July 5, 2024

The Universal Safety System:
The ‘e’-manuel of the csS, JSS, (_)SS
The philosophy of Operating a J-Saw
Chuck “OZ” Oslund
ISBN: 979-8328412575

New Philosophical Book Offers a Safe World for All

The Universal Safety System by Chuck “OZ” Oslund is a book like you’ve never read before. The author is a chainsaw safety instructor who previously published The Chainsaw Safety System. Many readers bought that book to learn chainsaw safety, but they were also surprised by how philosophical the book was. OZ loves to be philosophical because he believes the rules of chainsaw safety can be applied to various other situations in our lives. In The Universal Safety System, he applies chainsaw safety to our lives in general with surprising and reassuring results.

The Universal Safety System may not be an easy book to read, but the more effort you put into understanding it, the more you will benefit from it. OZ plays on a lot of biblical language in the book because he feels he was divinely inspired to write it. The subtitle itself contains a play on words. It is an “‘e’-manuel,’” a play on both “manual” and “Emmanuel,” a name for Christ. Rather than use the name Jesus, he prefers Jay, although he also uses acronyms like SOM and JON for Son of Mankind and Jesus of Nazareth. The book is filled with similar wordplay and what at first might even look like typos. Often what looks like a wrong word is intentionally the right one to create an extra layer of meaning. Truly, I wouldn’t be surprised if OZ was channeling James Joyce along with more traditional divine beings.

Feeling the book was inspired by something greater than himself, OZ found himself writing what look like mathematical equations. He found himself using punctuation in non-standard ways, putting periods, commas, semicolons, and apostrophes in places they may not normally go. He cannot explain why the text is written this way in all cases, just that it is meant to be that way. Indeed, at one point, he tells the reader that if they understand a sentence he just wrote, then they are smarter than he is.

Readers may initially find the text a bit intimidating, but the more you read, the more it becomes transparent. Wordplay aside, there is a deep message here, and it is a very spiritual book in many ways. One of my favorite statements in the book was, “‘I’ realize that every day is resurrection day except the day I die.” In other words, every day we have an opportunity to learn and grow more and to start anew. This “‘e’-manuel” can be a guide to such growth. It’s a guide to helping ourselves and also to helping others. In OZ’s chainsaw safety classes, he teaches that chainsaws can be dangerous, so no one should ever operate one alone. At the same time, the operator must make sure everyone in the cutting area is also safe. It’s about looking out for others, about loving others, about taking the wisdom you have learned and that has improved your life and using it to teach others so they can also improve their lives.

A small statement of OZ’s purpose, which will also help to illuminate his writing style, will allow the reader a better idea of what to expect in The Universal Safety System. Early in the book, OZ states:

“What I am about to put down in writing is not crazy! It may sound weird to a deaf ‘third’ ear, but only when the words are read out loud by a voice inside one’s head—what the system calls the ‘Voice of Reason.’ (Take note of the capital ‘V’ and capital ‘R’.) What I type with these old fingers is not entirely my composition as much as it’s ‘our’ contribution, like a constitutional agreement: my (j) and your (I). Trust me on this; as my finger-tips knock on this key-board door, I will only tell you what I see as truth; my intention in this literary endeavor is to be a voluntary conduit of factual statistics (GR + saacrum) about random data (QM + psacram) inside reality and the people in it; to demonstrate to the beginners a tested method for dealing with stress-provoking situations and still remain confident of a positive outcome, something to lift you up from the depths of depression and perhaps even make you smile as you walk through the mall; your success is already done in what we in the System like to call a ‘picture’ of the ‘future’ in a single frequency that started with a bang and will end in a flash being sucked into a very mini-size-up of the balance of ‘ous’ and ‘ence’ like two exclamations out of one excitement!!”

Note the wordplay here such as his finger-tips knocking on the key-board door. Later in the book, OZ analyzes an illustration of Christ knocking at the door. OZ is knocking at the door with this book; he is hoping the reader will answer and receive the gifts he offers that they may not even realize they have been asking for, but they will be better for having received them. That’s rather like what “Jay” offers.

Why did OZ choose to call Jesus “Jay”? He explains:

“the stump has at least two PSA’s that scrutinize the product for truth content like a private prayer at night when I use the name ‘Jesus’ and ‘Father’ with authority in the ‘C’; I don’t throw the power in the name around during my work day; it’s like ignoring safety rules, so I decided on an anthropomorphic name for the saw; I chose ‘Jay’; I let my students use this ‘code’ name, or pick a nick-name on their own (try to pick one that has the letter ‘j’ in it, preferably in the 1st position);”

If that confuses you, it’s okay. Just keep reading and the meaning will be clear. A handy guide to acronyms like PSA are also included in the front of the book for easy reference. OZ gives us some guidance on how to make our reading experience clear by stating:

“The quantum (Q) nature of ALL Things is life showing the way to the truth; read these words very slowly, one letter and each punctuation mark carefully noted, and the meaning in their parables clearly understood or not understood at all, before reading on to the next one: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through ME.” ‘IT’ Is understood by the ‘A’ to ‘sAy’ that JON is the wisdom source, Jay the writer, and Jack is the old ‘UPper’ trying to have fun with the JOE force in ‘me.’”

Many other examples could be quoted, but I think that gives you an idea of the kind of tome you are about to be fortunate enough to tackle when you read this unique book. There is also plenty of mathematical equations in it. OZ calls these math algorithms or “allegory-ithms.” In other words, the algorithms are part of the allegory. If the book is written partly in a parable or allegorical style, it’s no different than what Jay used to teach. Perhaps the seed may fall on deaf ears, but if your ears (or eyes as you read) are open, you will begin to understand. OZ warns that us:

“The understanding can only be gained when the wisdom enters the picture smiling, and the student is able to solve the riddle of how to transfigure all of ‘us’ into a ‘savior’ of all man-kind while working with one or two people at one time in the same place with the same ‘power-tool’ they all just received for ‘X’-mass.”

This ‘X’-mass or any other special occasion, give yourself the gift of the ‘power-tool’ known as The Universal Safety System. It’s an ‘e’-manuel that will serve you for life.

For more information about Chuck “OZ” Oslund and The Universal Safety System, visit www.Amazon.com.

— Tyler R. Tichelaar, PhD and award-winning author of Odin’s Eye: A Marquette Time Travel Novel