A Time for Fusion (ePub)

Bill Calhoun was born in California in 1932. He truly feels the experience of being born at a good time for America. We were slowly leaving the great depression behind and entered a war for which we were well prepared and emerged victorious. We were at the top of America's peak in world view and helped Europe recover for the war, established NATO, and helped form the United Nations which could be seen as an outgrowth of Wilson's plan for a League of Nations following WW I. I rode this high into college and naval aviation training about the time of the Korean War which turned out to be the start of America's decline. I completed flight training and served aboard the USS Orinskany for one tour in the Pacific. I flew the Banshee which was an all weather, night fighter converted to carry the nuclear bomb. When my tour was up I returned to College to earn the Bachelors in Psychology at Stanford University and then to U. C. Berkeley to earn the PhD in Psychology. I and my family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee where I was a faculty member until my retirement. Having time I began to write and this will be my fourth book. I became interested in Buddhism and the east and also saw this as a time when America could be crucial in bringing about a new world order in which peace rather than war was the goal. America tried to use its military might to rule the world as if this would bring about peace. That policy has failed in that goal and America's drive for empire is misguided. We need to reorient our national goals with the eye toward furthering a genuine coalition of the nations of the world where we accept our role as one of many nations. For me the parallels of western philosophy and religion and eastern philosophy and religion are clear and offer a means whereby we can seek fusion.

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