Perfect Zero

Subtitle: From Science to Spirituality
12 essays on the beauty and utility of zero. "Similar to the slick vacuum of space, which has zero mass and zero density, zero remains deceptively simple. Behind the mask of nothingness there lurks a strange beast full of mystery and wonder."—Perfect Zero, Introduction. Meditation, government, miracles, religion, mathematics, science, entropy, law of attraction and more.
1. The zero used in proper meditation to find perfect mental silence.
2. The zero used to calibrate scientific instruments, and to measure the degree of tyranny in government.
3. The zero found in the humble confidence used to perform miracles and to activate the Law of Attraction.
4. The zero required to neutralize the criminal attitude of "importance."
5. The zero originally found in religious disciplines, before they were corrupted by ego.
6. The zero found in mathematical identities, and how the messy restrictions at this boundary condition may be clues to the nature of spirit, compared to nature.
7. The zero so very much needed in science to remove the types of bias which gave us "Clovis First" dogma, the Valsequillo fiasco, the Climate-Gate emails, and other travesties of anti-science behavior.
8. The zero that can help English recover from the corruption of words used in a very evil agenda discussed by the late David Rockefeller in his Memoirs.
9. The zero that gives hope to life despite the ultimate demise of this physical universe through entropy.
10. The zero that helps us see beyond Einstein's E = mc2.
11. The zero that helps us understand why some can get the Law of Attraction to work, and why so many others, though inspired, fail to make it work.
12. The zero that corrects our understanding about sophisticated concepts brought up by some of history's greatest philosophers.

Rod Martin, Jr. was born in West Texas, United States. He has been a Hollywood artist, a software engineer with a degree summa cum laude, a writer, web designer and a college professor.
Rod Martin's interests have ranged from astronomy to ancient history, physics to geology, and graphics arts to motion pictures.
He has studied comparative religion, worked as a lay minister and spiritual counselor, and taught ethics in college.
While doing graphic arts in Hollywood, he also studied electronic engineering. In 1983, as Carl Martin, he published his first novel, "Touch the Stars: Emergence," co-authored by John Dalmas (Tor Books, NY). He continues to write science fiction under that pen name.
Later, switching careers to computers and information technology, Mr. Martin worked for Control Data, Ceridian Payroll, Bank of America, Global Database Marketing and IPRO Tech. He also created "Stars in the NeighborHood" 3D astronomy space software.
He currently resides in the Philippines with his wife, Juvy. He has taught information technology, mathematics and professional ethics at Benedicto College, in Cebu. He continues to teach online and to write books and blogs.