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Contact: Dave Atkinson
Organization: Existentia Institute
Email: press@existentiainstitute.org

Utah Author and Institute Founder Publishes Debut Book on the Nature of God and Human Identity

I AM — Volume One of the Existentia Series — Now Available

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Utah author and founder Dave Atkinson announces the release of I AM — a landmark work that bridges personal spiritual encounter, theology, and cosmological science in a framework fifteen years in the making.

The book is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and major retailers. I AM is the first volume of the Existentia Series — a multi-book project that moves from the personal and experiential to a formal unified theory of existence.

At its heart, the book answers the question human beings have asked across every culture and century: Who am I, and why am I here? — and equips readers to recognize the darkness that perpetually seeks to undermine and destroy that identity.

"This is not a book I knew I would be writing," says Atkinson. "What happened instead is that it arrived — a little at a time." The 22-chapter work — organized into three parts titled Source, Self, and Choice — is grounded in fifteen years of direct, personal experiences with God, carefully examined and documented as they unfolded. Advance readers spanning multiple faith backgrounds have described the material as accessible to those with deep doctrinal commitments and also to those approaching these questions for the first time.

I AM includes a complete defense addendum, In Defense of the Framework: Four Dialogues, engaging the book's most challenging theological and scientific claims.

The book is the founding publication of the Existentia Institute (existentiainstitute.org), which Atkinson established to house the Existentia Series and ongoing study at the intersection of theology and cosmological science.

"What I have experienced of God and the universe we live in is not theory — it is firsthand and personal," Atkinson says. "I have lived in the presence of something so real and so far beyond what I had been told to expect that it reorganized everything I thought I knew. This book and the institute are my best attempt to share what I was shown — that God is not an abstraction, that every individual has purpose and value, is deeply loved by God, and that the framework holding all of it together is more coherent and more beautiful than any of us have been given permission to believe."

Publication Details:

• Title: I AM (Existentia Series, Volume One)

• Author: Dave Atkinson

• Publisher: Existentia Institute / IngramSpark

• Format: Trade paperback, ebook; audiobook forthcoming

• Pages: 342

• Available: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and major retailers

Media inquiries, interview requests, and review copy requests may be directed to Dave Atkinson at dave@existentiainstitute.org

Preview the book on Amazon: https://read.amazon.com/sample/B0HKLFTD9C?clientId=share

The Existentia Institute is an organization dedicated to the development of a unified theological-cosmological framework and its educational application.

Founded in Salt Lake City, Utah.