KNOWING CHRIST is basically an assembly of past essays and songs written from 1983-2011 that are mostly personal commentary about my Divine Naturist (Christian) perception of life – with a few politically oriented commentaries thrown in. By Divine Naturist, I mean that I Believe that All Existence is Divine or of or filled with God. I have written many books about this theme – including some which are “Jesus Oriented” because I Believe that Jesus was really a Divine Naturist. This book is supplementary to 8 previous books and basically includes “left over” essays and commentary written down through the years that have not been included in the past 8 books. Another book – TRUE CHRISTIANITY – features additional “left over” works. Recently, I decided that maybe I should publish two more books to include most of what has heretofore been “left out,” so to speak. My basic approach to life is to live it gratefully because I see All Life as Miraculous. It is not “lacking,” as so much religion considers it – simply because it has to be of God, given that God is only a name for the Infinite. The Infinite extends to all and embraces all due to “being everywhere.” There is no “outside of God” and therefore nothing could have been “outcast from God” as so much religion claims. We are all Divine. That is the basic theme of all my writing. If, in fact, we are all Divine – and everything and everywhere is Divine – then it stands to reason that “Salvation,” if you want to call it that, is only Acting like such is so. The title – KNOWING CHRIST – is based on one of the articles of this book – an essay originally written in 1989 and rewritten a bit in 2005. Initially, it was named QUIET PASSAGE and I did print a brief paperback edition of it in 1989 and shared it with some friends and family, but in my 2005 rewrite, I renamed it KNOWING CHRIST; and it is as such that I include it here in this work. I do Believe that Jesus Christ really believed that All Existence is Divine – and that the ideal is to live like that is so. Most Christians believe that we are all of sin – meaning separated from God – and that Jesus lived to reunite us with a God from which earlier we became distracted. I think Jesus came to instruct us that separation from God is a myth – and such is a tale from the mostly unknown gospels of apostles of Jesus – Thomas and Mary Magdalene. This work – like many of my works – attempts to argue that case. We are all “saints,” being of and in and within God. We are all Equally Sacred. The problem is we do not know it – and therefore we often act like we are the “worthless” beings we believe we are. When people lack a sense of Belonging, they act with a sense of isolation and a lack of worth; and that often leads to living life destructively and not gratefully. Hopefully, KNOWING CHRIST, like its “complementary work” – TRUE CHRISTIANITY can help some who lack a sense of worth gain a sense of worth by simply realizing the truth.