num_pages: 312
description: The book is a compilation of letters, essays, meditations and poems submitted to The athletes, coaches and a lengthy letter to the school Librarian and psychologist spanning a sixteen year period at Anchor Bay High School. The centralmost theme running throughout the compositions is discipline and magnanimity, the latter especially when experiencing a team loss. While the necessity for embracing a positive attitude couched in the need for looking at all experiences from a spiritual perspective is peppered throughout the pages, the esoteric teachings of Gurdjieff and P.D. Ouspensky, also known as Esoteric Christianity, are also heavily alluded to in the compositions, some quite lengthy. For example, the idea of self remembering, self observation, the three separate brains/centres, intentional suffering and conscious laboring, and also body kesdjan (the vehicle used to transport one's soul to other worlds) are explored explicitly in the Letter to the Librarians. These same ideas are otherwise briefly intimated throughout the compositions; sometimes even suggested through metaphor. In the Three Forms of Sexual Attraction chapter, I explore the possibility, plausibility even, of transmuting bodily passion into a spiritual passion, wherein one can develop a body kesdjan (something like an astral body),and thus be availed the vehicle to experience non-bodily intercourse with another like and kind person. This captivating composition is a lengthy dialogue sure to arouse interest in those with a proclivity toward the esoteric nature of psycho-spiritual sexuality. The case for viginity is made loud and clear throughout the dialogue. In the last chapter, Why Death (The case for Self Denial), I discuss, using dialogue, the necessity for practicing self discipline, as in intentional suffering, to reduce the necessity for cosmological disasters (wars, earthquakes) and the like.This is an unusual dialogue, and to some, maybe even scary, once the reader recognizes the unequivocal necessity for embracing a disciplined, self-remembered life. The dialogue is supported in part by scientific concepts, e.g. neutrinos, and how they fuel our body with enormous power, a power similar to the sun. In my thirty-seven question questionnaire loaded with complex,intriging,situational moral/ethical dilemmas, I asked one high school senior to provide responses to a minimum of twelve questions. Her responses will prove illuminating to parents of teens and to the teens themselves. I provide an insighful essay on Ralph Waldo Emerson that I wrote for one of my Harvard University classes; the essay connects Emerson to the Hermetic Tradition and to his belief in the necessity for experiencing an out of body experience to obtain spiritual enlightenment.The essay boasts the latest research on Emerson.
language: English
title: Moments at Anchor Bay High
titlecomplete: Moments at Anchor Bay High (How Sport Can Provide Clues to the Hidden Mysteries of the Universe)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Goose River Press