Power in the Blood

About the Book

Power in the Blood (revised version) is an adventure in ideas that explores many interrelated aspects of philosophy, faith and science in order to highlight the true dimensions of human nature and of the Magnum Mysterium (thus called in mediaeval times) in which we are “embodied and imbedded.” Those dimensions of body and soul, of science and spirit, are revealed by a nonreductive philosophy of broader reach than what any gospel of godless oblivion as the ultimate arbiter of human fate would have us to believe.

“Power in the Blood” is a metaphor referring in part to the transformative mysteries of Nature, especially shown in life science of whose strangest marvels, many gleaned from sources rare and obscure, plentiful examples are offered. These biological puzzlements tend to support rather than contradict a faith (as the book seeks to explain) that our full human nature has not only sprang from abyssal depths of evolutionary time, but also flowers in Eternity.

There are many multi-associative ideas, such as the subjective/objective dichotomy, that Power in the Blood examines on a journey whose pursuit may encourage readers to entertain a deeper measure of existential meaning in all its aspects, real and ideal, objective and subjective. And that measure may also urge their concluding, for example, that consciousness is not simply a magic trick of blindly impersonal physics. To affirm such concepts, that surely favor better than their opposites the long-term continuance of our self endangered species, provided one motive to construct the most promising and least prejudicial world view, enlisting philosophy, faith and science in a trinity of mutual support, that for the author seemed humanly possible.

“An enriching, immersive experience for anyone interested in exploring the foundation of life.”

Kirkus Reviews.

About the Author

The author of Power in the Blood is an unmarried white male of 73 years of age who grew up in New York City and State with parents who had strong connections in the arts community. A former blue collar worker and sometimes homeless itinerant, he now lives in Denver, Colorado, and has one daughter, a single working mother with a feisty little daughter of her own. His other works include one science fiction novel, next up for launching upon Darwinian seas of the literary marketplace, called SIMONE says. (SIMONE is an acronym for Synthetic Intelligence Monitor Orbiting Near Earth). The other unpublished books are non-fiction and are also awaiting eventual publication, one way or another. The rest is a whole other story.