Message in a Bottle (The Obviousness of Infinity: An Ontological Inquiry‪)‬

This book marks the culmination of a decade-long inquiry into Truth. After years of a nearly obsessive desire to understand the true nature of consciousness and reality, Elias finally arrived at the "end of knowledge" and considers himself "enlightened". This book is his attempt to share his experience and aide you in your pursuit as well.

The book begins with a personal account of the author's life and thought processes leading up to and throughout his seeking years. Spurred in large part by the experience of losing a parent at a young age, this backdrop attempts to emphasize some underlying reasons behind the desperation to understand reality. The section following is a discussion of the "pros" and "cons" of enlightenment as it is defined in this work, and as such highlights key features of the enlightened state itself. One main objective of this "pros and cons" section is to illuminate what we (from the ego-identified standpoint) might consider the undesirable aspects of our true nature. It is our failure to acknowledge these aspects specifically that is perhaps the most common reason we do not see what is otherwise obvious and unhidden.

The sections thereafter entitled "Thought Experiments", "Pleasure and Pain", "Sexuality and Romance", "Free Will", "Absolute vs. Relative Purpose", and "Final Words: A Rehash" are mostly elaborations on the main theme of reaching the "end of knowledge" or "enlightenment". They guide the reader through lines of inquiry designed to deconstruct conventional perspective and default paradigms and to thereby reveal reality as starkly more open and infinite than previously imagined.

Posing more questions than answers, this work attempts to reveal how we can come to know beyond any shadow of a doubt that we can't actually know (and never will be able to know) that which we seek to know. Let us satisfy and lay to rest the intellect once and for all in its quest for ontological knowledge by revealing its fundamental inability to obtain that which it seeks.