Consider the Blackbird - Gillman, Harvey
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From a lifetime of seeking, Harvey Gillman explores a way to respond to what remains, in spite of everything, a very beautiful and sacred universe. This is a journey through language, using poetry, philosophy, and insights from different religions, graced with the song of a blackbird, who accompanied the author as he wrote the work. Pandemics, civil wars, religious extremism, spilling of blood in the name of sacred and secular causes, destruction of our environment... Why write a book on spirituality and language? Don't we need calls to action, positive plans to change the world? But the way…mehr

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From a lifetime of seeking, Harvey Gillman explores a way to respond to what remains, in spite of everything, a very beautiful and sacred universe. This is a journey through language, using poetry, philosophy, and insights from different religions, graced with the song of a blackbird, who accompanied the author as he wrote the work. Pandemics, civil wars, religious extremism, spilling of blood in the name of sacred and secular causes, destruction of our environment... Why write a book on spirituality and language? Don't we need calls to action, positive plans to change the world? But the way we speak, the way we search for meaning, the way we declare our truths - these are often at the root of such political and spiritual 'dis-ease'. The driving force behind this book is how we can use difference compassionately and with integrity.
Autorenporträt
Harvey Gillman describes himself as a seeker, explorer, and a finder, and something of a heretic. Trained as a modern linguist (French and Italian, with Spanish later), he is fascinated by the challenge of communicating beyond frontiers. As a pilgrim, he has been open to various religious traditions, including Judaism, Buddhism, mystical Christianity and the Quaker way. His quest for the divine is his search for the human, a holistic journey of spirit, soul, and body. He has written poetry for most of his adult life. He sees his poetry as a tribute that word and music pay to silence, where the intellect bows before the intuitive. Epiphanies is an account of his journey.