Inner Life

by Larry Ervin Clevenger


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 2/1/2002

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 136
ISBN : 9780759629288
Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 136
ISBN : 9780759629295

About the Book

The most important essay in this book considers the advantages peaceable behavior has over violent behavior in the survival of the fittest. Is peaceable behavior favored in the struggle for survival? This should be required reading for young and old alike.

Most of the book is poetry. These poems celebrate the beauty of nature and the spiritual aspects of life. They deal with a wide range of subjects, from youth to old age to death.

One of the essays presents the idea that just as matter is a form of energy, energy is a form of spirit. There would be no basic building block of matter, but instead, a basic atomic pattern of substance. Three of many possible forms of substance could be matter, energy, and spirit.

A third essay raises the question of what patterns of life are found in creation. For instance, could a real Donald Duck or Bugs Bunny exist somewhere in infinite space and sometime in eternity?


About the Author

Larry Ervin Clevenger is a fourth generation Texan and was born a fewmiles from the geographical center of Texas in Brady, which call itself the "Heart of Texas". He spends much of his time contemplating the spiritual side of nature and life.

He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the State of New York in Albany and has attended college in Texas and California. His meditations and travels throughout North America inspired him to publish his first book Mystic Messages in 1977. His poems have been published in newspapers, magazines, and numerous anthologies.

Beginning in 1960, he worked at Ratheon in Oxnard, California, where he helped make missiles and telemetering equipment. In 1968 the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) granted him a full four year scholarship, and he attended San Jose State University in California until 1972.

He returned to Texas in the 1970's, where he worked on his parents' ranch and irrigated peanut farm. He later worked as a training officer helping disabled people and as the manager of his mother's general store. He is a Vietnam era veteran and in the 1990's was the editor of a veterans' newsletter at the VA hospital in Temple, Texas.