Twelve Sonnets A Defense of Spirit is a prosimetrum a collection of poems alternating with counterpoint prose that connects the poems and amplifies their content The subject matter is Nature Physics Spirit Consciousness and romantic love The book argues that the idea that spirit does not exist is a selfcontradiction argues that modern Physics proves that the Universe is not a machine and illustrates spirit in action both in Nature and within our own beingAdditional description and excerpts are available at EverushBooksExcerptsMy viewpoint was forever changed when I read Owen Barfields Saving the Appearances A Study in Idolatry Barfield points out that science as a discipline has a very specific and limited role to identify those aspects of Nature that can be represented as mechanism To say nature is a machine and nothing more is akin to molding a golden calf and saying quotThis is Godquot Its idolatryThe books O shining books Id write for youof courtship wedding children natures peacetaut words creating light without surceasethat every moment souls deep core renewSad form cross centuries deep youve watched and pinedas logics triumph warped the Western mindToday we struggle to experience the spirit thats in Nature because the universeasmechanism logic in our minds influences the perceptual images that are formed within us Its as though our modern scientific thinking is a lens that like Sylvia Plaths bell jar distorts our vision of the true Nature that surrounds us filters...
