This book is titled Unified Reality Theory because within it a model of reality is presented that describes reality as being the manifestation of a single or unitary existence. This book is subtitled The Evolution of Existence into Experience because the unified model of reality contained herein is developed by describing how that unitary existence evolves in stepwise fashion from a singular state of undifferentiated consciousness into a differentiated state that is our awareness of experiential reality.
Constructing a cohesive model of reality is to some degree analogous to putting together a picture puzzle. The first thing one generally does when assembling a puzzle is to get all the pieces out of the box and laid on the table. One then orients all the pieces face up, so the bits of images can be used to help connect the pieces. Next one assembles the outer rim of the puzzle so as to define the boundaries and provide context for the inner construction. One can then build from the rim inward, or some inner portions may come together easily as their connecting pattern is very distinct. Ultimately, from many directions the overall picture comes together and the individual pieces form an interconnected whole.

     The sequence of events in ordering a puzzle may vary from person to person, yet there remain absolutes which must exist if one is to eventually come to the point where one has completed the puzzle. In order to complete the puzzle, one must first accept that the disconnected pieces in the box represent different somethings which have the potential to come together as a whole. This potential is recognized because it is understood that at one time the pieces existed as a whole that was somehow cut up, thereby creating the now separate pieces. Recognizing that the pieces existed previously in a state of unity allows one to feel comfortable that the effort of reordering the pieces will eventually result in their reassembly into an interconnected whole.
Likewise, if we are to undertake the task of assembling a unified model of reality we must begin with an assumption and acceptance that the pieces of reality we have to work with did at one time, in some way, exist in a state of wholeness. Unless there is this assumption at the outset that what we experience as the apparently separate pieces of reality have the potential to come together into a unified whole, there is really no point in taking the pieces out of the box.
The underlying process by which existence will be described to have evolved into what we experience as the seemingly separate pieces of reality is quite simple. That process involves existence existing in relation to itself repeatedly and progressively, analogous in a very limited way to breaking a stick in half, then breaking the halves in half and so on, and eventually leaning the pieces against each other so that they support each other in forming a structural reality.
This process of evolution will be described as occurring through four basic stages or sets of self-relation, as outlined in figure I.

     As can be seen in the animation, each level of reality, once it is created, becomes the foundation of the next relationship existence is able to form with itself. At the height of this progression, existence forms a relationship through which it becomes aware of itself in the form of experience. Once existence is aware , the levels of reality through which it evolved become the basis of what it experiences as matter, energy, and space-time. However, once existence becomes aware of reality in the form of experience, both the self-relating structure of reality and its ultimate nature as Absolute Existence become obscured.