Dear Webmistress or Webmaster, Researcher or Inquirer, Friend or would be Foe,

"I agree with Matthew Arnold. It is my view that the high culture of our civilization contains knowledge which is far more significant than anything that can be absorbed from the channels of popular communication. This is a hard belief to justify, and a harder one to live with; indeed, it has nothing to recommend it apart from its truth."

I hope we can develop a creative and friendly relationship.

If I have not already informed you that at least one of my websites has quoted you or contains a link to at least one of your own webpages, I ask you kindly to understand that it is not easy for an unpaid voluntary worker maintaining and developing several extra-commercial, non-profit-making and yet boldly innovative and authentically Traditional websites, fully to adapt to every other individual's sensitivities and priority concerns.

Each one of us is intimately and utterly unique, so that while I may imagine I am already eager to walk this Earth with you I+N Love, for that very reason I would tell a lie if I pretended that I could ever be so privileged as to be in love with you.

I truly love myself, I believe, and am also doing my best to like myself - even though that is not always entirely easy.

"Our educational institutions are no longer the bearers of high culture and public life has been deliberately moronised." If you require an illustration of this, just read both Glenn Bedingfield's Witness (ISBN 99932-17-00-X) and Edward J. Clemmer's Alfred Sant explained (ISBN 99909-41-92-0).

Yet, "here and there, sheltered from the noise and glare of the media, the old spiritual forces are at work. Popular culture contains pockets of gentleness and melody. Architects, writers and composers produce works which are neither kitsch nor 'kitsch'. Prayer and penitence have been interrupted, but not forgotten... Love is not the answer, but the question, the thing which sets us searching for meaning."

Naturally, I am more than convinced that my websites are already "the best on the Net", and yet I am not surprised that, so far, not even 100,000 clicks have been recorded by our site-visitors' counter, relatively few search-engines have noticed us, and we are listed in only a small number of website directories.

If you are able and willing to do anything to improve this situation without financial cost to me (a Senior Citizen without savings worth the mention), I shall be grateful. For instance, one or more links from one or more of your pages to one or more of my websites will be, I feel, a service you are rendering not just to me, but to all planetary citizens with Internet access.

I've tried to structure these sites creatively and well, providing a sufficiency of images, background music (so turn on your speakers) and hyperlinks within and between pages and to, I think, more than 1000 other selected sites (already including yours?).

Help at finding key internal-links other than buttons, is available on page "help.htm".

Containing as they do the equivalent of perhaps 20 full-length books and a select reading-list of almost 3,500 individual items, with 300 titles highlighted initially, introduced by 33 carefully arranged select passages, this suite of websites is already a well established Temple I+N Truth. Praised be JesusI+NMary & thanks be to G-d!

The quotations on this page are from Roger Scruton's An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture (ISBN 0-7156-2870-4), a recent and most welcome addition to our common wealth.

How can one classify everything and more?

If a page mentions "carrots", "potatoes", "onions", "thorn-apple", "fennel" and "grass", logically "plant" as a "keyword" in my "metatags" is appropriate - but can a search-engine adjust itself to any approach other than that of its programmer.... Fascinating questions arise, but I've given priority on this website to others, because I feel they are more important and also more urgent.

If I'm wrong, please do correct me. If I'me right (write, rite, wright, writhe) in feeling that Planet Earth needs all the help it can get from sites like this in Cyberspace, please help.

I look forward to hearing from you and/or seeing you - virtually at least.

Shalom and Blessed Be!

Colin (Shivananda)

New Moon in Gemini, 03:46 GMT, 23 May 20001