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After the hoopla, and the brouhaha, many have asked me to write this all down.

People deserve an explanation, they say.

It’s true and I agree.

So I’m going to be completely honest here.

I’m going to wash myself and come clean.

It’s time to set the record straight about where I’m from, exactly, and how the music found me. That part is pretty tame. Nothing too shocking or controversial there. The gossip, the conspiracy, the accusations and lies can end because here it all is, laid down: the essence of U2opian philosophy. Here it is: the purpose and intention of TEMPLE™.

Here it is!

Words, transcribed.

Here’s how a great TEMPLE™ grew so big from something so simple – an idea –that started off so small. People have been wondering, they’ve been curious. They’ve wanted to know how our message traveled the globe, capturing the hearts (and minds) of all the masses, and how we picked away at the pus encrusted scab of intercultural holy war. “Holy” war. Good god, what a joke that is. But here it all is. Here it all is. In these pages I will share all I believe to be true about U2 and Bono. And I’ll share what I really think of all the Bono Haters out there. I’ll remember the tragedy of URBAN TEMPLE™ Eastside. And the tragedy that continues each and every day, when the children of that distant village, the innocent babies, suffer and die, in agony, all too real and true. They die for lack of food, clean water and medicine. I’ll remember them. I’ll remember their pain. I’ll ask lots of questions, about myself and the world around me. In these pages I will lay it all down. I will reveal all the detail that I can recall of my spirit vision while out lost, wandering, in the dry and inhospitable desert. For the first time ever I will describe the vision’s final verse. And I’ll briefly explain what happened in France. I’ll tell you what possessed me and why. I will rant and rave on many subjects. We’ll go on a journey in these pages. It is my hope that this collection of words, this manifesto of a long awaited tell all, can answer all the questions you may have about me, Bono, U2, the universe and life in general.

Let this be a testament, for people around the world and throughout the ages interested in the mystical experience, to study and learn from. I don’t think that humanity should, but in the event that we adopt yet another book as a sacred religious text, let these words be it or serve as an inspiration to it’s writing.

Three chords and the truth!

This is the story of the one true Rock n’ Roll religion.