A Vision Quest

John Dunne calls his latest book A Vision Quest , borrowing the term from Native American tradition where a youth, coming of age, keeps a solitary vigil, seeking spiritual power and knowledge through a vision. Dunne seeks a vision like that of the great circle of love an old Bedouin described to Lawrence of Arabia,"The love is from God and of God and towards God." The modern vision of the world is one of evolution, life arising from matter, intelligence arising from life. The ancient vision was one of emanation, everything cascading down from the One. Dunne imagines bringing the two together into a great circle, everything coming from God and returning to God, where everything is "from God and of God and towards God." This inspirational work features a series of meditations by Dunne, enriched by his wide-ranging insights and quotations from the areas of theology, philosophy, and literature. John Dunne calls his latest book A Vision Quest, borrowing the term from Native American tradition where a youth, coming of age, keeps a solitary vigil, seeking spiritual power and knowledge through a vision. Dunne seeks a vision like that of the great circle of love an old Bedouin described to Lawrence of Arabia, "The love is from God and of God and towards God." The modern vision of the world is one of evolution, life arising from matter, intelligence arising from life. The ancient vision was one of emanation, everything cascading down from the One. Dunne imagines bringing the two together into a great circle, everything coming from God and returning to God, where everything is "from God and of God and towards God."This inspirational work features a series of meditations by Dunne, enriched by his wide-ranging insights and quotations from the areas of theology, philosophy, and literature. Cover Half title Title page Copyright Contents Preface A Vision Quest The Riddle of Eternal Life "Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!" "Tell me where all past years are" "God is spirit" The Practice of the Presence A Vision Quest: Song and Dance Cycle Notes Index of Names When we feel the wonder of existence, looking up at the stars on a summer night, the wonder that all these things are, these worlds that appear as points of light in the night sky, we know "we are too late for the gods," as Martin Heidegger says, "and too early for Being." The Riddle Of Eternal Life -- Am I My World? -- Am I My Time? -- Am I My Body? John S. Dunne. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 125-141) And Index.