One Like Silence

To a fragmented and conflicted world, One Like Silence offers a vision of radical connection, solidarity, union. It opens with the image of two long-estranged lovers joined, after the death of one, by an unbreakable thread that weaves together all forms in a timeless reality. The spaciousness of this metaphor is realized in the various sections of the book as it celebrates the ecstasy of existence ("e;Out of the Blackness Ecstatic"e;), grapples with the alienation engendered by trauma and suffering ("e;The River of Affirmation and Joy"e;) and by fear and hate ("e;Moon in a Muddy Arroyo"e;), asserts the underlying unity of nature ("e;Enchanted Rock"e;), explores the most intimate of relationships as the archetype and ideal of union ("e;The Ordeal of Marriage"e;), and finally follows "e;the path of love beyond love"e; to claim the oneness manifesting all the diverse expressions in form ("e;Harmony of Star and Ditch"e;). Besides proposing a theory of consciousness in sync with perennial wisdom, this collection points the way to peace, wholeness, and the healing of this noisy, broken world.