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The Heartmost Desire is author/filmmaker J. Neil Schulman's most personal book, containing his manifesto for why liberty is necessary for human self-realization and happiness, and his autobiographical description of the experiences that led him from atheism to God, but still relying on reason and rejecting religion, scripture, and faith.
From the preface and foreword by fellow Prometheus-award-winning novelist, Brad Linaweaver
Over the years many fans of J. Neil Schulman have said they want another book by him. Sometimes you get what you ask for ... but it's not always what you think you want.
Neil Schulman is one of those writers who doesn't just write the same book over and over and over. He writes a book when he has something to say.
Neil crams more into single paragraphs than other libertarians put into entire boring tomes. He can rattle off more limitations on our supposed free speech that most of us ever consider. He can recite a list of cultural taboos to frighten the staunchest social conservative. Neil is a libertarian. So why is he so often in hot water with other libertarians, the natural audience for this book? ...
A libertarian defends the right to be wrong. It takes a lot of effort to initiate force or fraud. Short of that, the libertarian is tolerant of actions that liberals and conservatives cannot understand. But a libertarian also has the right to judge the value of values.
A libertarian can have common sense. He can weigh the good and the bad in the shadowlands where ideas have yet to be put into practice. There is one kind of libertarian who will derive no benefit from the words that follow. That is someone who has no heart.
"The Lord ain't my shepherd Cause I ain't no sheep. I'm a god in a body Not Little Bo Peep."
By Steven Vandervelde on September 4, 2013
Review of J Neil Schulman's new book, The Heartmost Desire
"The Lord ain't my shepherd
Cause I ain't no sheep.
I'm a god in a body
Not Little Bo Peep."
What is the essence of the individual human identity? We might call it the personality or the ego, that which makes me, me. Is it any less real to call it the soul, the spirit or the divine spark? I do not see why it should be, if we are talking about the same thing. Thus, the above poem could be misleading to anyone who decides not to read further.
Schulman is a philosopher, not a theologian. He writes about his own personal experience and his interpretation of that experience, and never demands that we accept his view on faith. He is not trying to create a cult following. He is attempting to open a reasoned discussion. Basically, his is telling us a story, a story about what happened to him, and what he thinks it means. We are free to take it or leave it, to accept the possibility that he believes what he is saying and not trying to fool us, or to refuse to understand and misrepresent his intention, as, unfortunately, many have done.
In the end, it does not really matter if Neil's personal understanding of his experience is true or false. It is his experience, not ours. What matters is how we chose to understand what he is telling us. No understanding will be gained by a swift and superficial reading of his thoughts.
It is crystal clear to anyone who has written poetry, to anyone how has written fiction, or told a story, that there are other forms of communication besides solid logic and hard reason.
Imagination.
The Heartmost Desire edition by J Neil Schulman Brad Linaweaver Religion Spirituality eBooks
The first part of the book starts off with various essays outlying his political philosophies about how the government tries to control everything from our eating habits to our sex lives. He even tells how important it is for us to take risks in our lives so that we can actually accomplish something in life. He also defends prostitution and points out it may be more virtuous than we think. In this part Schools delivers his usual wit and bluntness that one would come to expect from his work. This part alone would be worth the read, but I would have to say the second part about Schulman meeting God was the most intriguing.I know that there are many who would take issue with Schulman's experience with God, such as the atheists who think he is kook and the religious minded people who consider him a heritic. I am not a religious person myself, so I will say that I am not sure what to make of Schulman's experience. I do however find it intriguing to say the least. While it is hard to believe. I recommend approaching this with an open mind.
Also, both parts of this book are sold in separate volumes. If you are only interested in reading Schulman's political philosophies, than I recommend reading Unchaining the Human Heart. If you are only interested in reading Schulman's experience with meeting God, than I recommend reading I Met God: God Without Religion. Otherwise I would go with this book.
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The Heartmost Desire edition by J Neil Schulman Brad Linaweaver Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
Review of J Neil Schulman's new book, The Heartmost Desire
If I were forced to interpret J Neil Schulman's book from a purely non-spiritual and atheistic point of view I might conclude that he has chosen to interpret his experience as another case of the "I am god" fallacy. Fortunately, I am not operating under any such compulsion.
The religious impulse has been variously interpreted as anything from an expression of the need to force an explanation on the unexplained to the misidentification of the subconscious with the supernatural. There is a great deal of truth to those assumptions when we consider all the great fallacious superstitions of past religion, that have been exposed as false by rational observation and modern science. However, J Neil Schulman labors under no such delusion.
"The Lord ain't my shepherd
Cause I ain't no sheep.
I'm a god in a body
Not Little Bo Peep."
What is the essence of the individual human identity? We might call it the personality or the ego, that which makes me, me. Is it any less real to call it the soul, the spirit or the divine spark? I do not see why it should be, if we are talking about the same thing. Thus, the above poem could be misleading to anyone who decides not to read further.
Schulman is a philosopher, not a theologian. He writes about his own personal experience and his interpretation of that experience, and never demands that we accept his view on faith. He is not trying to create a cult following. He is attempting to open a reasoned discussion. Basically, his is telling us a story, a story about what happened to him, and what he thinks it means. We are free to take it or leave it, to accept the possibility that he believes what he is saying and not trying to fool us, or to refuse to understand and misrepresent his intention, as, unfortunately, many have done.
In the end, it does not really matter if Neil's personal understanding of his experience is true or false. It is his experience, not ours. What matters is how we chose to understand what he is telling us. No understanding will be gained by a swift and superficial reading of his thoughts. This is a book of hard logic and reasoned arguments, deserving of careful consideration. True, there is a lot of opinion here, there is some great story telling, but how many of you would actually read it if it were only a dry, academic work?
Consider the idea of the cosmic transmutation of souls, or life after death. Can you answer this question?
"In the event where a phenomenal experience presents itself as paranormal or supernatural, is there anything other than an unproved assumption of impossibility that necessitates interpreting such an experience as unreal?"
I did not ask whether you agree or disagree with what you imagine is his intention by asking the question, if you like it or dislike it, but can you answer it? I seriously doubt that most people can. No matter how grounded one is to rock hard concrete reality, no one knows all the answers. The possibilities of knowledge are without limit. What if there is something in the universe besides your senses and a computer in your brain spinning your dreams, the sub-conscious? No one can actually know what is going on inside another person's mind except by direct communication. Most do not even know their own mind except in a superficial way. Many spend their entire life avoiding such knowledge. Is there only one form of communication, our spoken and written words? Of course not, we all know of non-verbal cues and messages. Could their be more?
It is crystal clear to anyone who has written poetry, to anyone how has written fiction, or told a story, that there are other forms of communication besides solid logic and hard reason.
Imagination.
What is it? Where does it come from? Whatever it is, it is one of those things that makes us truly human. Imagination is the faculty that distinguishes us from upright walking apes and collectivized automatons. Without it, life is meaningless. Each of us gives our individual life its own personal meaning. Can you imagine life otherwise? I can, and it is not pretty. To force that meaning on an unthinking helpless vessel? Is that the alternative? To trick the foolish into believing nonsense? Is that the alternative? No thanks, but I will stick with my own judgment and imagination.
Undeniably, there is a link within us, within our minds, that calls forth everything we have ever experienced, recombines it, molds it, makes it new. Is it merely genetics? Is it merely experience? Is it merely environment? To assume such is to explain without explaining, the essence of superstition. It is as if a modern person is saying, "I do not want to believe in past superstitions. I'm not really sure how I do this thing called thinking and why, but they invented this thing called a computer. It's a wiz at calculation, so that must be what is going on the part of my brain I cannot access."
The analogy of the brain and the mind to a computer is either merely a useful analogy, or it is a misleading new superstition, as with those charlatans who claim the universe is a computer simulation, what idiotic nonsense.
Who needs "religion" with such idiotic nonsense, pretending to be science?
What the world needs is more thinking imagination. J Neil Schulman dishes it out in great heaping scoops, like your favorite ice cream. The only question is Can you take it?
The first part of the book starts off with various essays outlying his political philosophies about how the government tries to control everything from our eating habits to our sex lives. He even tells how important it is for us to take risks in our lives so that we can actually accomplish something in life. He also defends prostitution and points out it may be more virtuous than we think. In this part Schools delivers his usual wit and bluntness that one would come to expect from his work. This part alone would be worth the read, but I would have to say the second part about Schulman meeting God was the most intriguing.
I know that there are many who would take issue with Schulman's experience with God, such as the atheists who think he is kook and the religious minded people who consider him a heritic. I am not a religious person myself, so I will say that I am not sure what to make of Schulman's experience. I do however find it intriguing to say the least. While it is hard to believe. I recommend approaching this with an open mind.
Also, both parts of this book are sold in separate volumes. If you are only interested in reading Schulman's political philosophies, than I recommend reading Unchaining the Human Heart. If you are only interested in reading Schulman's experience with meeting God, than I recommend reading I Met God God Without Religion. Otherwise I would go with this book.
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