HOMO VIATOR
Subtitle: (czyli odsłońcie tylko woal...)
Edition: Second edition
Publisher: NORBERTINUM
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Lublin, Poland
Language: pol
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 285
Copyright date: 2018
Description: REVISED EDITION

The story Homo Viator can be understood as a continuation of Max Frisch's Homo Faber. However, Dariusz Pacak places his main character, John Viator, in completely new conditions of life. Author endows him with poetic dynamism and subjects him to the challenges of new circumstances. John's existence, wholly devoted to exploring the causa sui, is an absolutely contrast to the life of Frisch’s Walter Faber. It is his complement, in which spirituality becomes dominant. The author allows Viator to experience those aspects of human vitae that Faber had chance to "touch" shortly before his death, only. For a man of technical civilization, their presence seems to be a taboo, in a seemingly optimal yet compellingly boring systemic everyday life.

The book is created according to the same principles used by Federico Fellini in his film Roma Roma: the structure of the storyline is made up of seemingly ,,separate images, pieces of matter, postcards, glasses, incoherent, smaller or larger particles”, like the moving contents of a colorful kaleidoscope.

This story, telling about transcendence, has its origin in the Middle Europe. It is a testament to the specific exploration of the earth experienced by John Viator, in order to discover the Gate leading to perfection and liberation from imposed structures of the systems, cultures, politic, religions. It is a record of fight, yet its outcome, for the ability to safely wade unpredictable, no marked path from the Reason – to the Mind, from Science – to the Knowledge, from systemic human, as a product of specific structure – to the Human of the Nature, as a fragment of the multiplicity of the universe and unity with it, from the Ego – to the dematerialization in the macrocosm, from the ,,cultivated man " – to consciousness ,,without borders", from Birth – to the Death, from dogma – to the real truth, from the axiom images of God – to the all-encompassing, impersonal Love.

We forget that there is a great mystery. We forget that really we don’t know what the life is. We forget that an expression of immensity of life… as a Whole without borders is beyond all words. We see: horse, wife, table, tree, spoon, cat, car, man… everything as given names and shapes, and all of these named structures lose their natural, primal aliveness, living in the chosen, or rather given concept. As we do! And if we start to believe that these names and all of the concepts we form around them are real, we have begun the journey of becoming entrances by the world of ideas. And we did it! We don’t recognize Reality outside the concept, outside the manipulation.

The main character of that story tries to shatter the shackles of modern civilization, rises above it and moves at a very personal creative way. His main goal is the pursuit of enlightenment. Viator walks tough his trail aware of transience, uncertainty of existence, in which the only the death accompanies us every second constant is, and the only liberation – Love. However, leads to that always the vague and full of sacrifices path. 

It seems that the vision of the Truth, only right, is not feasible by contemporary societies. 
It is necessary to follow the still unexplored process of so-called adolescence. So let us go to where the ego did not yet exist, and it was not devouring the human being, not killing the brother, sister.... where, therefore, no wall yet existed, forming the first, primary barrier, separating the human being from the vibrating world of quantum.... where no division has thus yet been made, since the concept of ego has not been created.... where fear did not exist and man had no boundaries, no anxiety… when he did not have to protect anything, because he protected paradise...and paradise guarded him.... where he discovered the stream of vitae and where he was discovered by the Existence....

Homo Viator is a tireless seeker. His way has finally lead him in terms of Buddhism, to satori and to the stopping of the wheel of reincarnation. In the Catholic sense – to achieve the salvation and eternal paradise. However, it is complicated process, difficult to extract it from the darkness of the pop culture and indoctrination of the current material civilization. Author also doubts in the existence of this world only, which we believe to be viable today, further intensifies the effort of Homo Viator, intensifies the trouble of finding the right one, and also the unique path leading to the truth of the Absolute.

Let us answer then, what is the Truth, today? What is Reality? Who are we, who is the Man today?
And maybe we will experience the Great Liberation, and thanks to the insight gained into the nature of things and the world, we will kill the system animal within us, shattering all mirrors of concepts –imaginations that surround us.
Notes: Prose and Visual writing
Table of contents: title: OD WYDAWCY; title: I. INNA STRONA CZĘSTOTLIWOŚCI; title: II. STATUS QUO ANTE; title: III. AUTO DA FÉ; title: IV. W KULISACH WOALU; title: V. EPOS Z POPIOŁÓW; title: VI. ROZJARZENIE NOWEGO PASMA; title: VII. OTWIERANIE WIELKIEJ RZECZYWISTOCI; title: CZYTELNIKU!; title: PRZYPISY; title: PRZYPISY DODATKOWE