An Exploration of the Joys of the Human Condition and the Astounding Secrets of the Universe and the Mind Through the Life of a Loving Couple Engaged in the Ultimate Relationship Across the Centuries and into the Future.
The significance of the golden braid of life, love, and being is unveiled through the consummate enjoyment of existence by Peter and Angelina-across several centuries of spiritual rebirths of a love so strong that it could never die, for, it is the ultimate relationship.
Escaping from a monastery-abbey that engulfed itself in the flames of ignorance, such as the one in the book "The Name of the Rose", they, our ever returning couple, salvage a mysterious book of quatrains that guides them through the joys and follies of the human condition as they live out its words, for the proof of all writing is to live it. So close in thought that they need not even be named at first, our couple takes a picaresque journey through the first part of the book to solve the difficulties of life as they are encountered in their travels through the forested countryside
Subsequently, they evolve from their spirits to meet again a hundred years later, close to our time, to meet the challenges of the modern world, yet, as always, ever immersed in the lushness of life and love. They appear again, futuristically, in an enlightening glimpse, to tell us where the human race may be headed. Next, the mysterious book of quatrains is laid open. The secrets of the mind and the universe are revealed, as well as the lore and legends of nature. A journal details the real life meeting of the two lovers, unpublished, for now.
Every vein in this book is loaded with ore, as Keats recommended to Shelly, and that's how life should be-a constant celebration of all that is good and worthwhile. I leave it to others to instruct via tales of failure and tragedy. Seeing life as lived well is, I think, a more inspiring and memorable learning experience. I always favor the positive approach-I write of universals-those things that endure, the magic of everyday experience, for the afterlife happens right now!
I am indebted to my fianc�, Cynthia, for demonstrating, with me, in our relationship, that imagination and aspiration can indeed lead to realization, to Percy Shelly, for his romantic appreciations and his investigation of all living things, to John Updike, for his intricate observations of the thrills of daily life, to Umberto Ecco and Giovanni Baccaccio, for their monastical inspiration, to Hal Foster, for tales of knighthood, and especially to Omar Khayy�m, for his nowness of existence in the Rubaiyat, and to the muses, for the inspiration to write my own quatrains, not to mention my own dreams of what life could be. You will sense my tributes to all of them. Writings are the summation of all we read, know, live, and dream.
The `Triumph of Life, Love, and Being' cuts across all disciplines, ages, seasons, forms of thought, and the human condition, from the roots of happiness to consciousness itself, from Victoriana to futuristic themes, from winter to spring and through the summer, from virtual reality to meditative oneness, from friendship to romance.
The prose speaks of universals that are involved in everyday life, and the poems from The Book of Quatrains-The New Rubaiyat, Flora Symbolica, and Brain Waves bring astounding illuminations and revelations that open the mind to the mysteries of life, love, and being.
This book is alive and positive, it makes you want to run right out and live. Includes the Book of Quatrains. Some illustrations. Magical and Mystical.
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