{"product_id":"twelve-sonnets-a-defense-of-spirit-paperback","title":"Twelve Sonnets: A Defense of Spirit - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKevin Farnham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDale Farnham\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDale Farnham\u003c\/b\u003e (Cover Design by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwelve Sonnets: A Defense of Spirit \u003c\/em\u003eis a prosimetrum, a collection of poems alternating with counterpoint prose that connects the poems and amplifies their content. The subject matter is Nature, Physics, Spirit, Consciousness, and romantic love. The book argues that the idea that spirit does not exist is a self-contradiction, argues that modern Physics proves that the Universe is not a machine, and illustrates spirit in action both in Nature and within our own being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdditional description and excerpts are available at EverushBooks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpts\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy viewpoint was forever changed when I read Owen Barfield's \u003cem\u003eSaving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry.\u003c\/em\u003e Barfield points out that science, as a discipline, has a very specific and limited role: to identify those aspects of Nature that can be represented as mechanism... To say nature is a machine and nothing more is akin to molding a golden calf and saying \"This is God.\" It's idolatry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe books! O, shining books I'd write for you: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof courtship, wedding, children, nature's peace--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etaut words creating light without surcease, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat every moment soul's deep core renew!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSad form: cross centuries deep you've watched and pined\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas logic's triumph warped the Western mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday we struggle to experience the spirit that's in Nature because the universe-as-mechanism logic in our minds influences the perceptual images that are formed within us. It's as though our modern scientific thinking is a lens that, like Sylvia Plath's bell jar, distorts our vision of the true Nature that surrounds us, filters away its life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo stately elders grace our spare expanse;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etheir branchlets, twined, caress and sway, impelled\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby summer's aether: splendrous pantheon!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust so, our naked souls embrace and dance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein light that breathes within: our spirits meld!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpirit's validity has been reborn: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhysics has proven life unmeasurable--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNewton's machine lies slain. And love's alive!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eManipulating macroscopic things, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econtrolling magnets, electricity, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einduced a smug presumption: that we know.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeneath the data, Nature's secret sings!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut, hidden in the quanta, Nature teems, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot bound by any human formula, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebegetting life with smiling reticence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNature cloaks itself in a kind of mist when we attempt to penetrate its full reality with modern logic's rigid gaze. What's on the other side we cannot know--except to know that it's somehow intimately related to our own being, our own reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou shun yourself, child, when you castigate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe past--the book of human memory, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea font of sight for those who would be taught.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWords can be conceived as being little containers of spirit that have evolved across the ages. True speech is spirit revealed. Lies are spirit (and life) destroyed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur Winter now approaches, precipice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewe didn't foresee. Our legacy? A squall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat confiscates our children's wherewithal!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStill, as we die, love, let's embrace, and kiss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen midnight comes, our lives and limbs embrace--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarmonious handfasting--our souls enlace!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 58\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.14 x 7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 23, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722138357823,"sku":"9780977883363","price":13.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/158ac5337b85c6e4e7a6d0b132d9bb29.webp?v=1765094737","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/twelve-sonnets-a-defense-of-spirit-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}