The sacred mountain was extremely high and difficult to climb; he climbed and climbed and climbed. He felt he was on a mission, he would discover something. He struggled with change and chance. He stopped many times, ready to turn back. The beauty of the heights revived him and he hoped that knowledge of something was near. He had no idea if it was. He climbed on.

     Near the top of the sacred mountain contentment and wonderment vibrated the strings in his being. "That's weird," he thought. Rounding the giant rock overhang near the summit, stepping onto his sacred mountain top he was surprised at the vision he saw. A burning apple tree!?! He heard a call again, coming from the burning apple tree.

     "Knucklehead!......Knucklehead!!......KNUCKLEHEAD! I have named thy name, I have created thee Knucklehead!"

     He stood, mesmerized. When he found his voice he spoke, "SAY WHAT!! You have created me knucklehead?"

     "Yes, you are created in the image of Knucklehead to honor these commandments: Trust that love is the center of all things. Move toward the center of all things at all times and under all conditions. Do only that which is conducive to the betterment of humanity.

     "Is that it?" asked Knucklehead.

     "Oh yeah, one more thing, but it's not really a commandment, just a good idea," came the reply, "Feed the people to help them feel better."

     Knucklehead asked the obvious question, "Where are you calling from? There is no cell phone service up here."

     "Are you crazy," was the retort, "This is the spirit calling, a voice in the wilderness. I don't need any cell phone signal; I am tapped into the Infinite Essence for God's sake."

     "Oh," said Knucklehead. "Well then," he announced "you can help me fulfill the commandments."

     "Sure. The answer is in the burning apple tree. Now, go and let it be seen what your search and endeavors will achieve," was the response.

     Knucklehead was confused, "What do you mean? I answered the call, I found the sacred mountain, I climbed up it, and I saw the vision of the burning apple tree. Now you are telling me I haven't even started."

     Silence.

     "That blows," said Knucklehead.

     He stumbled, dumbfounded, down the mountainside, confused by what he had just experienced. Knucklehead began talking to himself, "I was created Knucklehead, and I have to find the center, and feed the people, and help them feel better, and the answer is in the burning apple tree?"

     This whole trip was about missing something. He had searched for something. Something wasn't clear. Something was making him dizzy. He wanted to understand something. He wanted to pass out. As he fainted he reached the nearside of somewhere and something came to him. It was a flash of insight and a crash to the ground. He was at rest and in motion. "Complete and unconditional love - wow, how stupid is that? God is a knucklehead!" said Knucklehead.

     There are stories of other knuckleheads, too. The biggest knuckleheads in history get royal treatment now. They don't object only because their dead. So these knuckleheads believe love is the center of all things. These knuckleheads will do everything in their power to move closer to the center of all things. These knuckleheads will strive to do only what is conducive to the betterment of humanity. Why is God a knucklehead?

     That's right! Be fair-minded when you look around this speck spinning in the vast universe and give an honest answer that clears away the noise of THE WORLD. The sincere answer tears down veils of imitation. This question is the light illuminating the step of search.  It mystifies everyone who takes time to investigate. The truth of it! Crazy? Fantastic? Beyond belief? An insurmountable summit glimpsed in the mist and never ascended? Plain as the nose on your face? Who can know without looking? Who can search without light? In the dim dungeon of our attachments, wrapped in mental chains with only a question for guidance Knucklehead's trek begins; deep inside the noise, far from the center. Why is God such a knucklehead?

     You can understand where Knucklehead is coming from. This is the way it is for everyone, it can't be helped. We are so attached to our idea of truth exploring the perfection of truth independent from all things is crazily painful torture. Nobody volunteers for such treatment when ‘everyone else' is sick. We fail to understand ‘made up' world noise depends on people uniting in mentally oppressive cycles we refuse responsibility for, like economic and political warfare. The community of being continues refusing accountability for consequences of this failure of personal accountability and the fear of loss motivating it. Humanity faces a nexus of global crises compel ling evolution of our human nature past thoughtless imitation of tradition and judgmental guesses and prejudices about others.  That old paradigm is a tragic state of separation, the essence of a broken heart, and the source of all our troubles. The stubbornness in these times is a result of perversity in former ages but will it be our history or a legacy we post-modern generations live through and leave behind? Why is God a knucklehead?

     We would be wise to respect how difficult it is for Knucklehead's to awaken this paradigm shift in thinking for themselves by themselves without mentors. This genuine passion for reunion evolves through language; the embodiment of the eternal moment of truth when eternity infuses imagination with infinite possibilities instantly massing and inflating the singularity into the matrix of choice and consequence. In that moment the circle of this perfection surrounds the whole universe and truth emerges by degrees from the noise of the expanding universe as transformative authority and healing power. The deeper we see into space the closer we look into our own reflection. Hubble's Law proves we change the way we see ourselves in the cosmos, but not the way we are in it.

     Humanity will fuse their pure intentions with the present moment to honor love as the center of all things and be conducive to all the relations wellbeing; becoming the whole truth. Simple enough to be honest; but most deception of our selves and others is just laziness. This quest to change your mind is for heroes and heroines, martyrs and saints. The heat generated by the active force motivating this struggle will make the light burn brighter.  Their sincerity has mass and interaction will accelerate them toward the center of all things. Why is God a knucklehead?

     Love is so beautiful we sob for joy and relief; it is so devastating it sucks the marrow from our will to live. It is insanity and our hearts are set on it; our brains hardwired for connecting with it. Everyone wants it. Love is jealous, love is kind, and love is wrath. Love is vengeance, love is patience, and love is a weight. Love is the spiritual reality of gravity. Gravity is the physical manifestation of love. Love, like gravity, is perfect balance on the straight path to the center of all things. No one can live for long with a broken heart. Why is God a knucklehead?

     The Stone People is a love story with passion, mystery, romance, intrigue, treachery, and triumph for one reason only - it is real. Such an adventure has never been seen by the hearts of recent generations.

     Step onto the wheel.