Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 2:33 AM

To: cnc@strategic.org

Subject: Re: Finaly! (I hope!)

Dear Chin-Ning Chu,

Thank you so much for writing Thick Face Black Heart. I enjoyed it tremendously. I am a clergyman. Have been in the Christian Ministry for 25 years. 15 years as a Pastor of a local congregation and 10 as a conference speaker for Churches, Business and educational organisations. I started off as a pastor and have ended up as a motivational speaker and writer.

Writing is really the love of my life. I also enjoy conducting teaching and training seminars. Sharing truth makes me come alive as nothing else does. I still pastor a church. I love reading and have read hundreds of books.

5 years ago I went through a very traumatic personal experience. Somehow, in times of stress or extreme difficulty I always find refuge in writing and reading. I had not noticed this pattern until after this particular time I refer to. As I went through this time, taking time to read write and meditate, it came to me as a flash of insight that ALL TRUTH IS PARALLEL.

In order for truth to be truth, it must be amoral, apolitical, recognising no religious, racial or national boundaries I had always seen truth as as exclusively "CHRISTIAN". Real truth is eternal and unchanging. It applies equally to all men everywhere. It cannot be modified or compromised. Opinions can be ignored, suggestions can be ignored, and no ill will result. Truth however cannot be ignored without consequences. In the Moral and physical universe truth is law.

This understanding brought a radical transformation in my whole outlook of life. My view of life expanded. Secular and sacred merged. For me there was no longer any dividing line. My difficulty lay in the fact that none of my friends saw things in this light.

Anyway. I do not want to be too tedious to you. You probably receive tons of mail! Your Book is so far the highlight of my year. I hope against hope that you still maintain the same email address given in the book. I greatly desire to correspond with you. Your book affected me so profoundly I found myself in tears as I devoured page after page. I felt a strange kinship with you.

As I came to the end of the book, a poem burst forth from the depths of my soul to you. I wrote it on the inside of the back cover. If we never meet physicaly, it will not greatly matter. We have already met and in some strange mysteriouse way, discoursed intimately.

I leave you with the last part of my poem. you are mine, I am yours. I know it is so. You ARE, that I may BE. Something deffinate, something real, intangible yet true substance entered my life from your heart through your book, and imparted life to me, exploding my life into a whole new dimension of almost ilimitable possibilities.

I salute you great warior! may you live a thousand lives and many more!!

Alfred.