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Announcement -
From today the 19th
July 2008 to the end of October 2008 I will need to be
away from my regular active participation on my website, and on MySpace
in order to devote myself fulltime to the completion of my next book.
See MySpace blog: ◊ From today the 19th July 2008 ◊ for
more …
Arbor
Philosophica
Independent
bona fides; a cache of self-published antiquities in the making
SIX -
Newly Published BOOKS
Myriam of
Lebanon
(Hardback: 111 pages. ISBN:
978-1-84753-673-0)
Description:
I have
often asked myself how might the
myriad contemporary becloudments of the mind, and as a consequence
their frustration of the body be transcended once and for all? WhereI
have asked dwells in beauty a paraclete?
To such
questions and the like, I have
pondered with an idea that I have had for some time, namely that most
likely a joyous, bright, contemplative of heart, non-denominational
woman’s word would be more effective, and even more warmly
received by peoples of the world than say a man’s,
especially, if she were perceived by them to be in every way
exceedingly beautiful, and equally as important, if she were in
melliferous voice and rhyme to talk ‘with’ them
rather than ‘at’ them.
Myriam
of Lebanon
presents a
philosopher-poetess called Myriam
from the Phoenician port city of Byblos
of the land of Lebanon who visits the isle of Éire
and while there shares of her profound wisdom.
This
work is a bright beacon of hope and strength for our
times and beyond; a beautiful and endearing work born of the green
fields of Éire and the snow-capped mountains of Lebanon.
A lyrical philosophy of
ambiance steadfastly established
on Gibran
Khalil Gibran Ben Mikha'il Ben Saâd's
The
Prophet.
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and purchase.
A
Jesus of Nazareth
(Hardback: 316
pages. ISBN:
978-1-84799-030-3)
Description:
This
genre-breaking work
readily encourages and lends
itself to comparison and contrast with the Holy
Bible,
the Holy
Qur’an,
and the Holy
Tanakh
as well as with the principal philosophical Taoist texts, namely the
Tao
Te Ching and
The
Chuang-Tzu.
A
Jesus of Nazareth
closes the book for me on Jesus content
in my writings.
This
essentially contemplative work,
written as it is to be interpreted both exoterically and esoterically,
is an attempt to restore to the bright - the light, the memory, and the
power of insight, dream, and intuition.
A
necessary
caveat respectfully to the reader: neither
the Jesus of the Gospels nor the Isa (Arabic for Jesus) of the
Qur’an exists here within no more; no more too the
Jesus of such works as Kempis’ The
Imitation
of Christ,
Loyola’s Spiritual
Exercises or Brown's The
Da
Vinci Code.
Rather what
exists here within is a Jesus
of my own inspiration, and, who to my own heart is
eminently credible, enjoyable, and profound.
The work
traverses the lands we in modern times would refer to as the Arabian
Peninsula, Egypt,
Iraq,
Israel,
Jordan,
Lebanon,
Palestine,
and Syria.
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COVER
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and purchase.
Generations Reaching
(Hardback: 503
pages. ISBN:
978-1-84799-110-2)
Description:
Reflections on
a sampling of life’s eternal concerns.
Like
all my writings, Generations
Reaching
is being presented as a time barque for the generations of our
future,
thence enabling them to know, and to come to appreciate the
reflections
and
aspirations that one of their ancestors had, with respect to a sampling
of
life’s eternal concerns while happily living simply and
plainly with his wife
and two children in a 21stcentury
of his era;
Happily
living
simply and plainly in a beautiful border village that the people of his
day
called Tallow,
on the lovely isle they called Éire,
of the
fragile planet they called Earth,
of the solar
system he called Garden,
of the spiral galaxy they called Milky Way,
of the
thirty galaxies or
more they called Local Group,
of the beyond and
beyond which he called Horizon,
and of the that which they called Great
Universe.
Generations
of the future in their
readings and reflections on this work will be with the delight of
knowing that all
those decades, hundreds, and thousands and more of years ago, one of
their ancestors was
already with bringing them and their time to his mind.
Contemporary readers of
today's world are cordially invited as honoured guests on
board the
exquisite Time
Barque of
the Eternal Ocean for
its precious cargo to bethink for
themselves, and to bless before it sets sail from out of the bay of our
own day.
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on COVER
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Hearing
in the Write
(Hardback: 499
pages. ISBN:
978-1-84799-293-2)
Description:
A purely philosophical-poetic work, Hearing
in the Write
shows a marvellous fluidity and rapidity of
thought.
While it neither advocates nor adheres to any philosophy per se; a
philosophy in the sense of being a time-honoured discipline hauling and
dragging after itself otiose luggage of correct principles of
reasoning, it definitely does concern itself in its own lyrical way
with profound questions on what exists, what are some of the essential
natures of things, how we live our lives, what
‘knowledges’ are thought to be, and above all it
concerns itself with safeguarding the spontaneity of speculation.
This delightfully exhilarating work has healing qualities about
it in
that through means of its powerfully nebulous thought engagements it
encourages the mind back out into the heartland of wondrously
uninhibited speculations.
The work presents diversion and digression in thought and expression as
essential
ingredients for the good of our intellectual health.
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and purchase.
Innkeeper's Fire
(Hardback:
Vol. One
493 pages. ISBN:
978-1-84799-551-3)
(Hardback: Vol. Two
605 pages. ISBN:
978-1-84799-552-0)
Description:
Innkeeper’s
Fire is a keeper; a fascinating
piece of literary art.
It has been said
of the celebrated Russian soprano Anna
Netrebko that even if she were
to learn many more new parts, the role of Natasha Rostov in War and
Peace will remain one of the chief roles in her life.
The same could
very well be said of myself, in that
even if I were to write many more new books, the role of Rísteárd
Mac
Grailt in this work will remain one of the chief
male
character roles
in my life.
That’s because this
type of calm, wise,
bright,
joyous, courteous, warm voiced, nuptial hermit and family man; this
rural philosopher-poet of Éire who tells mythic stories and
engages in
homely conversations perfectly fits my imaginative,
writing, and poetic possibilities.
There is the quiet man and
his lady
of the valley of Ballylee, the quiet man and his lady of the lake isle
of Innisfree, and now here the quiet man and his lady of the hill
country of Deisi Mumhan.
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"It could
be six months of daydreaming. I live in a landscape (i.e. the landscape
of
Éire) which every single day of my life is
enriching. It's
food and drink to me. And very happily, I'm allowed to be with my
family, who don't get to see a lot of me when I'm working. So I wish to
make up for that when I'm not.
It's a gift. It's a great privilege."
(from -The
Mystery Of Daniel Day-Lewis with photograph courtesy of CBS
News
Sunday
Morning,
6th January
2008)
Quiet
rhythm man Daniel by hearth
“… in
these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the
spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the sacred isle
of Éire, regardless of its creative custodian never having
been taught how to freely speculate, how to profoundly question, and
how to playfully define.
Spontaneity of speculation
being synonymous
with the philosophical-poetic, the philosophical-poetic with the rural
philosopher-poet, and by roundelay the rural philosopher-poet thee with
the spontaneity of speculation be.
And by the way of the rural
what may we say?
A
philosopher-poet of illimitable space we say.
Iohannes
Scottus Ériugena the metaphor of old salutes you;
salutes your
lyrical ear
and your skilful strumming of the rippling harp.”
(Hearing in
the Write, Canto 19, Ivy-muffled)
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