Well I’ve sold my first book and I’ve had my first review. I’m now well on my way to success (or not). I’m looking forward to learning from the reader’s of my book. I need to keep an open mind to improve myself. As Aristotle said once something to the effect that learning is not pleasant. To improve myself I must gird myself and be resilient.
Philosophy is a hard sell in any case. Most often if the material is good the philosopher is not recognized in their lifetime. Those that are recognized are academics, something that I no longer am. This is assuming that in fact there is something of value in my book and I should not be so presumptuous to assume so.
Sometimes I think I’m just working out the contradictions in my mind when I write. I think there must be some logical pattern to explain existence but Einstein once said that using logic to understand the universe is a dead end. But then Einstein ran up against quantum mechanics.
Perhaps things in fact are not logical at all, or that my system is flawed.
I tried to create something that would be useful in the world, that would be something the world really needed. But naturally borrowing from a 20th century Indian Philosopher will probably not tickle many’s fancies. Perhaps I’m so silly to think that people would find it valuable based on it’s merits. It is so foreign to western tastes that I now think it is unlikely that it will ever catch on. As a friend told me perhaps in a hundred years (if at all).
I know it’s abysmally difficult to read and sometime I wonder if it makes any sense at all. It makes sense to me though but am I an apt judge? One of my pals (who swears by it BTW ) who went through the philosophy program with me asks me to explain it to him because for him too it is very difficult.
One thing in my book is that there is spiritual as well as physical evolution. Recently I’ve thought that perhaps there is both evolution and devolution and that the coming of enhanced consciousness is not guaranteed. One can consider the dinosaurs I suppose.
Well time will tell. I can’t predict the future. But I made the effort and it was a supreme effort.