Download or read book Hymn to Sea written by Art Aeon and published by AEON PRESS, Halifax, NS, Canada. This book was released on with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hymn to Sea” by Art Aeon is a collection of 70 short-poems; they sing of the magnificent beauty, the deep mystery, and the sublime spirituality of sea in simple songs. The titles of the poems are as follows: {1} Sailing at Sea {2} Acadie (Nova Scotia) {3}Cape Breton {4} Seascape {5} Margaree River {6} Prayer at Sunset {7} Strolling Carefree {8} Along the Cabot Trail {9} Sanctuary in Cape Breton {10} Sea Sculptures {11} A Haven by Sea {12} Crescent Beach {13} On the Skyline Trail {14} Musing on Shining Stars {15}In the Kejimkujik Park {16} A Fishing Cove {17} Cape Split {18} Abegweit (Prince Edward Island) {19} Peggy’s Cove {20} Hiking around Peggy’s Cove {21} Voice of Sea {22} Stormy Sea {23} Moonlit Seashores {24}A Pair of Seabirds {25} In my Haven by Sea {26} Misty Sea {27} Prayer by Frozen Sea {28} Prayer to Sea {29}Cosmic Music{30} Double Storms {31} Winter Journey {32} Winter Hike {33} Sunset at Sea {34} Winter’s Lull {35} Spring Stupor {36} In Snow {37} The Moon in Clouds{38} Tempests {39}Workaday {40} Thunderstorms {41} Old Sailors’ Tombstones{42}Hiking in Mists {43} Planting Pine Seedlings {44} Bay of Hope {45} Camping at Bay of Hope {46} On Beach Meadow Beach {47} Dawn of Awakening {48}The Sea in Me {49} A Bird and a Child {50}Canoeing at Sea {51} Silent Night {52}A Heron at Sunset {53}Ecstasy {54}Into Words{55}Tides in Life {56}Plea. {57} A Froth on Sea {58}My Sea {59}Evening Walk {60}Repose in Sea {61} Dawn at Sunset {62}Sea at Rest{63}Voice in Me {64}To Oneself {65} Offering {66}Prayer {67} Into Ancient Myth {68}For Inner awakening {69} Confession {70} Inner Voice.

Download or read book Hymn to the Canadian Rockies written by Art Aeon and published by AEON PRESS, Halifax, NS, Canada. This book was released on with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hymn to the Canadian Rockies is a collection of short poems. They sing of the magnificent beauty and the sublime spirituality of the Canadian Rockies.

Download or read book Flowing with Seasons 2nd Edition written by Art Aeon and published by AEON PRESS, Halifax, NS, Canada. This book was released on with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Flowing with Seasons” by Art Aeon is a collection of sixty short-poems. They sing of a plain workaday life on the pristine Atlantic coasts of Canada as it flows with the natural cycles of spring, summer, autumn, and winter in the mysterious journey of our life. The titles of poems are: {1} Family Hiking {2} Rainbow {3} Bay at Dusk {4} Our Children at Play {5} In Rain {6} Free at Sea {7} Autumn Elegy {8} Walking Home on Snow {9} Shy Spring {10} Summer Dream {11} Painting Autumn {12} Blizzard {13} Calm Sea {14} Summer Repose {15} Autumn Moon {16} Winter Blues {17} Spring Prayer {18} Daydreaming at Sea {19} Autumn Leaves {20} Snowy Night {21} Languid Spring {22} Praying on a Canoe {23} Inner Autumn {24} Winter Journey {25} Spring Stroll {26} Birds’ Footprints {27} Autumn Night {28} Snowy Village {29} Spring Storm {30} Summer Sunset {31} Rumination {32} Mute Songs {33} Wandering Carefree {34} Dews on a Rose {35} Migrating Birds {36} On Freezing Seashores {37} Dismal Spring {38} Evening Stroll {39} Autumn Woods {40} Seasons’ Flow {41} For Roses and Poems {42} Gardening {43} Touch of Autumn {44} Winter Desolation {45} Uneasy Spring {46} Dawn {47} Autumn Rose {48} Footprints on Snow {49} Spring Mists {50} Daydreaming {51} Moonlit Garden {52} Tides {53} Chilly Spring {54} Blessing {55} Toil and Prayer {56} A Wanderer {57} Ode to Spring {58} A Heron {59} Eloquent Autumn {60} In a Waking Dream?

Download or read book Seeing the Light written by Thomas DeGloma and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chorus of the Christian hymn “Amazing Grace” reads, “I once was lost, but now am found, / Was blind but now I see.” Composed by a minister who formerly worked as a slave trader, the song expresses his experience of divine intervention that ultimately caused him to see the error of his ways. This theme of personal awakening is a feature of countless stories throughout history, where the “lost” and the “blind” are saved from darkness and despair by suddenly seeing the light. In Seeing the Light, Thomas DeGloma explores such accounts of personal awakening, in stories that range from the discovery of a religious truth to remembering a childhood trauma to embracing a new sexual orientation. He reveals a common social pattern: When people discover a life-changing truth, they typically ally with a new community. Individuals then use these autobiographical stories to shape their stances on highly controversial issues such as childhood abuse, war and patriotism, political ideology, human sexuality, and religion. Thus, while such stories are seemingly very personal, they also have a distinctly social nature. Tracing a wide variety of narratives through nearly three thousand years of history, Seeing the Light uncovers the common threads of such stories and reveals the crucial, little-recognized social logic of personal discovery.

Download or read book Tribute to Mentors and Friends written by Art Aeon and published by AEON PRESS, Halifax, NS, Canada. This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a story about a foreign student who strove to study biophysics under the guidance of renowned scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and then pursued postdoctoral training in neuroscience at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. Later, he worked on brain research as a faculty at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It aims to make a belated yet respectful and heartfelt tribute to his revered and beloved mentors who have inspired and wisely guided the humble foreign student and his dear, kind friends who helped the alien stranger find a new home in this New World. It is a retrospective reflection of long-past events late in the narrator’s life. It was primarily based on his fragmentary shorthand diaries, scribbled on small notepads. The letters from his mentors in biophysics, molecular biology, and neuroscience were quoted in the text as they were vital to overcoming the long hesitation in writing this reflection.

Download or read book Du Fu with his Last Pilgrim written by Art Aeon and published by AEON PRESS, Halifax, NS, Canada. This book was released on with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Du Fu [杜 甫] with his Last Pilgrim is a fictional narrative poem about the poetry and life of Dù Fǔ [杜 甫] (712-770), the great Chinese poet, revered as the ‘Poet-Saint.’ It unfolds imaginary dialogues between Du Fu and a fictional character, called ‘Bright Moon’: An earnest young admirer of Du Fu, who visits the sick, frail poet stranded on his worn boat-hut adrift the Yangtze River on his final day. Entreated by Bright Moon, who wishes to be his new pupil, Du Fu reminisces about his happy youth, how he studied poetry, and recites classic poems of Lǐ Bái [李 白] (701-762), Wáng Wéi [王 維] (701 -761), and Táo​ Yuān​ Míng [陶 淵 明] (365–427) for his new pupil to appreciate. Du Fu relates to the new pupil his indignations, frustrations, agonies, and utter despairs on vile corrupted rulers and his sincere and compassionate sympathy for the helpless, innocent common people by recounting his own experiences, which he had bravely revealed in his heart-rending and moving ballads. Suddenly, sick and frail Du Fu collapses and swoons. When he recovers, he relates his mysterious dream to his elated pupil: Li Bai came to see Du Fu on his boat; they celebrated their blissful reunion by exchanging poetic chants. The full moon was rising on the Yangtze River. Unexpectedly, Li Bai jumped off the skiff, as if he tried to soar up to the moon. Then Du Fu awoke from the strange dream. When he finishes recalling his dream, a bright shooting star falls. Du Fu blesses Bright Moon to write pure earnest poems deep from his heart and soul; he gently passes away in peace.

Download or read book Last Dialogue of Socrates written by Art Aeon and published by AEON PRESS, Halifax, NS, Canada. This book was released on with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last Dialogue of Socrates is a fictional narrative poem in the tercet stanzas. It sings of an imaginary dialogue between the character Xanthippe, the widow of Socrates, and the character Plato who visits Xanthippe soon after the execution of his revered mentor in Athens. The situation in this story is the same as that in Phaedo of the historic philosopher Plato (423-347 BCE): On his last day in the Athenian prison, what things Socrates discussed with his devoted friends and how he met his death. But the content of the present fiction is substantially different from Plato’s Phaedo: The main topic of Plato’s Phaedo is Socrates’ arguments for the immortality of the soul. In this fiction, the character Socrates is portrayed to discuss various topics: On the nature of death; On the meanings of mystic words such as, ‘soul’, ‘immortality’, ‘gods’, ‘muses’, etc.; On the nature of justice; On the ethical problems of the Olympian gods as depicted by Homer, Hesiod, and other great Greek poets in their epics and tragedies. Socrates introduces the profound and revolutionary philosophic ideas of Xenophanes (c. 570- c. 475 BCE) who criticized Homer and Hesiod for their portrayal of the Olympian gods as humanlike and immoral. After discussions on the impossibility for any human to know the true nature of deity, they examine the tragedy Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus (c. 525- c. 455 BCE) to discuss the topic of divine justice. In time, the jailor comes in and sends away everyone except Xanthippe. Socrates takes a nap before his execution. When he wakes up, he relates to Xanthippe his mysterious last dream: How he happened to meet Prometheus, the compassionate saviour of the mankind from the Zeus’ plan of their extermination; how he repented to Prometheus for the people’s vile bigotry in disrespect of their saviour; how he learned the deep mystery of the vast cosmic drama of the universe. At sunset, Socrates thanks Xanthippe for her devotion, prays to Athena for the protection of his beloved family and dedicates his spirit to Prometheus. Then he drinks the poison in composure and meets his death in peace. Thus, Xanthippe finishes her recollection of the final day of Socrates. Deeply moved, Plato vows to Xanthippe that he will devote his life to studying what Socrates taught, and to immortalize his ideals by writing them into books for all mankind to study.

Download or read book Pilgrimage into Classics written by Art Aeon and published by AEON PRESS, Halifax, NS, Canada. This book was released on with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pilgrimage into Classics is a story about a former student of physics who strove to glimpse into the classic literature and arts late in the journey of his life. It is a retrospective reflection of the narrator’s personal experiences, primarily based on his private diaries, many decades later. It comprises three parts: [1] Sabbatical Leave at Cambridge University in 1987 [2] Excerpting some Episodes from Classic Books [3] Writing Reveries Inspired by Classic Books

Download or read book Awakening to One s Conscience written by Art Aeon and published by AEON PRESS, Halifax, NS, Canada. This book was released on with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awakening to One’s Conscience: Inner Journey into Human Nature {3} by Art Aeon is a fictional narrative poem in the tercet stanza. It unfolds imaginary dialogues between the character Homer-Outis, the bard of The Odyssey, and the character Odysseus, the protagonist of The Odyssey, in a numinous dream of the epic poet. Following Helen’s crucial revelation of the human causes of the Trojan War at her death, Odysseus and Penelope take on intrepid adventures to the ruins of Troy. On the way, they meet the characters Idomeneus in Crete, Diomedes at sea, Chryseis in Thebe, Tecmessa, and Telamon in Troy. Overcoming many formidable adversities, Odysseus and Penelope eventually fulfill Helen’s last wish to be united with Paris in Troy, even as ashes. But they are captured by the new Trojan king, Helenus. In magnanimous foresight, Helenus sets free his worst foe Odysseus to serve Aethon, a holy sage at the shrine in Mt. Ida. Odysseus pursues a new life as a humble hermit with sincere repentance of his past life. Penelope becomes a trusty friend to the queen Andromache in Helenus’s new kingdom. Eventually, Odysseus finds a lad, who is identified as the son of Helen by Paris, called Ganymede. He succeeds to Helenus’s kingdom. After Aethon’s death, Penelope succeeds him as the new spiritual leader in Mount Ida. Odysseus leads an international school in Mount Ida, dedicated to training young future leaders of peoples for enlightenment, peace, and prosperity of humanity. Odysseus relates to Homer-Outis what he and Penelope learned from wise Aethon about the wisdom and theology of ancient Egypt. They realize that personified deities are not real entities but mere wishful illusions, invented by humans in their minds. Eventually, Homer-Outis becomes enlightened; he confesses to Odysseus that he has been misled in proud vanity to follow guileful minstrels who abused hoax ‘muses’ as their poetic conceits to justify their travesties of absurd divine affairs. He vows to sing of the plain truth deep from his pure conscience without the poetic conceit of hoax ‘muses.’ Odysseus and Homer-Outis become mysteriously transfigured into one enlightened being. At this moment, the earnest and conscientious bard Homer-Outis wakes up from his spiritual dream, inspired afresh to write a new epic: Inner Journey into Human Nature.

Download or read book Journey of Life on Earth written by Art Aeon and published by AEON PRESS, Halifax, NS, Canada. This book was released on with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey of Life on Earth: Conversing with Dante in Dream {2} is the middle part (Tale Two) of a fictional narrative poem in the tercet stanza. It unfolds an imaginary conversation between two characters in a dream: A sincere heathen dreamer and the spirit of his revered poet, Dante (1265- 1321): the author of The Divine Comedy. The present work was inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy to follow its form and spirit as much as it may be feasible. Song 1: The Beginning of Each Individual’s Life Song 2: The Early Dark Journey of Our Life Song 3: Functional Structure of the Genome Song 4: Enzymes Read and Use the Genetic Information Song 5: Molecular Drama of Gene Expression Song 6: Editing and Using the Genetic Information Song 7: Spontaneous Changes of the Genome Song 8: Evolution of Diverse Organisms on Earth Song 9: Emergence of Humankind Song 10: Artistic Creativity of Early Humans Song 11: Functional Organization of the Human Brain Song 12: Neurons and their Functional Synaptic Networks Song 13: Cognitive Functions of the Human Brain Song 14: On Human Communication Song 15: Emergence of Civilizations Song 16: The Epic of Gilgamesh Song 17: In Search for Objective and Universal Laws of Nature

Download or read book Mystery of Dao written by Art Aeon and published by AEON PRESS, Halifax, NS, Canada. This book was released on with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery of Dao [道] is a narrative poem in the tercet stanza. It unfolds a private, personal tale of a conscientious wayfarer who tries to find possible relevance of the ancient Chinese books of wisdom on the mysterious and esoteric Dao [道] in the mundane journey of our workaday life. The tale has two parts: Song 1: Inner Voice of a Brook is a simple fable in which a man converses with a brook. It was inspired by Dao De Jing [道德經]—attributed to the legendary Old Sage: Lao Zi [老子] (6th-5th Century BCE). Song 2: Fables of a Dreaming Butterfly is a fable in which the ancient Chinese sage, Zhuang Zhou, transformed as a dreaming butterfly, converses with a rose. It was inspired by the Inner Chapters of Zhuangzi [莊子]—attributed to Zhuang Zhou [莊周] (c.369 – c.286 BCE).

Download or read book Tragic Comedies of Humans written by Art Aeon and published by AEON PRESS, Halifax, NS, Canada. This book was released on with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tragic Comedies of Humans: Following Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus” is a drama about the Greek mythological character Oedipus in the tercet stanza. The play unfolds an imaginary trial of Oedipus at the divine court of the final judgment of the dead in Hades; how he is absolved from crimes he had committed inadvertently to avoid what the fake oracles, falsely attributed to Apollo by his vile human foes. Thus acquitted, Oedipus is invited by Apollo to re-enact his past in a play, Tragic Comedies of Humans, to be performed in Olympus for the gods to watch and appreciate. But Oedipus politely declines it as he wishes to transcend into nobody. After Oedipus’s awe-inspiring sublime transcendence into nothingness at peace, Apollo gives up his plan in despair. Then Hermes offers to Apollo that he will assume the crucial tragic role of Oedipus to perform the play in Olympus.

Download or read book Virgil s last dream of Aeneas and Homer written by Art Aeon and published by AEON PRESS, Halifax, NS, Canada. This book was released on with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil’s Last Dream of Aeneas and Homer by Art Aeon is a fictional narrative poem in the tercet stanza. It unfolds the imaginary dialogues between Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE), the first Roman emperor, and Varius Rufus (74-14 BCE), a literary executor of the great Roman poet, Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 BCE), known as Virgil. Varius reports Virgil’s untimely death to Augustus and reveals that he keeps Virgil’s unpublished manuscript of The Aeneid. At Augustus’s request, Varius relates a succinct gist of the first six books of The Aeneid and what Virgil told him at his death about his numinous last dream on how the spirit of Aeneas guided Virgil to Dis to meet with the spirit of Homer, and what they discussed on the epic poetry: In his dream, Virgil prayed to muse Calliope for inspiration to bring his Aeneid to a meaningful conclusion. Calliope suggested that Virgil invoke Aeneas to guide him for a supernatural adventure to meet Homer in Dis and ask for expert advice in improving his new epic. At Virgil’s sincere invocation, Aeneas’s spirit appeared to him. Eventually, Aeneas guided Virgil to the palace of the queen of the dead, Proserpina. In an impromptu symposium, held by Proserpina at the plea of Aeneas, Virgil met Homer-Meles, the author of The Iliad, and Homer-Outis, the author of The Odyssey. Virgil recited his Aeneid for his revered Greek poets. After their earnest and enlightening discussions, the Greek bards convinced Virgil that his Aeneid was as good as a human could achieve. Proserpina announced that Virgil’s visit to Dis was overdue; he should return to the world of the living. At that point, Virgil awakes from his numinous dream and finds his dear friend Varius, waiting by his bed. He realizes that the time has come for him to depart from this world to Dis. Virgil requests Varius to publish The Aeneid as it is and impart his dream of Aeneas and Homer to others. Then Virgil gently passes away in peace.

Download or read book Mystery of the Universe written by Art Aeon and published by AEON PRESS, Halifax, NS, Canada. This book was released on with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery of the Universe: Conversing with Dante in Dream {3} is the final part of a fictional narrative poem in the tercet stanza. It unfolds an imaginary conversation between two characters in a dream: A sincere heathen dreamer and the spirit of his revered poet, Dante (1265- 1321): the author of the Divine Comedy. It was inspired by the Divine Comedy of Dante to follow its form and spirit as much as it may be feasible by a novice. It consists of 15 topics: Song 1: Movements of the Earth in the Solar System Song 2: Newton’s Laws of Motion and Theory of Gravitation and Rules of Reasoning. Song 3: On the Nature of Stars in the Sky Song 4: On the Nature of Matter and Energy Song 5: The Structure of Observed Part of the Universe Song 6: Current Hypotheses on the Origin and Evolution of the Universe Song 7: Questions on the “Big Bang” Hypothesis Song 8: “Ex Nihilo, Nihil Fit.” Song 9: On the Nature of Time Song 10: Measuring the Time Past Song 11: Mother Earth: The Planet of Life Song 12: What is Life? Song 13: Are other Civilizations in the Universe? Song 14: Hymn to the Sacred Conscience of Human Song 15: Dante’s Advice to the Dreamer at Farewell

Download or read book H lderlin s Hymn The Ister written by Martin Heidegger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Heidegger's 1942 lecture course interprets Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn "The Ister" within the context of Hölderlin's poetic and philosophical work, with particular emphasis on Hölderlin's dialogue with Greek tragedy. Delivered in summer 1942 at the University of Freiburg, this course was first published in German in 1984 as volume 53 of Heidegger's Collected Works. Revealing for Heidegger's thought of the period are his discussions of the meaning of "the political" and "the national," in which he emphasizes the difficulty and the necessity of finding "one's own" in and through a dialogue with "the foreign." In this context Heidegger reflects on the nature of translation and interpretation. A detailed reading of the famous chorus from Sophocles' Antigone, known as the "ode to man," is a key feature of the course.

Download or read book Following Homer s Odyssey written by Art Aeon and published by AEON PRESS, Halifax, NS, Canada. This book was released on with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Homer’s Odyssey: Inner Journey into Human Nature {1} by Art Aeon is a fictional narrative poem in the tercet stanzas. It imagines a numinous dream of the character Homer-Outis (the bard of the Odyssey) in which he converses with the shade of his revered ancestor, Odysseus (the protagonist of the Odyssey), on important events following his return to Ithaca. To avoid awful armed conflicts against the revolting families of the slain suitors, Odysseus takes a life-long exile. His devoted wise wife, Penelope, decides to join with Odysseus; they transform the fateful exile into the meaningful adventures to learn of the mystery of human nature. This narrative poem consists of two parts: Book 1: Into a Dream of Homer-Outis Book 2: The Exile of Odysseus with Penelope Following Homer’s Odyssey is the beginning part {1} of an imaginary epic poem: Inner Journey into Human Nature.

Download or read book The Sunday school union hymn book written by Leeds Sunday school union and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: