The Simultaneous Mountain: Essays on Mysticism and Poetry

Victor M. Depta

Blair Mountain Press

These prose-poems are a meditation on the human spirit, the natural world, and mystical enlightenment. The author s related works are: The Silence of Blackberries The Simultaneous Mountain: Essays on Poetry and Mysticism The Dancing Dragon Poems Twofold Consciousness: Poetry and Essays on Mysticism Letters to Buddha Native Americans named the first full moon of the month after the primary characteristic of that month. Strawberries are the earliest fruit to ripen, thus the name of the moon. On June 20, 2016, the summer solstice and the full moon coincided, the first time that has happened since 1948. In England, the strawberry moon is called the rose moon. In China, it s called the lotus moon. I think the only odd word used in the paragraphs is noumenon (including the forms noumena and noumenal ) which points to a physical reality beyond our five senses, experientially unknowable though comprehendible rationally. I often use the word as a synonym for the reality experienced during enlightenment. This definition is from The New Oxford American Dictionary: noumenon in Kantian philosophy, a thing as it is in itself, as distinct from a thing as it is knowable by the senses through phenomenal attributes. A brief explanation might be necessary for my viewpoint on the human psyche: 1) the bodily self with its memories and intentional states; 2) consciousness of phenomena, shared by degrees with all animate life; 3) self-consciousness and the symbolic representation of reality unique to us as human beings; and 4) pure consciousness, which is the mental capability for experiencing the noumena of reality.

The Strawberry Moon

<p>In the venerable tradition of elderly lady sleuths Jane Marple, Maud Silver, Sharon McCone, Mrs. Pollifax we at Blair Mountain Press are pleased to introduce Dr. Ethel Gooch (we like the odd and slightly uneuphonious name), a professor of English at a university in eastern Kentucky. She and Aubrey, a local student, are intrigued by an apparent suicide of the wife of the English Department chair. When those machinations are cleared up, Ethel retires to San Francisco where Aubrey her student friend and his friend, Arne are students at San Francisco State University. Through Arne, they are introduced to Amahl, a wealthy Lebanese, and there the second intrigue begins. The book is called What They Yearn For (a nice old-fashioned word, yearn ). In Volume 1 are the first two mysteries, The Lady Without a Purse and How Many Miles to Babylon. Volume 2, which will be published shortly by the Press, will include Where to Run, Where to Hide and The Temple of Scattered Lives. We hope you will enjoy all four of the mysteries, what with their aura of the Appalachian mountains and the fame of the city by the bay.</p>

What They Yearn For Volume 1

What They Yearn For, Volume 2

<p>This book is a collection involving a boy, set in the 1940s/50s, in the coal fields of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. Jake is shunted from family to family during his upbringing, with situations involving both humor and pathos. The theme involves a sociological overview of Appalachia during the period of his growing up.</p>

The Adventures of Jake: A Coal Camp Boy

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The Simultaneous Mountain: Essays on Mysticism and Poetry

The Strawberry Moon

What They Yearn For Volume 1

What They Yearn For, Volume 2

The Adventures of Jake: A Coal Camp Boy