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Twenty years in the making, in Letters from the American Desert, Glaysher reflects on the cultural, political, and religious history of Western and non-Western civilizations, pondering the dilemmas of postmodernity, in a compelling struggle for spiritual knowledge and truth. In what is a highly autobiographical work, fully cognizant of the relativism and nihilism of modern life, Glaysher finds a deeper meaning and purpose in a universal Vision. Confronting the antinomies of the soul, grounded in the dialectic, Glaysher charts a path beyond the postmodern desert.
Alluding extensively to Martin Luther and W. B. Yeats at All Souls Chapel, “metaphors for poetry,” from Yeats’s book A Vision, Glaysher considers the example of the global, universal message of the oneness of God, all religions, and humankind, holding out a new hope and peaceful Vision for a world in spiritual and global crisis.
Far from a theocracy, Glaysher envisions a modest separation of church and state, as the will of God, in an unorganized religion, a universal synthesis of all spiritual and wisdom traditions, in harmony and balance with universal peace, in a global age of pluralism, where religious belief is a distinctive mark of the individual, not collective, communal identity.
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Preface. "Proverbial wisdom and intuitions can be more sustaining than all the cerebral abstractions of a century. Where one's first memories are formed can become a touchstone of reality, a yardstick with which to measure irreality. The suburbs can seem to float between the two, like the soul between two worlds, living out its allotted time. The challenge is what we make of it."
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"A poet now whose work and dedication to a demanding and difficult art I admire; a man who has the gift of inner grace." -- Robert Hayden
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- PublisherEarthrise Pr
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0967042119
- ISBN 13 9780967042114
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages171
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