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Loneliness and Revelation: A Study of the Sacred Paperback – November 16, 2010

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4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
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Everyone experiences loneliness in their lives. Yet most people are secretly afraid of it, and will do nearly anything to avoid it. Few are willing to talk about it at all. This book shows that loneliness is not simply a social phenomenon, nor a medical condition. Rather, it is an existential condition of life. So you can?t turn to other people, or true love, for a solution. Nor can you turn to God, for God is probably lonelier than you are! But loneliness is not evil. Indeed it can be a source of profound spiritual insight. Great religious heroes like Moses, Jesus, Buddha, and Mohammad made their most important spiritual revelations in solitude. This book offers a new understanding of the idea of Revelation, as a way of being in the world which gives spiritual significance to the arts, human relationships, love, and indeed to loneliness itself. It has four simple but far-reaching principles: I am here; this is what I am; and what I am is beautiful! Is anyone else out there?
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    160 pages
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    Moon Books
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    November 16, 2010
  5. Dimensions
    5.59 x 0.4 x 8.58 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1846943558
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1846943553
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Moon Books (November 16, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1846943558
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1846943553
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.59 x 0.4 x 8.58 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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    Brendan Myers, Ph.D., is originally from a small town in Ontario Canada. In 2006 he earned his Ph.D in philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Brendan is the author of numerous fiction and nonfiction books, and his work has been featured by Celtic cultural associations, interfaith groups, political activist groups, and humanist societies around the world. Presently he serves as a professor at Heritage College, in Gatineau, Quebec. He loves fairy tales and space exploration, and he lives in a library next door to a forest.

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R. Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2010
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This is an excellent book, very thought provoking and well worth the price! It's not a huge book, but also not full of "fluff" to take up pages. Don't let the title fool you. Yes, it is about loneliness, but as a human condition that's normal, and how so much of what we do and say is our way of communicating with the world that "hey I'm here!" I found out about this book from a Pagan blog (the Wild Hunt) but found this book to be relavent to anyone- Pagan, Christian, Agnostic, ect. For me at least, it was one of those books that you read through first- then go back and slowly ponder each chapter.
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Arie Farnam
4.0 out of 5 stars It is beautifully written. It has great nuggets hidden within it
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2016
Here are more words by the author of The Other Side of Virtue.

It is hard to give such a huge book four stars. It seems that an author putting out such immense effort should get five stars on general principle. There is much value within these pages. Many years of scholarship and deep understanding are reflected in the pages. The wisdom of many faiths are woven here, certainly not leaving the old Pagan traditions to languish.

However, I must make some distinction. To me The Other Side of Virtue is a life-changing book, a book I hope each of my children willl read at some point as adults. A book I'll buy them and read to them if necessary. It's the kind of book I would pick up and read from at random. It's truly beyond spectacular.

I am allergic to gurus of any sort and many could set Brendan Myers up in that light. But The Other Side of Virtue earned him out of the pretender category. Loneliness and Revelation isn't quite in that category. It is beautifully written. It has great nuggets hidden within it. But it also reads like the inspirations of many times, as if it was collected from writings and journals over years of solitary contemplation and study. It certainly has spirit and yet it does not grip in that intense way. I cannot read it in one sitting as I did with The Other Side of Virtue. There are sometimes too many pretty words and not enough clarity. Sometimes it is a matter of reading for the aesthetic rather than drilling down to the core of truth and spirit. Only a little and it is no great sin. But it ears the book four stars instead of five.

For those who wish to study Myer's ideas further, this is a valuable addition.
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Holli
5.0 out of 5 stars Myers shows that philosophy is alive and well
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2011
Ironically, reading a book is something one must do alone. "Loneliness and Revelation" is a gentle, but deceptively courageous, venture into the one fear that most terrifies the majority of humans. Early in the text, Myers writes, "The great task of crafting a good and beautiful life cannot properly begin until we honestly recognize the occasions of solitude in our lives." For those who think of philosophy as the domain of dusty volumes in ancient languages, Myers proves that careful examination of the inner life is just as lively and essential to our time and culture as it was in millenia past. And he does it, I might add, with a graceful writing style that is just as accessible to the novice or non-academic as to the scholarly reader.
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