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FOUR BLOCKBUSTER AUTHORS
CAPTURED LIVE AT NEW YORK'S TOWN HALL
On February 2, 2002, Stephen King, Pat Conroy, John Grisham and Peter Straub gathered at New York's Town Hall for a very special evening. These four bestselling authors stepped up to the microphone to raise money for one of the most recognizable voices in audiobooks, Frank Muller, an actor who sustained terrible injuries from a motorcycle accident. Muller, who has recorded hundreds of novels, including many by these authors, may never work again.
This once-in-a-lifetime event is captured here, and 100% of all profits will be donated to The Wavedancer Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports Frank Muller and other artists who fall prey to illness or injury and can no longer perform.
Grisham kicks off the evening with a heartfelt reading of an excerpt from his blockbuster bestseller The Summons. He's followed by Straub who captivates the audience with a hair-raising episode from Black House, the latest thriller he co-authored with Stephen King. King changes pace with a joyful reading of his classic short story The Revenge of Lardass Hogan. Finally, Conroy engages the audience in a hilarious chat on the art of writing.
A unique program that pays tribute to a true master craftsman, this audiobook is an unforgettable listening experience.
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A Zen master in a primitive society gets turned into a nanotech-enhanced "demon" by a mad, malicious mushroom-farmer. The master, now gifted with superhuman strength and senses, must flee his fearful Luddite fellows or face death. The similarly gifted, space-faring Rykashans take him in and use more "nanites" to bring their low-tech stray up to speed. Pssht! A spray can of nanites teaches the master the rudiments of Rykashan society. Pssht! He then learns to be a space janitor. Pssht! He later becomes a "needle jockey," a sort of interstellar flying-ace/truck driver, who even gets to talk to God (or a god, at any rate).
Leave it to L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (Fall of Angels, Ghost of the Revelator) to pull this sort of weirdness. But, as should be expected from such an inventive author, the quirky mise-en-scène serves a purpose: setting a story of personal transformation against a Twilight Zone-ian backdrop of contrasting societies, ethics, and tech levels. Although flat in spots and maybe a little pokey, Gravity Dreams is a winning little SF drama, the tale of one man's realization that true knowledge doesn't come from a can. --Paul Hughes
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In Earth's distant future, Tyndel is both teacher and mentor, a staunch devotee to his conservative and rigidly structured religious culture. Then a rogue infection of nanotechnology transforms him into a "demon", something more than human, and he is forced into exile, fleeing to the more technologically advanced space-faring civilization that lies to the north, one that his own righteous people consider evil. Although shaken by his transformation, he has the rare talent required to become a space pilot. What no one, least of all Tyndel, expects, is his deep-space encounter with a vastly superior being--perhaps with God.
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Enjoyable once you see how the the print flows on the page...Then becomes a book you can't put down!.......2006-02-24
Enjoyable once you see how the print flows on the page...Then becomes a book you can't put down! I bet that statement just confused you, yet it says just what is needed to make reading this book, and enjoyable experience. If you have read L.E. Modesitt Recluce Saga and his work of The Spellsong Cycle, then your expectations would be high for Gravity Dreams too. Before purchasing this book, I read the reader's reviews of L.E. Modesitt's other works, and they did not have the 5 star across the board reviews that the Recluse Saga had at the time I read those reviews. So I was a bit concerned about ventering into his other works. But I figured to give it a try. So after purchasing Gravity Dreams, I decided to read it, and found it was dry and slow to start, so I shelved it, for maybe later I would read it. After about 2 years, I tried it again, and then I looked at those dry area's of print, those area that were the highly complicated story of Fiction, was all in a altered print. So I then started to speed read or skim those areas when I came to those altered word of print. At that point, the book, became one of those books you just can't put down, that you find yourself running late, because you just have to keep read some more of the book. Author L.E. Modesitt it appears to have written this book, so those that enjoy those high discriptive and very dry areas may read them, and those that do not, will see the chagne of print on the page, and be able to identify those area's that are not that important to the story and can skim through that area, so all types of readers may enjoy this book, Well Done L.E. Modesitt!
A nice setup, but flabby execution.......2005-09-13
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Rating: "B-" -- interesting backstory, but a slow, bloated novel.
The best thing about Gravity Dreams is the backstory. Set 5,000 years from now, a post-collapse Earth supports static "mite" cultures, secretly dominated by the spacegoing nanotech Rykasha "demons". Modesitt's themes include (surprise!) ecology, personal responsibility; and passive, fatalistic ("eastern") vs. dynamic ("western") culture.
A nice setup, but flabby execution: Gravity Dreams starts out so slowly that I almost gave up (and kinda wish I had). About 75 pages in ("Sciamachy"), the pace picks up, but once the protag enters starpilot flight school... well, I learned far more about needleship [note 1] flight training than I'd *ever* want to know. "It's a sin to waste the reader's time" -- LvC Niven.
Gravity Dreams would have made a nice novella, but there just isn't enough substance here to fill 400 pages. For diehard Modesitt fans only -- and they'll want to skim.
Modesitt's previous five SF outings -- Parafaith War, Ecolitan Enigma, Adiamante, Of Tangible Ghosts & Ghosts of the Revelator (reviewed, and recommended, at site below) -- were all good to excellent, so I can forgive one clunker. If you haven't tried Modesitt's SF, don't start with Gravity Dreams!
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(1) -- one nice touch is a needleship named "Costigan".
review copyright 1999 by Peter D. Tillman
A couple of intersting ideas.......2003-09-29
I have always loved a book that isn't afraid to talk about philosophy. Modesitt is not only not afriad, but any of his science fiction books could serve as a final paper in a philosopy 101 class. Kind of like an action book for an acedmic, the plot of this book is really just meant to set up the main character's discussions with himself and other people around him.
I liked this book for the fact that was kind of a comeing of age story. I brought up issues such as honesty, and had some very good comentary about a man who is forced to come and live a socity that is different, and technoligly more advanced than his own.
The problem with the book is that the philosophy and the main character quickly becomes very self centered and arrogant. Many parts of this book brought me back to my high school days, where I would have arguments with friends that were more about being clever that being right. By the end of the book the character has a very contrived philosophical conversion that is a the best example of intelectual flatulence that I had seen written outside of a university.
A good book(this from a action junkie).......2001-05-04
While in Norway, and traveling all over the country, I had a lot of time on my hands, visiting the few good book stores in Oslo, i found a limited selection(but still impressive for a non english speaking country) of books in english, among them was Gravity Dreams, I decide to give it a shot, mainly because of lack of other good choices. I have to say that I am a action junkie, I often feel cheated if someone doesn't die in at least the first twenty pages of the book. After reading this book, I was glad I picked it up, this was one of the best books I have ever read. The book is more about self-discovering and how someone from a backwatar society blends in with a advanced space faring society. The book presents some very great ideas on how a futuristic society should be. Overall the book concentrates on the development of the main character and his struggles to come to terms with his new life. For your average action fans this book my seem bit dry, but for anyone who wants some really good plot and character development then this is a the book for you.
For thse who like Long, Sloooow books........2001-04-12
I'm sorry, but I sort of hated this book. I genuinely found it frustrating. It's well written, and I see that many people enjoyed it and I respect that, but this book is not for everyone. Hundreds of pages go by with virtually nothing happening, other than long repetitive philosphical dual-ogues between the main character and his various handlers. Detail? Yes, I suppose if you like to know the color and shape of everyone's outfit, the color of every room and building and rock and tree, then you'll be happy. There must be forty or fifty different times when we get to hear what these people are having to eat in various cafeterias as they gently argue about what's important in society. There must be five or six hundred redundant references to the importance of honesty in a relationship. I get the feeling the author had a real personal breakthrough in his relationship with "Carol" (to whom the book is dedicated) and it seems clear "Cerrelle" is based on her. That's beatiful and I certainly support it. But frankly, I got tired of reading the same dicussion over and over again. I don't want to be a killjoy, and clearly many will disagree with me, but I feel I should warn those that like books that move on from new idea to new idea, with at least a little action: this is probably not the book for you.
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Einstein's Dream: The Search for a Unified Theory of the Universe
Barry Parker
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Highly recommended.......2000-03-25
As an engineer I feel obligated to keep up to speed with things scientific, and I also have an interest in Physics. This book definitely updates modern Physics to an average reader, and has many interesting stories to supplement the material. It has just the right mix of science, history and math to keep the reader interested. I seriously recommend it to all interested in Physics.
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Gravity's Dream
Kate Light
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Winner of the 2006 Donald Justice Poetry Award sponsored by the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards at the West Chester University Poetry Center.
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Plenty of room for a View.......2007-07-12
A disappointment. Though formally correct and MFA-precise, the poems seem to betray a pervasive narcissism, a refraction of self-exiled ego, an optical interference where wave and trough cancel each other out. The poems are lyrical, superbly crafted, sometimes witty, but betray a peculiar lack of insight -- as though the author endorsed Pythagoras's view that light traveled outward from the eye. A fine, precise virtuoso's eye ... but only that one eye. Gravity doesn't curve this light.
Luminous Epiphanies Here.......2007-03-09
Kate Light, a professional musician, is also a skillful poet of heartbreaking honest and clarity. She is a master of traditional forms who is on the same playing field with Kay Ryan. Her narrative excursions here are surprising and effective.
More to the point, Light is a poet of quiet listening and intimacy. She is a poet whose work reflects a vibrant spiritual practice. In her capable hands, the aptly named Light makes of the human heart a gorgeous onion. Peeling its layers in poem after poem, Light teaches us so much more about ourselves, and about love and our imagined images of love.
Kate Light is an essential poet, a spiritual friend.
Robert McDowell, Author of the forthcoming Spiritual Practice and Poetry
Written with a gamboling, lyrical intensity.......2007-01-06
Gravity's Dream: New Poems and Sonnets is the third poetry collection of teacher and professional violinist Kate Light. Written with a gamboling, lyrical intensity that freely transitions from moment to moment, the poems - some free-verse, some crafted as sonnets, some approaching stream-of-consciousness narration - aptly express the chaotic confusion of surface thoughts in everyday life. "To You": I'm writing to you now. There was no "you" / except a kind of guess; that maybe someone / here or there would catch a drift / of wit or recognition, or, forgive my un- / worthiness, Inspiration. Taken for stiff / by some, undisciplined by others (all true, / all true?), I bow my head before / those judgment gods; & if now some small following lifts / that head back up (as I have said) by the tip / of the chin, looks into the eyes, looks in, / says, I accept these things as gifts, / then, okay, you're who I'm writing for, / far off, or near; who I'm here biting my lip / to be clear to. Yes, you. Yes, you.
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Newton's Dream
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Relationship is the greatest faith-shaping tool a parent possesses. Because kids learn about following Christ mostly from their parents, we have a huge responsibility to model authentic faith and its practice on a daily basis. Steve and Valerie Bell offer Faith-Shaped Kids as a practical tool to help parents maximize their relationship with their children in such a way as to draw them to faith. Filled with life lessons and useful suggestions, this resource helps readers ride out the roller-coaster ride called parenting.Faith-Shaped Kids is co-published with the Willow Creek Association (WCA). The WCA is affiliated with Willow Creek Community Church, the largest church in America, and serves thousands of pastors and Christian leaders through North America. Its primary goal is to foster local church transformation and vitality.
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Provence Harvest: With recipes by Jacques Chibois
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To visit Provence is to fall in love not only with its landscapes but also its food. In Provence Harvest, two longtime residents of the legendary area in the South of France take readers on a stunning tour of both the countryside and the cuisine it has inspired. Filled with recipes and reminiscences and illustrated with 200 gorgeous photographs, the book captures what it is like to cook, eat, and live in this beautiful region.
Michelin two-star chef Jacques Chibois offers 40 Provençal recipes-roast partridge with chestnuts and juniper berries, ribbons of warm leeks with truffles, and French toast with roasted apples, to name a few-along with helpful advice on topics ranging from cooking fish to using flowers in the kitchen. In her engaging text, Louisa Jones explores the places and products that enhance Chibois's cooking and give it a true Provençal flavor. A tribute to the "farm to plate" philosophy, Provence Harvest is an insider's guide to appreciating-and re-creating-the world-famous cuisine of Provence in your own kitchen.
Features stunning photography of both the cuisine and landscape of Provence
Includes 40 recipes by renowned French chef Jacques Chibois, along with advice for the home cook
Foreword by chef and James Beard Award nominee Dan Barber
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While working in a classic tradition inspierd by the art of ancient and Renaissance Italy, Marioni has invented fresh forms and color combinations that carry the art forward into a new millennium. This stunning volume brilliantly captures the beauty of Marioni's art.
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An informative text and commentary.......2001-10-15
Showcasing Dante Marioni's glassblowing with 139 colorplates and four black/white photographs, Tina Oldknow (Curator of Modern Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York); Joseph Marioni (twice artist-in-residence at the Pilchuck Glass School); and Edward R. Quick (Curator, Presidential Materials Staff, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.) offer an informative text and commentary that enhances our understanding of this truly gifted man and his work. Very highly recommended for all serious personal, academic, professional, and community library collections, Dante Marioni: Blown Glass provides a "reader friendly" step-by-step depiction of the process used in the making of a blown-glass vase, a list of public collections, solo and group exhibitions, bibliography, biography, and index.
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Creating Art from Fibers and Fabrics
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Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom: The Coherence of Theism : Omniscience (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
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The ancient problem of fatalism, more particularly theological fatalism, has resurfaced with surprising vigour in the second half of the twentieth century. Two questions predominate in the debate: (1) Is divine foreknowledge compatible with human freedom and (2) How can God foreknow future free acts? Having surveyed the historical background of this debate in The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents from Aristotle to Suarez (Brill: 1988), William Lane Craig now attempts to address these issues critically. His wide-ranging discussion brings together a thought- provoking array of related topics such as logical fatalism, multivalent logic, backward causation, precognition, time travel, counterfactual logic, temporal necessity, Newcomb's Problem, middle knowledge, and relativity theory. The present work serves both as a useful survey of the extensive literature on theological fatalism and related fields and as a stimulating assessment of the possibility of divine foreknowledge of future free acts.
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Historia de Una Mujer Que Camino Por La Vida Con Zapatos de Disenador
Margo Glantz
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La Guia del Disenador Grafico Sobre Trifas, Estimaciones y Presupuestos
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The Graphic Designer's Guide
Este libro es la guía más completa sobre los procedimientos necesarios para el cálculo de precios en el medio del diseño gráfico. Utiliza la experiencia de diseñadores que son dueños de sus propios negocios y propone una docena de métodos creativos y soluciones útiles para obtener beneficios.
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on July 14, 1997. The length of the article is 1549 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Adolfo Dominguez: 'las mujeres son muy superiores a los hombres'. (Dominguez, diseñador de modas)(TT: Adolfo Dominguez: 'women are much superior to men')(Interview)
Author: Eva Reuss
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Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 14, 1997
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Article Type: Interview
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This digital document is an article from Actual, published by Editorial Contenido, S.A. de C.V. on September 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1074 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Armando Mafud triunfó en París, cuna de la moda. (diseñador mexicano de origen sirio)(TT: Armando Mafud was successful in Paris, the cradle of fashion) (TA: Mexican designer of Syrian origin)
Author: Sofía Valor
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“If you want to pursue in a Western way the path that we follow here at Mirtola, you need to study and work with the Gurdjieffian teaching.”
Thus did the guru Madhava Ashish, at their first meeting, invite American businessman Sy Ginsburg on a spiritual journey that would last 19 years (until the guru's death) and include a lengthy correspondence and annual visits to Sri Madhava Ashish's Mirtola ashram, near Almora, in India's Himalayan foothills. Along the way, the entrepreneur/author would not only be caught up in the teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff, but also in the search for the elusive unitive vision—the world viewed from the perspective of the greater Self and not the personality.
In this remarkable spiritual document, the reader shares the search, increasingly catching glimpses of the unitive vision as the book draws toward a close that is also an opening out, into the vaster dimensions of the human mind.
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East becomes West.......2002-08-26
Sy Ginsburg went East in his search and found a teacher who came from West. Sy quotes Sri Madhave Ashish from his letters and lectures, which have a remarkable clearity, both in vision and expression. Ashish has the ability to put deep thoughts in a simple and understandable form and he does it with authority.
The book is certainly of interest for those who study Gurdjieff's ideas. The picture that Sy Ginsburg paints of himself is that of a rebel, who does not always agree with the Work authorities, but will pursue his own way. He has a good solution to the matter to be solved - he builds his own Work activity. To put it in business terms: he makes a product that satisfies the demand, which in his case is his own.
A clear window to a remarkable man.......2002-08-18
This book is a compilation of letters and other interactions between the author and Sri Madhava Ashish over many years. Sri Madhava Ashish, born English, lived most of his adult life in a small ashram in the middle Himalayas, Mirtola. His approach to inner and spiritual questions was comprehensive, modern, and clear. As such it attracted a diverse community to him and to Mirtola. Ginsburg's book shows through their communications over many years the subtle, complex, yet harmonious nature of Sri Madhava Ashish's teaching, if that word can be applied here. For, rather than systematized teaching, which he abhorred, he represented a living, organic, clear yet intelligent medium between the few basic principles and their translation into spiritual practice, what he would call wisdom. Ginsburg's book is written with a light touch so that no more than is necessary of personality impinges on the always original and fresh insights going back and forth in their dialogue. There is a dialectic in the book between constant themes, both in terms of specific issues of a real life, lived, and the one source that establishes a firm foundation for their resolution. The other part of the dialectic is the original and fresh way in which these were always interpreted.
A Piece of Truth.......2002-03-03
During the past decade a host of books that concern man's spiritual quest have appeared. Unfortunately, most of them focus the readers attention on conclusions, convictions and pronouncements on 'the' way to come to spirtiual fulfillment. Not so, thankfully, with Sy Ginsburg's "In Search of the Unitive Vision - Letters of Sri Madhava Ashish to an American Businessman 1978-1997". In this compact [280 pages], highly readable collection lie innumerable pearls of practical and critical advise, focusing throughout on the uniqueness of man's capacity to stand in the 'awareness that he is aware'. Refreshingly, Ginsburg does not spare himself in his selection of answers given by Ashish to his [Sy's] questions. When an author is able and willing to expose his own superficialities and recurrant inabliity to stay on track a taste of reality and the wish for truth in the spiritual pursuit is evident.
Ginsburg intersperses his lively coorespondance with a selection of of four essays by Ashish that highlight his ablility to be succinct and practical in his exploration of spiritual questions.
This book is a significant contribution to the reconciliation of the inner and outer life of man. Ginsburgs growth in Being, growth in his own pursuit of this inner-outer reconcilliation, is ably reflected in the consistancy of his search and in the perseptive help given him by this quite remarkable 'englishman-become-guide'.
The book is a gift worth sharing with all of your co-searchers.
Keith A. Buzzell, D.O.
A Review of "In search of the Unitive Vision" by Ginsburg........2002-02-22
Books about spirituality are so common in the market these days that it becomes difficult for even a serious seeker to sort writings dealing with the real from fantasy or downright fraud. The plethora of consciously or unconsciously written mixture of truths, half-truths and lies about man's spiritual quest, nevertheless, does keep on throwing up gems about reality, even if to remind us that there IS a reality far greater and stranger than anything that the human mind can invent or discover. Seymour Ginsburg's "In Search of the Unitive Vision" is one such gem and is the story of an honest seeker after the mysteries of life and death who was lucky enough to come in contact with a remarkable man who through sheer hard work and unwavering dedication had resolved that mystery for himself and was willing to help others who wanted to do the same.
In our "global village" today, it is of significance to note that the author of the book is a successful American businessman while his mentor, Sri Madhava Ashish, was a Hindu Vaishnava monk of mixed English and Scottish descent who spent 55 of the 77 years of his life in the Himalayan foothills of India. It is the identity of the individual with the universal that needs to be experienced, Sri Madhava Ashish argues, before we can see life in its full glory through what he called the "Unitive Vision."
This excellent book can be described as the inner autobiography of Ginsburg that truly reflects the aspirations, doubts, trials and tribulations of a seeker of truth. It also asserts that the inner path is a path of self-improvement, not in the sense of acquiring any material benefits (such as name, fame, power or wealth) but improvement aimed at reaching that state of "perfection" which is the birth right of every man and woman merely because one is a human being. The search for this perfection has nothing to do with one's nationality, religion, profession, gender or cultural bias. It has very much to do with recognizing one's inevitable biases and gradually getting rid of them so that one can look at oneself in a reasonably dispassionate manner. Ginsburg brings out a very natural unfolding of the issues faced by a spiritual aspirant and does not hesitate to point out where he found that his preconceived ideas had to be abandoned when they failed the test of objective reasoning.
Any book on spirituality gets its life not only from the story of the writer but the living contact it is able to engender with a real knower of truth. Sri Madhava Ashish was such a knower and Ginsburg is able to create an atmosphere of the palpable presence of the master by providing quotations from his letters and articles.
This excellent book as a "must read" for all old and young seekers after truth all over the world.
There are a few repetitions but they seem necessary to reinforce some information which may otherwise go unregistered in the mind of the a reader; and I could find only ONE typographical error in the entire book!
A Spiritual Journey.......2002-02-07
IN SEARCH OF THE UNITIVE VISION by Seymour B. Ginsburg is the account of the author's encounter and subsequent relationship with an extrordinarily wise teacher, Sri Madhava Ashish, who in the Western esoteric tradition would be known as an Initiate. Ashish, of Scottish descent, had spent virtually his entire adult life in India engaged in the Spiritual pursuit of the ultimate Transcendent state of Consciousness or, as termed in the book's title, The Unitive Vision where the identity of Self, the root of consciousness, with the Highest Reality is experienced. The author, who conveys his point of departure by presenting himself unpretentiously as a businessman, is initially skeptical and generally a logical positivist in his philosophical approach to life; however, following a family tragedy he sought something more than the ephemeral rewards of personal achievement. With the same great vigor and enthusiasm that had brought him worldly success, the author now began an adventure in unknown territory sparing no effort to satisfy his persistent curiosity.
The book charts the author's relationship with Ashish and his developing familiarity with esotericism, through books, contacts with important figures, channelling and membership in schools of spiritual development. This relationship was conducted over a nineteen year period through letters and yearly visits; the corpus of letters captures the thrust and depth of Ashish's teaching and documents his generosity and guidance in reponse to Mr. Ginsburg's probing questions about mediums, the collective unconsciousness, personal dreams, and inner experience. Gems of knowedge are conveyed throughout the letters i.e.Ashish's observations on the relationship of movements to the alterations in consciousness.
Ashish is a master therapist as well as a Spiritual Master and guides the author through the territory of his personal issues, psychological defenses and identifications to achieve an integration of heart and mind. Ashish repeatedly stresses the importance of first hand experience which cannot be gotten from books or personal contact with those who have experienced something of a higher nature even though they might provide inspiration and motivation. He directs the author to relax his logical mind which has served him so well, bringing him to the quest, but now would hinder him from opening to That Reality which is beyond his security net. The author joined and later became a facilitator in a Gurdjieff group, a leader of a Theosophical study group, and organized yearly conferences where the key ideas of Gurdjieff were discussed and eminent Gurdjieff scholars participated and submitted manuscripts that were later published. The letters document Ashish's observations on these activities but also document Ashish's unrelenting message that the path is inward even if group activity might enhance the integration of the personality and generate motivation.
I would highly recommend this book which in a wonderfully accessible and articulate manner brings to us the teaching of an exemplary Man as well as the record of a seeker's developing awareness . The message will greatly contribute to the understanding of the well-seasoned seeker as well as someone who is embarking on the spiritual journey with skepticism and diffidence. The approach, façade and substance of Ashish's teaching is utterly nondenominational and the message does not violate the tenets of any religion because of the respect shown to the essential undergirding of all approaches to spirituality which is Love, the most direct means to transcendence.
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