This is spiritual poetry in a modern flavor without any cliches. Pearson's poetry for many years has sought to emphasize the spiritual and other-worldly, trying to give the reader a high without... More > drugs.< Less
Hyperreligiosity is a more established term for toxic faith or dysfunctional religious practices. There is a timely nature of this work, as religious extremism is in the news every night. The... More > author's hope is that the ideas in this book will become assimilated so that people drawn to acting out in religious extremism have other perspectives to consider. This book is instrumental for understanding why people join destructive cults. This book bridges the gap between psychological understanding and the spiritual drive. Each one done separately is usually disregarded by the audience drawn more to the other. That is, people writing on a secular psychological level do not always take into account historically important spiritual goals. But the most dangerous situation is when people with a religious drive are not instructed on the dangers of what can happen to people who are very religious and have some imbalances.< Less
"Motivated for the Cause" is a double-entendre: it refers to be motivated for the cause of our existence, in a sense the spiritual quest, and it also refers to being motivated for the cause... More > to make life great, to be in the full of art and experience.
I would like to find a way through my writing to save the true spirit of poetry by what I call the anti-novel. I didn't invent the term anti-novel, but it is seldom heard. It basically means a literary form that has none of the conventions of the novel (a definition from Webster's). I think the very buzz of the word "anti-novel" would sell copies of my work and thus give poetry more of a chance of surviving than it presently has. The anti-novel can read like a novel, but it gives the ponderance of statement usually only reserved for poetry. This book is actually mostly composed of poetry, but it is poetry that has been taken out of verse form and put into paragraphs.< Less
Robert Pearson, author of the Virtuism philosophy and creator of the ParaMind Brainstorming Software program, offers here a new poetic prose novel. Authors familar with James Joyce, Arthur Rimbaud... More > and the French Surrealist school will be familar with its verse-compacted-into-paragraphs style.
Pearson's poetry for many years has sought to emphasize the spiritual and other-worldly, trying to give the reader a high without drugs. Poet Billy Lamont says, "Lushness of Soul is a brilliant prose masterpiece. This is how Arthur Rimbaud would have sounded if he had spent a season in Heaven instead of "a season in hell." It's like language has been raptured and been reborn through Robert Pearson's pen. Extemely skillful word craftmanship. He is a true genius!"< Less
Hyperreligiosity is a more established psychiatrically-used term for toxic faith. There is a timely nature of this work, as religious extremism is in the news every night. The author's hope is that... More > the ideas in this book will become assimilated so that people drawn to acting out in religious extremism have other perspectives to consider. This book is instrumental for understanding why people join destructive cults. This book bridges the gap between psychological understanding and the spiritual drive. Each one done separately is usually disregarded by the audience drawn more to the other. That is, people writing on a secular psychological level do not always take into account historically important spiritual goals. But the most dangerous situation is when people with a religious drive are not instructed on the dangers of what can happen to people who are very religious and have some imbalances.< Less
Virtuism is about the aesthetics of human virtue, how virtuous deeds produce in us the same experience as great works of art. Witnessing or creating a virtuous act produces the aesthetic experience. ... More > This book also explores that the unverse acts in a way that is essentially "virtuous" towards us, in the long run, if we make an effort to act virtuous in it.< Less
When people take visions and voices as signs from the divine, they may become delusional. It has only been in the recent past that we have been able to see clearly by brain sciences that many of... More > these experiences actually are taking place in the brain. Such studies, including one in which the IQ of hallucinators was shown to decrease after the onset of hallucinations, are very important for all religious people to understand.
The author believes that today's spiritual climate is often dangerous. Most of the traditional religious leaders, whether they be Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu or Buddhist, teach that some religious experiences may be dangerous. However, in today’s spiritual marketplace, these experiences often become the most important part of some people’s spirituality.
The author has tried to remove his own specific personal beliefs from this book to create an important interfaith work.< Less
Hyperreligiosity is a more established psychiatrically-used term for toxic faith. There is a timely nature of this work, as religious extremism is in the news every night. The author's hope is that... More > the ideas in this book will become assimilated so that people drawn to acting out in religious extremism have other perspectives to consider. This book is instrumental for understanding why people join destructive cults. This book bridges the gap between psychological understanding and the spiritual drive. Each one done separately is usually disregarded by the audience drawn more to the other. That is, people writing on a secular psychological level do not always take into account historically important spiritual goals. But the most dangerous situation is when people with a religious drive are not instructed on the dangers of what can happen to people who are very religious and have some imbalances.< Less
Hyperreligiosity is a more established term for toxic faith or dysfunctional religious practices. There is a timely nature of this work, as religious extremism is in the news every night. The... More > author's hope is that the ideas in this book will become assimilated so that people drawn to acting out in religious extremism have other perspectives to consider. This book is instrumental for understanding why people join destructive cults. This book bridges the gap between psychological understanding and the spiritual drive. Each one done separately is usually disregarded by the audience drawn more to the other. That is, people writing on a secular psychological level do not always take into account historically important spiritual goals. But the most dangerous situation is when people with a religious drive are not instructed on the dangers of what can happen to people who are very religious and have some imbalances.< Less
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