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Download or read book Double Mirage written by Dan Goodlett and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the origins of consciousness and thought? Perhaps we will never know, but the mystery is worth pursuing. One simple question, many answers, answers that lead to community and culture, and also lead to war, poverty, and strife. Out of these questions comes our common dilemma - we have no idea what reality is, but we all want the answer, so we make up broken stories from our observations, and then we act on them, right or wrong. Through the realization of our dilemma, we can find compassion, when we see that the I and other are just broken pieces of a single self. Poet and peace activist, Dan Edward Goodlett, chronicles his experiences with poetry and memoir. Like many of his generation, Dan found himself entangled with the predicament of the Vietnam War. To go, or not to go. A profound conviction that "thou shalt not kill" prevailed and led to a trip to Canada, and he found himself in jail, in solitary confinement, on his return to the U.S. He began writing poetry in his teens, and an abundance of what he wrote was about his relationship to "God," and his desire for a peaceful and compassionate world. This book is about his explorations within, it is a deeply passionate view of the world of consciousness as seen by scientists, Christians, Buddhists, artists, and anyone else curious enough to examine their existence. Solitary confinement turned out to be Dan's mountain top, instrumental in the formation of his vision.