The great questions and passions of life unraveled and stitched together in poetic verse to form a flag which all may wave as one! Love of Wisdom is one philosopher's quest to shed light upon the dark corners of conjecture, offering insight on many matters which have long been deliberated and disputed amongst mankind, and which matter most to life as a whole: matters of spirituality and its uniting voice of love shared by all manifestations of the one truest self; matters of injustice on the fronts of religion, politics, commerce, ownership and the consolidation and exclusion underpinning most of the evil in the world; matters of ego, romance, selfishness, desire, suffering and much more. The hope is that this book may not only entertain you with its rhymes but expand your heart and mind through its exploration of substantive ideas, offering answers to some of the questions which trouble so many and thereby helping the reader shed some of their confusion as well as some of the confining, misleading precepts preserved from the past and employed by contemporary conquerors and exploiters to keep us small and divided and thereby easy to control and take advantage of. May these poems usher you toward the championing of concepts and principles which unite and lift us up toward solidarity of purpose and higher shared potential, each of us playing an indispensable role in fostering the greatest total quality of life for all life as unique versions of the one fundamentally inseparable, eternal source of all things.
About the Author: Born in the Redwoods of coastal Northern California in the little blue collar town of Fort Bragg, my early years were trouble-free times of active, youthful exuberance. I was very much a rural kid, playing with friends, catching lizards and snakes, exploring the forests, shooting bb guns, swimming in the river and ocean and eating blackberries off the bush until my hands were stained purplish-black and my stomach ached. Eventually my father was transferred to a more urban area of CA and I gradually transformed into a video gamer with a very strong creative streak. In my adolescence I used to concoct elaborate games for friends that were engaging enough to capture their attention for hours on end, with some of these games centered around toys, and others, the more popular ones, put to paper, which I called "paper games." As I matured I came to the same conclusion that many young, observant people come to: money is the root of freedom, and I had to do everything possible to put myself in the position to have what I wanted, so I could do and be who I wanted. This culturally-pervasive mindset dominated my outlook through most of college, during which I attended the University of California at Santa Barbara and studied Business Economics, and afterwards during my foray into the real estate business. I was very much motivated by these conventional ambitions and, through them, highly self-motivated to pursue what most consider the hallmarks of "success: " a lucrative career, the socioeconomic rank and all the trappings. I'd begun developing doubts during my last couple collegiate years, however, that following this traditional path was what I was meant to do; that it was the best use of my abilities and that, perhaps, it contributed to the problems of the world. Later, as my spiritual consciousness grew and I began to sense that 'listening to your heart' was more than mere fleeting emotion, but a tapping into a truer, fuller form of self, my collegiate doubts began to crystalize along with my ideology and convictions, and everything changed for me. I came into myself and began to harness a sense of purpose, knowing that I was meant to translate the spiritual messages I received which, combined with my intellectual inspection of the world, lead me to some profound conclusions about the nature of existence and the greedy heart of western culture compromising our greatest collective potential. My books of poetry, blog and a coming novel offer my proposed solutions