Publisher's Synopsis
Theme: A liaison of quixotic prose and imagery portraying and personifying the Higher Self and Nature's eternal moment in transient temporality.
Synopsis: A compact compendium of prose and imagery takes the reader to another dimension of a captivating awareness with this underlying theme: What we observe also observes us! Thus, a transformational subjective experience where the viewer melds with objective reality--the seen and unseen--thereby representing the temporal and eternal. Moreover, the overall composition conveys a transfiguring experience of the revered presence of the Higher Self. Describing a round-the-clock of time outing that begins in the early morning, the text's literary footslog to a lofty aerie overlooks a lucid landscape of changing color, lighting, and shadows whose expressive tableau throughout the day slowly evolves, yet seemingly a timeless experience for the mute observer-turned-witness to Nature's constantly changing munificence, moment by moment, and second by second. Eventually, the meditative watch from the aerie fades, then begins a phase of darkness. Backlit by a twinkling and a mesmerizing cosmos, after the long night's watch is over daylight returns. Consequently, the observer hikes down from the high aerie and returns home.
Given all of Nature's manifestations, the purpose of the twenty-four-hour sojourn is predicated on reflection and reverence for the pageantry of the life process. Thus, a transformational and subjective experience where, again, the witness melds with objective reality, both the seen and unseen, as well as the temporal and eternal. As for the meditative lyrics of this treatise, notably, the seven lines of each verse personify a conscious report while the ensuing three lines denote a subconscious report. A sample verse follows:
A solitary hawk flies into the ethereal vault,pivots on lithe wings, drawing lazy circles.
Ascending ever higher into the azure dome,
indistinguishable, like a small ebony dot,
the raptor resembles a silent spirit departing.
Then vanishes and reappears, again and again,
performing a graceful ballet to unheard music.
It teases one to peer into that tunneling dimension
where birds, like clouds, float along like cotton,
one using effortless wing, the other effortless wind.
Sufficing as a discourse of eco-cosmology, the concept of this manuscript's thesis traces its origins to the import of a so-called au natural philosophy. Specifically, that other revered trinity based upon Nature, the (Higher) Self, and the Cosmos whose combined identities emanate from One Mind, yet each facet denotes different manifestations from the same source. Presented in four separate discussions (referred to as the "gateways"), each graphic verse depicts the trinity of realms as a synthesis of a single identity and source as viewed by the seer. The theme, therefore, suggests a Pantheistic philosophy, both Vedic and Western in origin, including some of the recurrent and topical ideas found in the more abstruse teachings of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism. As a literary discourse of vivid prose, the stanzas convey and encompass the micro within the macro view. Like a camera's lens, the reader becomes the errant eye that sees and becomes that which is seen. Accordingly, the transformation of synthesis is achieved, if only for a little while.
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