Kirjahaku

A "Divine Comedy" for our time will take the readers through the realms of poetry, philosophy, mythology, spirituality, religion, and cosmos. Some may call it an epic journey of mankind; some may find an inspiration to philosophical search for meaning of life; some may experience it as a journey of the soul through spiritual realms in the company of a spiritual Guide similar to Dante`s Divine Comedy. If one wishes to read a book, which may lift the reading experience to an unprecedented height and open up windows of knowledge about philosophies, mythologies, cosmos and our relation to the "Cosmic Being" it will be difficult to find any other book written in recent time which would be more enticing. It will inspire readers to reflect about the meaning of life and seek ways to realize life which may fulfill a greater aspiration. Why as a part of the Universal Man are we all wandering life after life? Are we parts of a greater existence, which is taking shape through us and evolving in the cosmos? Is there any direction towards which our existence is meant to evolve? Is there any God? Does there exist anything beyond the matter-bound existence, which the religious people and mystics have talked about? How one may connect to the spiritual realm? The book will throw lights on many of these important questions.

Good and evil/ right and wrong have been important issues in all cultures and societies during all ages. The perceptions of moral norms differ greatly depending on the environment, economic security, knowledge and information available to the citizens and the overall state of security of life of people. With social evolution the moral behavior also changes its character. The issue of moral has become more precarious during recent social changes brought by the modern consumer culture and the global communication age. The book analyses the history of social evolution and its impact on the perceptions of moral values across the globe. The main enactors in the moral arena are often the people with vested interests in economic and political power. They exploit human psychology of fear for the unknown and the natural instincts to seek security against threats from competing groups. The book reflects on these mechanisms from the perspective of science - especially biology and psychology - and arrives at a complex arena of human behavior full of contradictions and conflicts. The analysis should stimulate free thinking and inspire people to take a fresh look at the understanding of moral questions beyond the prevalent framework of economic and political interests in which values take shape. This constitutes the first part of the book where the author suggests his own way out of the maze. In the second part moral questions are projected through a spiritual perspective, which cannot be subjected to rational arguments. The book is unique in many ways which span from Kantian and Nietzschean moral world to mysticism as the foundation of moral universalism.

God came to give messages to a child that "He" did not exist in the figures of gods and goddesses, which people worshipped around him. Instead, God explained that "He" existed as a mystery, hidden from the world, who could not be seen, felt or touched by any one. Since then the child developed a secret friendship with God. However, there was an understanding between the child and God that the child will not divulge this secret encounter with the Divine to anyone in the outside world. When he stepped into adulthood, God started revealing Himself in a different way: In the same physical body two different existences started emerging. One was bound to the will and ego-bound mind, with whom he could identify himself as a person, while on the other side, there existed a Divine Being, who could penetrate the physical state and incarnate in a physical body - a phenomenon which could not be grasped by the human intellect. Later in life, as a highly creative person, with wide knowledge in many fields of science and arts, he grappled to understand these personal experiences, which defy all scientific knowledge and reason. The book throws lights on the questions: "Do these experiences represent a case of a brain damage, resulting in wrong neural circuitry, which generate the messages of God in the mind, or does there truly exist God, who is beyond intellectual comprehension of even a very sophisticated human mind? Without finding any convincing answer, a nuclear scientist and a cosmologist, after undergoing intense dilemma and conflicts for more than fifty years, remains at bay. On one hand this book reveals a hidden world, which has disturbed, puzzled and created agony and despair, while on the other hand it has illumined the mind with knowledge and vision, not accessible through intellectual process of the mind. It is a story of pain and joy, suffering followed by profound ebullience of a spirit which is one with the cosmos and resides in us.