Loneliness and Revelation: A Study of the Sacred

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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 solutio...more

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Published November 16th 2010 by John Hunt Publishing

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Mar 08, 2012 Wicked Podcast rated it 4 of 5 stars

Loneliness and Revelation examines loneliness as an existential condition of life. Through a study of loneliness through a series of meditations, the author examines how individuals and societies through history have dealt with this shared phenomenon and how those coping methods develop into a need for 'Revelation', hypothesizing that this Revelation offers spiritual significance to the arts, relationships, loves and loneliness itself.

First, let me say that it took awhile for us to get through t...more Loneliness and Revelation examines loneliness as an existential condition of life. Through a study of loneliness through a series of meditations, the author examines how individuals and societies through history have dealt with this shared phenomenon and how those coping methods develop into a need for 'Revelation', hypothesizing that this Revelation offers spiritual significance to the arts, relationships, loves and loneliness itself.

First, let me say that it took awhile for us to get through this book, but not for lack of quality. The book comes in under 170 pages but the length of the read is expanded when you realize how much is packed into those pages. We found ourselves stopping after each short meditation to examine the arguments and thesis presented in each one, feeling compelled to examine how we react to loneliness and reveal ourselves to the universe in many of the ways discussed in the narrative.

Almost immediately our minds were afire with all the ways in which the experience of Loneliness is ritualized in our spiritual experience. From going out into the wilderness or to the top of the mountain to find spiritual enlightenment or the rites of passages such as the vision quest or the walk-a-about.

If you've never read one of Brendan Myers' books, you are doing yourself a disservice. If you have, you'll recognize here his distinctive voice that blends scholarly insight into very straightforward, everyman sensibilities. Loneliness and Revelation is not philosophy for the classroom, it speaks to the experience, the gnosis of everyday life and we recommend it for pagan and non-pagan alike. Whether read in solitude, or with a partner, or as a coven, the book will encourage discussion and expression.

Indeed, Loneliness and Revelation would be perfect for any spiritual conscious book group. We would love to see the book published with that use in mind, perhaps with book group discussion topics and questions or with an a companion workbook for coven or church groups. Certainly it would appeal to Unitarian Universalists as well as pagans, but we think anyone wishing a deeper understanding of the human condition or spiritual interest would enjoy it as well.

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