A PERSONAL MESSAGE

            We have good reason to maintain an attitude of gratitude for the marvelous opportunities we enjoy.  Most of us, I think you included, enjoy better food and more comfortable shelter than the kings of several hundred years past.  No doubt, you share our most common wants ... peace-of-mind, peace-in-the world.

            I attribute my own peacenik tendencies to the good fortune of having Jerome Frank¹ as a mentor during my training in psychiatry at Johns Hopkins.  Among his many insights, he explained why our nature numbs our mind to the ominous danger of weapons of mass destruction.  We have neither history of the WMD we now create nor the proliferation of persons who both seek and express their intent to use them.  Out of sight, out of mind!  Many who would face the issue maintain a sense of futility, an attitude of helplessness. This is the most devastating of our choice of mental responses; it results in a “give up” attitude that shuts down our energy factory.  Our prevalent manner of thinking emphasizes cure more than prevention.  You know that prevention is worth a ton of cure, especially when cure may be out of the question given our growing destructive power.

            Einstein, upon conceiving our first WMD, told us what we must do in this New Era of human history, just emerging in our very own lifetime.  “We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive!”  Because I believe Einstein was right, the preparation and free distribution of the Guide is my effort to develop and popularize a newer manner of thinking (ANWOT) that can make a difference.  The resources required to proliferate weapons of mass construction are abundantly available to us if we but apply our will to our collective efforts. 

If you agree with the premises explained in the Guide, please refer others to this free E-book at ANWOT.org.   If you have the computer disk, make copies and pass them on, and/or refer others to the printed copy when it is available.*  ANWOT makes a nice gift!  Each one, teach one is the primary means to create a chain reaction, as it has effectively popularized our great religions, Alcoholics Anonymous, Amway home products, Mary K cosmetics, and so on.  I believe you will benefit by becoming part of the solution more so than passively remaining part of the problem.

                                                            Sincerely,

 

                                                            Donald Pet, M.D.  

*I am preparing a hard-bound book that I expect to be available in the near future in book stores.  While this E-book (or CD) has much duplication, as is required in a study curriculum, the paper book will be more suitably read as a book.  A published book sold at a commercial book store cannot be available free; however, I will donate my personal profits to an appropriate non-profit organization supporting the goals of ANWOT.