Toward a Philosophy of Perception: The Magnitude of Human Potential - Cloud Optics

Margaret A. Harrell

	Format	ISBN	Price
	Color (8.5x11)	9781420801491	$ 26.80

SYNOPSIS:

Lavishly illustrated with 33 color cloud photographs, this coffeetable-sized book introduces the Love in Transition series, published originally in Romania, to the United States. Midwest Book Review calls it “an enthusiastically recommended reading experience,” Kirkus Discoveries identifies “the premise that all human beings, through our individual life experiences, have the potential to make an impact on the collective consciousness of humanity.” It recommends the “nuggets of brilliant insight into life, death and the collective human consciousness”; and the Mindquest Review publisher notes that “Margaret Harrell has produced one of the most perceptive works available for our time.”

See illustrations from Toward a Philosophy of Perception in the on-line Artists Gallery, Marquis Who's Who in American Art. Also see Harrell's cloud photography at http://www.marharrell.com/.

CRITICAL COMMENTS:

“A thoughtful and thought-provoking text illustrating a powerful and extended journey into a higher consciousness ... a seminal work of wit, wisdom, and imagination.”

Midwest Book Review, “Reviewer’s Choice,” Small Press Bookwatch June

“A book to be read and savored and reflected upon time and time again.” MBR, July

Margaret A. Harrell is the author of eight “consciousness-research” books. Nothing was ever ordinary about Harrell’s life. This book reveals much of its amazing wealth and depth—from the New York City Greenwich Village days, to marriage to a Belgian poet, to the spiritual initiations continuing from the 80s. For the last two decades she has studied—since 2001 taught—transformative courses in human potential, notably the “light body.” Her academic background includes Duke University, Columbia University and the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich.

In Gonzo Letters II she is acknowledged for her role as copy editor/Assistant Editor of Hunter S. Thompson’s first book. There, he searches for someone who will “‘prod me unmercifully, in the same way a copy editor named Margaret Harrell kept me locked to the daily grindstone on the Hell’s Angel’s book.’ . . . Thompson looked to his Hell’s Angels copy editor for help dealing with “the down side of success.” She is currently preparing a memoir about those NYC days, which will reveal some unknown pages in the life of Hunter. To be notified when this book goes to print, sign up on www.marharrell.com, in the HST page in Archives.

CONTENTS

Microscopically Speaking. From the Flea GLASS to the PARIS GLASS, the Plate-Glass Window / p. 9

Once Lucid, I Dreamed / p. 10

Clouds as Abstract and Figurative Paintings / p. 11

Photo: Milton Klonsky / p. 15

Love in Transition—Let’s Take It from the Top / p. 17

Extract: “A Man Called Milton: Experiments in Consciousness” / p. 23

Including the Topics: “Starting with Death” and the Cosmic Christ

References / p. 40

“A this-way, that-way”—Milton Klonsky / p. 41

How I Went from Fiction Writer to Consciousness Researcher, who believes THERE IS NO FICTION.

Cast of characters, from the Soul level, the Emotional body. Jungian structure discovered in the Unconscious, then studied in the Jung Institute / p. 43

Excerpt from Volume II / p. 44

Including the Topic: Qualities from the Past—Riding Them into the Mainstream.