Bücher von Traumear

Poems written during a time when unexpected changes occurred in the author's life - which is not to say that misfortune necessarily produces better poetry - except if courageously borne and then at least expressed from the remembering heart.

Conversation, when honestly cultivated, can lead to discoveries. When two or three of us get together in the spirit of truth, we may also find something out about ourselves that is worth knowing and sharing. And those who have a task in life really cannot afford to let their personality go stale.

A critique of society as environmentThere is the society that prepares us for community, but there is also the society that rejects community. In this essay we hope to make the difference more clear in terms of how we behave while we fear for our individuality when we might rise to the occasion of human-natural affinity. The emphasis is placed on our willingness to familiarize ourselves gradually more and more with the content of our desire for communal love in the face of a corporeality based on fear. - I dedicate this book to those who feel they are rejected by society and to those who have opted out of society, and finally to those who practice communal living based on their human-natural affinity and who therefore no longer have a quarrel with society. It is their struggle that is depicted in this book.

A series of one hundred contemporary poems of varying length written in 1980. A quotation from the twenty-fifth poem indicates the nature of the poems: "These are ... proud words / instilled by a harsh environment, / tailored for vexing times / to help see something through.

In an important sense this is a therapeutic book, in that it encourages us to face up to our existential fear while showing us how to go about fearing what needs to be feared, such as any notion at all that death has not been overcome for us. The story is of secondary importance.

Volume 4 of 4 (Book 3 of 3) Two creative young people pool their resources, concentrate on their spiritual development and exercise a remarkable influence on those around them.

Volumes 2 and 3 of 4 (Book 2 of 3) Two creative young people pool their resources, concentrate on their spiritual development and exercise a remarkable influence on those around them.

The spirit today is myth and myth is the spirit. Today is not a day that will one day be yesterday, but today is the day in which we live now, and we are live today, not extinct.World as mythology reveals its innermost secrets, and this is in fact the use of mythology, that it leads us, gently and persuasively, to the heart of that realm where everything that is wanted may be gained merely by asking for it. Also it teaches us how to ask, so that we do not waste time and energy asking for wind when we want power and asking for flame when we want warmth or heat.Far too many of us have made up our minds as to the means to happiness and we ask for those means instead of asking for happiness. So it matters a great deal how we prepare ourselves for the times ahead.The worst scenario is not to love and then not to know we are loved, because then we have no myth as nourishment and none to protect us. Myth nourishes, it repairs, sustains and increases, when we love nonetheless.

A story about a girl coming into her teens. My aim was not merely to entertain but also to stimulate reflection just a little. Certainly children want to grow up but they also need to be raised and for that reason I hope to have added an interest for the thoughtful parental adult.

We moderns are reluctant to accept that a truly creative motivation affectively underlies our various deplorable aggressions and depressions. This sums up our tragic predicament. It is as if a special dispensation were required before we understand reality as not based on appearances but on faith and good spirit. In the presence of those who do understand, we are more likely to catch on, because our depression and aggression rubs off on them and 'infects' them, whereupon they deal with this, rationally, within themselves, before dealing with us then, mercifully. Their ethical behaviour, by personal example and good works, instils in us a desire for moral integrity and ethical power. We gain a sense of, a taste for, the satisfaction from doing good. We become capable of sustaining that extra dimension to our being which corresponds to the foundation of reality.If we choose, we can allow our thought-processes to be schooled as we read this work, so that we may be cleansed of the modern evil that is criticism.

24 Short piano pieces, not very difficult but intricate, shapely, crafted. Really in a class of their own. Sheet music for piano. Should be fun to learn.

57 sonnets that would put us in touch with our creative centre.

Some of these poems were composed out of doors. Most are to some degree instructive. All are written with the intention of drawing us closer to our human-natural centre.

We moderns are reluctant to accept that a truly creative motivation affectively underlies our various deplorable aggressions and depressions. This sums up our tragic predicament. It is as if a special dispensation were required before we understand reality as not based on appearances but on faith and good spirit. In the presence of those who do understand, we are more likely to catch on, because our depression and aggression rubs off on them and 'infects' them, whereupon they deal with this, rationally, within themselves, before dealing with us then, mercifully. Their ethical behaviour, by personal example and good works, instils in us a desire for moral integrity and ethical power. We gain a sense of, a taste for, the satisfaction from doing good. We become capable of sustaining that extra dimension to our being which corresponds to the foundation of reality.If we choose, we can allow our thought-processes to be schooled as we read this work, so that we may be cleansed of the modern evil that is criticism.

The essay 'Our Folk Soul' was conceived as an explo- ration of what had occurred to me for some time as one of two possible ways for us to cooperate with god. My experience of human beings in community taught me that we do not all relate to god in the same way. Simply put, some come to god, others accept god. Some place the emphasis on doing, others on being and behaviour. During the course of this exploration I made some in- teresting discoveries, which persuaded me, in the end, to write an Irrational Ethic, in comparison to the more lengthy exploratory essay on rational ethics I had written many years ago. I hope the reader of these two essays will approach them with an open mind, for they are in no way intended as a contribution to traditional, western, philosophical or theological thought. They make no pretension to aca- demic, orthodox acceptability.