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A Philosophical War: Part I:
Antebellum, Enemies, & Allies
In part I of Atman’s collected work, A Philosophical War, he takes up arms against what he views as humanity’s most surreptitious and violent enemy: the structure of its own consciousness.
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Arguing that the modern human condition has been invaded by a thought process that works against its own nature (and by doing so causes human beings a great deal of unnecessary suffering), Atman’s project is to both overthrow and simultaneously replace the current prevailing conscious structure by first identifying its enemy and then aligning with a more coherent and powerful ally. To say the least, it is an ambitious, though, not wholly doomed endeavor. His attacks are delivered in digestible busts of epistemological guerrilla strikes aimed at puncturing the lines of everyday thought patterns. And while the scale of his counteroffensive follows a linear progression, the work can be read and comprehended from nearly any starting point.
Atman’s initial claim is that because of phenomenological misinterpretations, humanity is only able to obtain fragments of reality. Furthermore, he contends that human consciousness has relied far too heavily on thought alone to comprehend the exterior world and its position within it. His answer is to replace thought as the primary operational tool of consciousness with a mode of relationality he refers to as “being with”, which decentralizes the reliance of concepts and ideas and centers on something that Atman sees as entirely more capable of harmonizing humanity with the rest of creation. Possibly even more drastic maneuvers are his revolutionary interpretations of the early chapters in the book of Genesis, and his call for the removal of the contemporary idea of God while, at the same time, delivering one of the most sound arguments for God’s existence that has been postulated in the modern era.
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Filled with intrigue, simplistic insights, and a brand of mystical, yet, realistic hope that only Atman could deliver, part I of A Philosophical War is a potential landmark work in the dregs of the modern philosophical landscape.
Something Known
When a young monk escapes his monastery with an all-powerful secret, he implements it on a town whose inhabitants reap the benefits - and hidden disasters - of its omnipotent, but dangerous knowledge.
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Eli Deo is a young monk who finds himself spending less and less time at his monastery. During most of his days he walks to the forest’s edge and thinks about what the world is like beyond his simple life of prayer and aestheticism. He longs to go out and see the vast places beyond the forest and live as a regular person. But there is a problem: Deo belongs to a sacred order - a powerful, yet unknown brotherhood that protects a great secret. He cannot simply leave the monastery, or the knowledge he possesses may be compromised. Knowing that the other monks will never let him go willingly, Deo flees.
Some time later, Deo returns as a wealthy investor and purchases land near his former monastery, where he builds a town and uses his knowledge on the residents in order to demonstrate to the other monks that their secret is ready to be heard by people at large - an undertaking that does not sit well with the brotherhood from which Deo has escaped. An internal debate rages amongst the brothers as to what should be done with Deo and his town. Should he be allowed to continue his experiment to see if the implementation of the secret is successful? Or should Deo, the town, and all of its inhabitants be eliminated so as to protect their knowledge from a potentially disastrous contamination?
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Filled with magic and humanity, Something Known is a story of a community that, person by person, deals with the sufferings of morality and the miraculousness of daily life.