Update June 2024: My draft book Paradise of Presence has been returned from the US editor, with a few minor changes. Now I need to write the references up and edit the Appendices. Then the job of laying up the text for publication will begin.
I am making good progress on my book, Paradise of Presence: Conversations in the Mindscape of Eternity. In September 2023, I decided to stop writing blog posts in order to focus completely on the book. It was a wise decision, because I have been able to complete all the chapters of the book. I am now doing a final edit and sending them off to my reviewer. Once that is done, I can focus on writing the Introduction. The book is turning out to be much better than I imagined it would be when I started writing in 2015. It just kept developing as I kept working on it. I’d write a draft, leave it for a while, come back to it, and see how I could improve it. This kept going on for years. I wondered if I would ever be satisfied. I feel I have got to that point now. It is what it is, and that will have to do for this effort. It’s time for me to let go. I’m feeling confident it’ll be out in 2024. Here is the Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Opening up the conversation
- Chapter 2: A commanding panoramic view
- Chapter 3: The story of the divine Houri
- Chapter 4: Eavesdropping on cosmic conversations
- Chapter 5: The mirror of divine love
- Chapter 6: An infinity-mirrored creation
- Chapter 7: Creation as a human drama
- Chapter 8: The tragedy of the human drama
- Chapter 9: Living in the Day of God
- Chapter 10: Modernising biblical narratives
- Chapter 11: The concept of meeting God
- Chapter 12: Human connectivity to spiritual realms
- Chapter 13: The heart’s scrying eye of insight
- Chapter 14: Gaining spiritual autonomy
- Chapter 15: Awakening to intimacy
- Chapter 16: Conversations in imagery
- Chapter 17: Praised be my Lord, the Most High (reading)
- References
- Appendices
For more information on the book, see Books.