| Author: | John Likides | ISBN: | 9781465328229 |
| Publisher: | Xlibris US | Publication: | March 19, 2003 |
| Imprint: | Xlibris US | Language: | English |
| Author: | John Likides |
| ISBN: | 9781465328229 |
| Publisher: | Xlibris US |
| Publication: | March 19, 2003 |
| Imprint: | Xlibris US |
| Language: | English |
Out of the Labyrinth is a literary romance novel of ideas about synchronicity, reincarnation, and unprecedented uses of technologytold from the viewpoint of a freethinker in search of enlightened peers with whom to jam, an authentic mystic with whom to study, and an intellectual babe with whom to shack up.... After a decade of conducting experiments in posthumous sustain with the use of super computers and theurgic drugs, a wealthy programming wiz has a suspicious motorcycle accident, falls into a coma, but is sustained by a computer system and his Zen teacher, an American original with extraordinary powers.... The books mellifluous language, the keen psychological insights, the succinct articulation of the main philosophical arguments for and against the existence of god, the insightful connections among classics from The Republic to Ulysses, and the synthesis of Western skepticism with Eastern mysticism comprise a profoundly original thesis about humanitys potential for immortality in this universe and on to others, beginning in the here and nowtold from the perspective of a freethinker looking for the intellectual babe of his dreams while his alter ego is pestering him to hurry up and get laid....
Out of the Labyrinth is a literary romance novel of ideas about synchronicity, reincarnation, and unprecedented uses of technologytold from the viewpoint of a freethinker in search of enlightened peers with whom to jam, an authentic mystic with whom to study, and an intellectual babe with whom to shack up.... After a decade of conducting experiments in posthumous sustain with the use of super computers and theurgic drugs, a wealthy programming wiz has a suspicious motorcycle accident, falls into a coma, but is sustained by a computer system and his Zen teacher, an American original with extraordinary powers.... The books mellifluous language, the keen psychological insights, the succinct articulation of the main philosophical arguments for and against the existence of god, the insightful connections among classics from The Republic to Ulysses, and the synthesis of Western skepticism with Eastern mysticism comprise a profoundly original thesis about humanitys potential for immortality in this universe and on to others, beginning in the here and nowtold from the perspective of a freethinker looking for the intellectual babe of his dreams while his alter ego is pestering him to hurry up and get laid....
