One Cosmos under God: The Unification of Matter, Life, Mind and Spirit - Softcover

Godwin, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557788367 ISBN 13: 9781557788368

Publisher: Paragon House, 2004

Synopsis

One Cosmos under God is an extraordinary book that takes the reader on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the whole of creation. It dares to venture where language cannot go, into the "mind of God" prior to the creation, through to the "mind of the saint" who transcends the culturally conditioned ego, escapes history, and merges with the divine mind.This book is intended to be both serious and entertaining, like an intellectual amusement park ride through the whole of creation. It operates under the premise that if God exists, He has a very sophisticated sense of humor, and the book makes many important points in an ironic or punning way, including in the opening "creation story" and the closing "Cosmobliteration" of language into mystical oneness.

About this title

About the Author

Robert W. Godwin, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, independent scholar, and gentleman loafer.  Since the publication of his new testavus for the rest of us, One Cosmos Under God, Dr. Godwin has been operating the One Cosmos blog (linked to this page), with well over a thousand posts which track his daily practice of sliding down the celestial firepole each morning, seizing the wheel of the cosmic bus, and channeling the roaring torrent of hyperborean gnosis into the feeble stream of cyberspace.  To no one's surprise, a benign cult has now formed around this mysterious and all-powerful author, who is Laughty Revelator, Thrice-Cleared Operating Thetan, and Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler of the Transdimensional Disorder of the Friendly Sons & Daughters of the Cosmic Raccoons.  He lives with his wife and five year-old son in a doublewide cloud located just over the subjective horizon, and is the sworn enemy of Deepak Chopra.

From the Inside Flap

"What a delight! Godwin gives us the psychedelic flair of Robert Anton Wilson, percolated with the cosmic vision of Olaf Stapledon. Welcome back to the Star Maker." --Allan Combs, author of Consciousness Explained Better: Towards an Integral Understanding of the Multifaceted Nature of Consciousness, teaches at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, and The Saybrook Institute in San Francisco.

"It is as if this sly author infiltrated the motherboard of God's computer and, with ecstatic voyeuristic glee, gazed upon the master plan for creation. This work is a daring, daunting, juggling act of so many disciplines.... so cosmic in its sweep, so eternal in its landscape, and so rife with rich puns.... James Joyce would have loved this work. The context is extraordinary. There is union after union of eastern and western thought in terms of cosmology, religion, philosophy, psychoanalysis, biology, and lots more." --James S. Grotstein, Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine, author of Who is the Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream?

"A stimulating, literate, and highly enjoyable investigation of the most important philosophic issue of our time: how the life of the mind relates to the life of the universe." Richard Smoley, author of Inner Christianity

Edition details

• Publisher: Paragon House
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557788367
• ISBN 13: 9781557788368
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 315