What pleasure just to baskin ancient tree-light, Puck-likepropped against a trunk beneath the boughsthat sway this forest family.....What can be said about a poem better than reading it? This collection of about fifty 'lights' is drawn from material written between 1962 and 1988 but mostly during the period 1965-75 (the author's twenties). It celebrates nature's beauty, romance, music, sex, mystic love and even the sad demise of steam engines!As rega...

This book follows a 10-lecture course given at U3AC, Cambridge UK. It examines the physical facts of physics, psychology, biology and community (ecology and sociology) along with the metaphysical fact of information. But is this, information, really immaterial and separate in character from material phenomena? Is it, like such non-conscious phenomena, a basic element of nature? If so, then a fresh perspective, cosmic in extent, emerges. This perspective is called holism; and holism is here...

A good vehicle for a whole philosophical adventure turns out to be a Theory of Opposites called Natural Dialectic. 'Dialectic' involves to-fro interaction between opposing poles of either thought or things; 'Natural' means associated with no particular social, religious or cultural structure; and Natural Dialectic's primary aim is, in the words of Albert Einstein, seeking the simplest possible scheme of thought that will bind together the observed facts. Such culture-neutral philosophy is ...

Are you agnostic? Religious? Or, by default, of atheistic/ materialistic faith? Whichever mind-set you inhabit, this book is for you. Science and the Soul interprets the world in terms of a framework called Natural Dialectic. Within this 'philosophical machine' it coordinates the major scientific disciplines of physics, psychology, biology and information technology - but not necessarily with conventional results. For example, according to materialism's modernistic view everything is physi...

This volume is the umbilical offshoot of its 'mother book', Science and the Soul. Both are truly original works. We begin by linking with the latter. Then, using facts from palaeoanthropology, biology (classical and molecular), information theory, design theory and philosophy, A Mutant Ape? assesses the two main interpretations of your human origin.The simple difference between these interpretations is identified. So also are the differences between man and ape. Th...

This work is updated version of the original ground-breaking Adam and Evolution. It not only heavily criticises neo-Darwinian orthodoxy in all its various fields but also provides a logical, alternative perspective to the question of life's origin. Its premise is that matter (and therefore any biological vehicle) is a form of non-conscious energy but code is an expression of thought. Matter itself, having no reason, cannot produce codified information. Does a biological body, perhaps even ...

‘Potted Grammar’? ‘Natural Dialectic?’ This book is a companion to ‘Science and the Soul’ whose subtitle reads ‘facts and philosophy translated into Natural Dialectic’. It extracts, for clarity, the framework of that book; it thereby simplifies a model of creation that is ancient and, in scientific terms, bang up-to-date. After an explanation of the way that Natural Dialectic works, the narrative turns to explain how an orderly act of creation is expressed and physical, psychological and b...

This is the epub version of With Ease.Who doesn't like to take it easy? Five minutes to admire a painting, ten on an arousing piece of music or several hours before the magic of a movie screen. Passive absorption. Passing sensations. But is it possible to understand science and philosophy with quite such ease? Harder going needs a helping hand. Some students and readers say that, first time through, an easy draft is needed.This book is therefore, intended, using 170 questio...

Jayanta Mahapatra needs no introduction.Perhaps any discussion on Indian English Poetry is incomplete without reference to his poeticalworks. Mahapatra holds the distinction of being the first Indian English poet to have received the Sahitya Akademi Award (1981) for the current book "Relationship". "Relationship" reveals Jayanta Mahapatra's great efforts to transform his 'mute inglorious' sufferings which he connects with the sufferings of his nameless ancestors whose great s...

Poems of living and loving from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri.Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist and poet, Ben Okri, explores the beauty contained in each one of us – the freedom of our spirit, the child within. He recalls the death of his father, the sacrifices of his mother, the hidden river of Edinburgh, falling in love.He writes about Virgil and Mozambique...

However grand or short our tale, it is the moment we set sail, when all the former pale away, a fresh new wind come into play, that lets us see in grand array: it was the entire journey, that made our perfect day! Hurry, scurry, there now in summer's flurry come and walk with me, and on a mountain see, the view eclipse magically, the ardour of our century.

There are some very nice poems to be plucked from the air. Howon Lee has plucked some of them from the air and then put them onto pages. Then, he sent them to a magical factory full of gnomes to transcribe them onto the underside of some leaves. Then, somebody beat some sense into him and he wrote them down in Word documents. Here they are.