While it is impossible to know how or when a unified view of the self and the universe became divided in our Western view of things, Gary D. Swaims poems contend that our world is not dualistic. Should we look to Saint Paul or Saint Augustine as responsible for the worlds heart rift--even occasional heart drift?
More likely, the ""fault"" lies in our habit of seeing things as either physical or spiritual, material or immaterial, for the comfort of categorizing our ideas and experiences into pockets of thought in hopes of exercising a degree of imagined control over the complexities of life....