An autobiography of Gerald Paul Kooyers. Children, grandchildren and others have at times requested Kooyers to write of his interesting life lived in the United States of America in the golden age of the nation from about 1940 to 2010. He writes of life growing up in Wisconsin and California, education at San Jose State University, University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford University leading to a career in scientific research, self employment, business ventures, computer programming, computer models of devices, electron device research, commodity trading adviser, white water river outfitting, mining and farming.Subjects are ancestry, growing up, college, employment, business ventures, hunting adventures, family fun, making a ton of money in the commodity markets, building a very exquisite dream home, at the time nothing like it in all of Idaho, encountering the criminal banking organization called State Savings, and then American Savings, the lawsuits involved including bankruptcy, and the government seizure of American. He writes of a mine disaster where three men were killed and his belief they were murdered.A Christian life well lived encountering good and evil and the wisdom gained from the experiences. His intent is to pass on the wisdom gained from this living of life on to posterity, He presents the Eigen Theory of Life. By using his scientific skills, his understanding of the Bible so as to let the Bible be its own interpreter, he presents human kind as consisting of an encompassed, composite, four realm manifestation of body, soul, spirit, and heart. He borrows a concept from mathematical quantum physics and presents Jesus Christ as the Eigenfunction of everything, both created and uncreated, so as to present Jesus Christ to be the whole system for the connecting of mankind to God.He lives on the Salmon River of Idaho with his wife Geneva of 58 years. They have six children, 20 grandchildren, and in 2015, 15 great grand children.