A schoolyard bully named Atf seemed large and powerful. Towering over third-grader Zon near the top steps to the second-floor school entrance, Atf grabbed Zon’s throat with one hand and, with his other hand, cocked a vibrating fist, ready to strike. While not knowing Archimedes’ laws of leverage, those silent laws of nature spoke to Zon. In a lightning instant, child Zon stepped on the bully’s toe and flicked him away. Down the flight of stairs tumbled Atf. He never bothered Zon or anyone else at that school again. …Child Zon became a silent victor in one swift move of nature that protected him and others for the rest of his school days.

In the third grade, after winning all the king-marble shooters in the schoolyard, Zon learned how to gain sex, money, and power in this anticivilization. Gain sex, money, and power in the third grade? Yes, indeed, Zon controlled the dynamics of sex, money, and power so confidently, so effortlessly through his Quintessential Secret that he could put each such activity aside for the next eight years. For, he had too much to learn about living in this world without surrendering to its anticivilization — without being detected — without being waylaid by pretty girls, gaining money, or mystic-promoting teachers, parents, and peers. Yet, from that point on, he had the power on the deepest level to outcompete everyone in Earth’s anticivilization for sex, money, and power.

Where did Zon get that power? Was it a cosmic power emanating from beyond? Was it mind over matter? No, the opposite was the fact. His power came from the here-and-now laws of nature combined with hard work, honesty, logic, and reason.