Paul Lonely is an American post post-modern visionary
poet, mystic, artist and philosopher born in 1978 and raised
in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. His early writings were
both critiqued and praised by his mentor, the much esteemed
writer and intellectual, Guy Davenport. The two sustained a
four-year friendship until Davenport’s death in 2005.
SuicideDictionary
"A Contemporary Upanishads" by Paul Lonely
It was then that Paul, once again, secluded himself in the Kentucky countryside
feverishly inhaling the works of renowned philosophers, theologians, poets, and
spiritual masters of all traditions while simultaneously engaging in his own self-styled
transformative practice highly influenced by Zen Buddhism. His initial kensho
experience became the creative pulse and inspiration he needed to begin writing his
first published creation, a contemporary Upanishads titled Suicide Dictionary. The
book was released in November 2007. Paul is now affiliated with Ken Wilber's
think-tank, Integral Institute. He is currently writing volume two of Suicide
Dictionary while residing in Los Angeles, California