A new reading of Parmenides' poem by a natural scientist. The author challenges the traditional ontological interpretation of the poem. Evidence is presented in support of an alternative thesis which views the poem as an epistemological essay on method in natural science.

Written by a natural scientist, this book is an essay on universal consciousness, which the author explores using a comparative approach borrowed from the neurosciences and Physics. A super sentient being, God is relative to a level of organization and is necessarily hidden for sentient beings of lower levels. Other books by the same author: Dirfyan Elegy: Poems of Passage (2010); Far Pitched Tents: Poems of War (2011); Rape in Ahmetaga: A sacrifice (fiction, 2011); The Iliad - Twenty Centuries of Translation (criticism 2012); The Iliad - The Male Totem (criticism 2013); Fotis (Fiction,...

In this book, the author presents a new thesis regarding apophatic philosophy. He traces the roots of "De Mystica Theologia" by Dionysius Areopagite (pseudo Dionysius) in the poem of Parmenides "peri physeos." As a secondary theme, the author explores the ineffable in Greek philosophy.

This is a truly ground breaking analysis of Homer's Iliad. The author, a natural scientist, embarks on a journey through this eternal masterpiece employing an arsenal of conceptual tools from Anthropology (ethnology), Ethology, Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience, and Philosophy. A terrifying and at the same time tender look into the darkness of the male soul. Seldom has Homer emerged so majestic and insightful. A landmark in Homeric scholarship.

A new reading of Parmenides' poem by a natural scientist. The author challenges the traditional ontological interpretation of the poem. Evidence is presented in support of an alternative thesis which views the poem as an epistemological essay on method in natural science.

The Iliad is about "klea andron," the glorious and terrible deeds of men in relation to other men, the raw content of the soul of man, but not of woman. It is a vast lagoon of dream fragments of the male unconscious, haunted with eternal shadows that compete, strut, fight, kill and rape, and above all seek the approval of other men.

This is the story of Antar, a blind man who comes to Ahmetaga after the Turkish community has been slaughtered. A night on the watermill, the storm and flooding of the river; the discussion of Antar and the miller leads to physical and metaphysical revelations.

The male totem has been energizing and guiding males, and civilization, through the ages; this has been the backbone of history. In our times, the male totem is riding majestically across all continents, staging the same act it staged in the Iliad and in klepht songs. It is alarming that while this majestic and horrific eternal torrent has been shaping civilization across the face of the earth, narrow-minded political science and sociological analyses proliferate in ignorance.