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The book "Still Nothing "is divided into two sections which
illustrate my own personal struggles and I suspect the struggles of
many others who live in the age of information. I do not believe
that I am saying anything controversial when I say that in this
modern age our society prizes above all things hard tangible facts
and proven modern science. These "prove it to me," "let me see it,"
"touch it," "taste it" are tangible needs for concrete facts are
what our society flourishes on. Now contrast that modern reality
and its needs against what most of us have been taught for the most
part unchanged by society since time immemorial about life, death,
god and our place in the universe. Encapsulate those two as of yet
irreconcilable viewpoints and you understand my journey. "Still
Nothing" walks the reader through my flirtation with madness, my
courtship with insanity and my brushes with heresy, as I try to
reconcile faith, the supernatural and the Spirituality with reason
rationality and logic. In the first part of my book I dive into
unbelievable supernatural events throughout my life of that defy
logic, reason and explanation as reported to me by my parents,
members of the Spiritual community, complete strangers, and real
events that I myself have witnessed. The first part of the book
walks through some of the skepticism that I had/have and my
personal conflicts between my deeply rational and my overwhelmingly
skeptical mind and the incredible and unbelievable supernatural
events that I was and I am experiencing. I will walk you down my
path to the point where I am today were all of my previously held
beliefs about life, death, god, and ultimate good and ultimate evil
are now in turmoil. In the second part of the book I try to take
away the "super" in supernatural, or as I like to sometimes refer
to the term as "beyond" natural or outside of nature, which to me
from my view point is an oxymoron. In this section I try to explain
that there is no such thing as "supernatural," it's all natural
because when we say "supernatural" all we are really saying is that
we cannot adequately explain an experience given the limits or our
knowledge so we categorize it as "beyond" natural or super"-
natural or beyond the explainable norms of nature. Much in the same
way as our ancestors did thousands of years ago when they tried to
explain thunder and lightning within the limits of their knowledge
at that time. What other explanation could there be other than a
"supernatural" explanation for thunder and lightning? Our ancestors
knew nothing about water molecules, electrons or the behavior of
the atmosphere, so to them they were rightly calling thunder and
lightning "super"-natural events. To them these "super" natural
events could only be angry gods venting their wrath against
un-pious man or the very gods themselves at war. Today we have
stripped away many of the ancient unscientific explanations and
taken "super" out of many ancient "supernatural" beliefs such as
the explanation of thunder and lightning and we have placed many of
these events solely in the realm of "natural." In this section of
my book I attempt to do the same to what still today remains in the
realm of"supernatural," that being Spirits/ghosts and life after
death. I tie string theory to ghosts and I separate the creation
event from god/Spirit and offer what I believe are solid reasoned
and rational explanations, but here is the tie to the first section
of the book.
Hi everyone I hope you enjoy this imagination driven, word soaked
voyage into some of most hidden and passionate parts of the human
experience on this mortal world. Sit back relax prepare your hearts
and enjoy. From the moment we are born are souls struggle within
the triangle of; prolonging and creating Life; avoiding and
cheating Death; and falling in and falling out of Love. These poems
capture and encapsulate these struggles and lay them bare for the
reader to personally and in some cases intimately relate to in
their own way. Some of the language is "old English" almost
Shakespearian inspired, which forces the reader to follow intently
each word and every nuance in order to ascertain there deeper
meaning. I hope that you will enjoy your own unique journey that
these poems take you on as each passenger on this rollercoaster of
emotions will be compelled to internalize and personalize each poem
based upon their own unique life experiences. Each explorer of the
soul's journey will find their own personal meanings and messages
and it will be each reader's unique life journey which will ensure
that no two readers will read these poems the same way. At times
these struggles described in these poems come pouring out raw with
few pauses and few breaks because I have always believed that the
soul does not speak in perfect sentences, it explodes outwards with
a rush of unchecked emotions and raw unbridled unapologetic
feelings which refuse to be contained by proper punctuated speech
and cannot be bound by the mundane rules of proper English as it
describes its journey through life in the only language the soul
speaks... passion. Please join me after you have read the poems on
my blog http: //thelifeofasoul.wordpress.com/ to discussion what
meanings you took from the poems Show me someone who has no passion
and I will show you someone who has no soul - Patrick Powell Dec
2010. Patrick W Powell Copyright 2010 (
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