Brian George

Masks of Origin

Regression in the Service of Omnipotence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

We are, I believe, as supernatural as we are natural. Our home is the sum-total of all possible realities. When we act, we act both in this world and the next.¿¿ Brian George's debut collection of personal essays invites the reader on a journey beyond the normal categories of space, time, and narrative structure, toward a further shore of multidimensional and more-than-human experience. These are "essays" in the sense of attempts or explorations of a subject which is too vast, and too profound, yet also, paradoxically, too familiar (to some deepest part of us) to be exhausted by any one expression or approach. As George puts it, "The book is not quite a collection of essays, or the fragments of an autobiography, or a record of inter-dimensional journeys, or a work of metaphysics, or a sociopolitical critique, or an attempt to formulate a contemporary mythology-although it has elements of all of these." To read Masks of Origin, and to re-read it perhaps, and to live with all that it reveals, conceals, and intimates, is to risk encountering the unfathomable within ourselves as much as in the art. As George recursively unravels the contours of his peculiar spiritual landscape, we begin to see aspects our own world history and generational trauma transfigured-as in a psychedelic mirror-in a startling new light. Yet the only drug administered here is the noötropic of poetic language. (You may still wish to avoid operating heavy machinery while under the influence of this book.) With penetrating insight into the soul of post-industrial America and a rare ability to invoke transpersonal states of knowing (even accompanying the thrill of the unknown) in the reader, and with a metaphysical bravado that any dada surrealist might envy, there is also-how to say this?-a down-to-earthness about George that softens our defenses. In Masks of Origin, we meet the artist not only as a cosmic traveler and esoteric yogi, but also as a schoolboy, a son, a rebel, a lover, a teacher, a friend/enemy, and a family man-in short, as a person with adventurous goals but few pretenses. As we follow George in the probing of his origins, we may find that we have suddenly drawn much closer to our own.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Untimely Books
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9780971663589
• ISBN-10: 0971663580
• Artikelnr.: 66304354

Autorenporträt

Brian George. Born in 1953 in Surrey, England. Father Keith, an Aeronautical Engineer. Mother Pauline. A Tennis Coach. Had a good normal state education passing enough examinations to be accepted as Navigating Cadet in the British Merchant Navy. This despite being averse to any form of study related activity. Spent a year at The School of Navigation at Warsash, Southampton before being assigned as a cadet on the Blue Star Line vessel 'New Zealand Star on a voyage to New Zealand. A twelve year sea going career followed before coming ashore, getting married (again). Having two children and working for ten years in the Driving Tuition Industry. Returned to things nautical in the early nineteen nineties by joining HMCG, (Her Majesties Coast Guard) as a Watch Officer stationed at the Maritime Rescue Centre in Liverpool, England. Retired at 62 and spent several years living in Crete, returning to the UK in 2018 to help look after elderly parents. Now lives in Norwich, England and Oslo, Norway, maintaining strong connections with Crete. Brian is now seventy years old, but thanks to an active lifestyle doesn't feel a day over eighty five.