need greater awareness that God is on all sides of you, then maybe How long have you been standing here, God? (Book One) will be helpful. If you are wondering about your origins, trying to figure out how it all came about, then perhaps Evolution: Facts and Fairy Tales (Book Two) will make things even more confusing! During my time in Central America, I have learned plenty about the concept of friendship, and I mean that in the context of the whole of life. Amistad (Book Three) is a book about befriending the people, places and things that make up our lives.

Michael Jean Nystrom-Schut has been writing and publishing for some three decades now but trying to figure out the meaning to life's deepest questions for even far longer than that. With several years' background and experience in education, business and real-life circumstances thus-far confronted, the questions, in his mind, still outweigh the answers. Michael has spent many years piecing together a worldview that he considers to be livable, effective and reasonable. Failing to find this from the religious and cultural communities, or from many other more traditional means, he set out on a private, eclectic path of personal enlightenment. He now understands that "the path...the journey..." is individual and unique for each of us. A working philosophy of everyday life is important for all. Michael knows that, and has been active to date in writing over thirty books in an effort to create a pattern of anthological thought that will provide his readers with all of what they need to encounter life in a successful and meaningful way. Michael travels back and forth to work and home, spending two months in the United States, and then leaving for two months to his Costa Rican offices, all year long. He actively labors for his not-for-profit, 501(c)3 corporation (The Center for Health and Human Services) out of offices near the rain forests of Costa Rica, Central America, helping many through various programs who are in need of such help. With a continuous passion for this written work, his quest to leave behind a comprehensive legacy of philosophy and life, in book summary form, is, by his own admission, an endless one.