I can’t wait to sink into this one!
This book is the first volume of what I intend to be a life-long work. It is both literary and spiritual in nature. Like Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Suicide Dictionary will advance piece-meal as I continue with my goal of offering a“Contemporary Upanishads” that capture the beauty of both western intellectuality and eastern (or mystical) spirituality in a single literary framework. The closeness of my integral vision with the work of Ken Wilber will be obvious to the initiated. I have applied Mr. Wilber’s Integral Theory to the making of Suicide Dictionary and now consider it’s poetic expression an announcement of the emergence of an Integral Poetics, a sub-section of Integral Art. Although I am as yet employing poetic forms of the past, the ideas erupting from the symbols I offer are products of consciously operating from (at least) an “integral” or “second tier” level of awareness.
In 1453 ce an island was discovered in the North Atlantic called Ambrojjio and donated to the Catholic Church. Pope Nicholas V (the first humanist Pope) used the land to erect a secret monastery for an artist colony of monk-poets he employed to formulate what he called a “prophetic” or “inspired” document to be published in the year 2050. This artist colony (now called the Order of Quantum Catholics) has survived to the present day and still employs monk-poets who remain hard at work on this document, now titled Quantum Psalter. Here is the first volume describing their heroic work.
Maybe you have read the Upanishads, a few Buddhist sutras, or possibly even Rumi or Blake. But those describe the spiritual experience of yesterday. Suicide Dictionary is the poetic expression of spirituality in our time. We now live in an age where to be Integral is to be on the leading edge of human consciousness. Suicide Dictionary is the product of applying these higher levels of consciousness to the art of creative writing. It offers a “Contemporary Upanishads” that captures the beauty of both western intellectuality and eastern (or mystical) spirituality in a single literary framework.
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Have you read Final Exits?
No, I haven’t. It looks like an interesting read, though.
Suicide Dictionary is spiritual poetry in the vein of The Upanishads, but decidedly cutting-edge.
It is, more a dictionary on ways you can die then anything. Hence why, when I saw the link, I thought of it.