Returning to the Introduction

I just posted a rewritten chapter 1 (.doc .pdf). Going over this text felt almost like archeology. As I reached the last paragraph, I realized I was looking at the oldest piece of text in the entire draft (two years old). When I wrote the original, I was naturally much less clear than now about my concluding messages---though I feel like I am still discovering those. I have also become more comfortable writing in the first person, thanks to this blog. So the new text is fairly personal in places. See what you think.Having rewritten both book-end chapters, I feel that I am finally over the hump on this book. The process of writing-in-order-to-think is winding down.