SuicideDictionary
"A Contemporary Upanishads" by Paul Lonely
In 1453 ce an island was discovered in the North Atlantic called Ambrojjio
and donated to the Catholic Church. Pope Nicholas V (the first humanist
Pope) used the land to erect a secret monastery for an artist colony of monk-
poets he employed to formulate what he called a "prophetic" or "inspired"
document to be published in the year 2050. This artist colony (now called the
Order of Quantum Catholics) has survived to the present day and still
employs monk-poets who remain hard at work on this document, now titled
Quantum Psalter.
Here is the first volume describing their heroic work. Maybe you have read
the Upanishads, a few Buddhist sutras, or possibly even Rumi or Blake. But
those describe the spiritual experience of yesterday. Suicide Dictionary is the
poetic expression of spirituality in our time. We now live in an age where to
be Integral is to be on the leading edge of human consciousness. Suicide
Dictionary is the product of applying these higher levels of consciousness to
the art of creative writing. It offers a "Contemporary Upanishads" that
captures the beauty of both western intellectuality and eastern (or mystical)
spirituality in a single literary framework.
FROM THE AUTHOR:
This book is the first volume of what I intend to be a life-long work. It is
both literary and spiritual in nature. Like Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Suicide
Dictionary will advance piecemeal as I continue with my goal of offering a
“Contemporary Upanishads” that capture the beauty of both western
intellectuality and eastern (or mystical) spirituality in a single literary
framework. The closeness of my integral vision with the work of Ken Wilber
will be obvious to the initiated. I have applied Mr. Wilber’s Integral Theory to
the making of Suicide Dictionary and now consider it’s poetic expression an
announcement of the emergence of an Integral Poetics, a sub-section of
Integral Art. Although I am as yet employing poetic forms of the past, the
ideas erupting from the symbols I offer are products of consciously operating
from (at least) an “integral” or “second tier” level of awareness.
When I was an undergraduate science major at a small college in central
Kentucky there was a poster hanging in one of my classrooms which read,
“What isn’t Chemistry?”. I remember instantly identifying the reductionistic
nature of the phrase and thinking at the time, “What isn’t Mind?”. It’s now
been six years since I sat in that classroom. The road I’ve taken is embedded
in each word of thisbook. As I sit here today staring into the depths of what
IS, I can only hope that one day this phrase will be added to that poster:
“What isn’t Spirituality?”.
and donated to the Catholic Church. Pope Nicholas V (the first humanist
Pope) used the land to erect a secret monastery for an artist colony of monk-
poets he employed to formulate what he called a "prophetic" or "inspired"
document to be published in the year 2050. This artist colony (now called the
Order of Quantum Catholics) has survived to the present day and still
employs monk-poets who remain hard at work on this document, now titled
Quantum Psalter.
Here is the first volume describing their heroic work. Maybe you have read
the Upanishads, a few Buddhist sutras, or possibly even Rumi or Blake. But
those describe the spiritual experience of yesterday. Suicide Dictionary is the
poetic expression of spirituality in our time. We now live in an age where to
be Integral is to be on the leading edge of human consciousness. Suicide
Dictionary is the product of applying these higher levels of consciousness to
the art of creative writing. It offers a "Contemporary Upanishads" that
captures the beauty of both western intellectuality and eastern (or mystical)
spirituality in a single literary framework.
FROM THE AUTHOR:
This book is the first volume of what I intend to be a life-long work. It is
both literary and spiritual in nature. Like Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Suicide
Dictionary will advance piecemeal as I continue with my goal of offering a
“Contemporary Upanishads” that capture the beauty of both western
intellectuality and eastern (or mystical) spirituality in a single literary
framework. The closeness of my integral vision with the work of Ken Wilber
will be obvious to the initiated. I have applied Mr. Wilber’s Integral Theory to
the making of Suicide Dictionary and now consider it’s poetic expression an
announcement of the emergence of an Integral Poetics, a sub-section of
Integral Art. Although I am as yet employing poetic forms of the past, the
ideas erupting from the symbols I offer are products of consciously operating
from (at least) an “integral” or “second tier” level of awareness.
When I was an undergraduate science major at a small college in central
Kentucky there was a poster hanging in one of my classrooms which read,
“What isn’t Chemistry?”. I remember instantly identifying the reductionistic
nature of the phrase and thinking at the time, “What isn’t Mind?”. It’s now
been six years since I sat in that classroom. The road I’ve taken is embedded
in each word of thisbook. As I sit here today staring into the depths of what
IS, I can only hope that one day this phrase will be added to that poster:
“What isn’t Spirituality?”.
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