This award winning nonfiction book, A Search for Meaning from the
Surface of a Small Planet, is both sober and lighthearted,
sometimes awed and sometimes irreverent (toward both science and
religion)-but always intensely personal, rational, stretching and
pressing toward a wedding of scientific understanding and mystical
thought. Although Don Pendleton (1927-1995) did not come draped
with academic honors or letters, his extensive background in
science and communications-as a telegrapher, an aerospace engineer,
a metaphysical scholar, and author, gave him the ability to take a
reader very far beyond themselves, whether it be in fiction or in
nonfiction. In this book, Pendleton dramatically investigates the
sciences, religions and philosophies with a view toward dignifying
the human experience and provides a frame work in which the
individual reader may validate his/her own life and dreams relating
to the whole. Don's slant into the material is unique; often
humorous; the findings evocative; conclusions satisfying for the
rationalist; inspiring; and, perhaps, even transformational for the
true seeker. For those who wish to be challenged by innovative
thinking and daring ideas-reaching with their minds to coax out an
understanding of the world as well as the meaning of their own
lives-will find this book takes them on a spiritual search as well
as an intellectual one Don Pendleton was not only a writer with a
strong sense of how to use language, but he was also an
interdisciplinarian whose interests are far-ranging. A SEARCH FOR
MEANING is nothing less than an attempt to synthesize metaphysics
and physics. Yet, the tenor of the book invites a broad audience to
read, to think about, to puzzle over the many questions he asks in
his quest to understand the meaning of 'meaning.' Integrating many
domains of knowledge, Pendleton touches on questions of religion,
God, relativity, and brain research, among other fields...all in
all, this book is a must-read for a general audience. -Gabriele
Rico, Ph.D., author of the best-selling, Writing the Natural Way,
Professor of English and Creative Arts at San Jose State
University, and Independent E-book Awards Judge, 2002. A Search for
Meaning From the Surface of a Small Planet won the Independent
E-book 2002 Best of Nonfiction Award and the Digital Literature
Best of Nonfiction, 2002. Available in Tradepaper and Kindle.
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