Beyond The Furthest Edges Of The Night
by Cliff Gogh
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Pub Date 27 May 2016 | Archive Date 10 Aug 2016
John Hunt Publishing Ltd | Changemakers Books
Description
Beyond the Furthest Edge of Night documents the years of a disheartened young man as he searches for something more endurable than the everyday world, the world of exhausted, powerless people who day by day give up on finding anything better. Cliff Gogh is out in the dark, wandering the landscapes of the surreal and faraway, with no more knowledge of where to find answers than anyone. But there must be something out there: in the strange moonlight, in the wind blowing through the trees, in the dark skies. It might be hidden, but the shadowy landscapes have a solitary wanderer, a ghost on the mountainsides, a human examining himself in the night, a dropout from society looking for something to quiet his horror of existence and his disappointment in what little has been offered by reality to justify living.
Advance Praise
Neil Richardson founder of the online virtual commons, Walt Whitman Integral, author of Episodic Flash Sight
Beyond the Furthest Edge of Night is astonishingly unique. It grabbed me like the jaws of a rabid wolverine; had I wanted to, I'm not sure I could have escaped once I had read the first pages. Mr. Gogh's experience as a disconnected youth is disturbing, but authenticity drips from the page. This unique story plays with time and the narrator wanders from the inner psyche to the outer trails of city and forest as if tramping freely on the rails. Like all mystics, even deeply wounded ones like Mr. Gogh, he discovers eternal truths, such as when examining a tiny leaf that reveals the sublime wonder of everything in the cosmos, from matter to mind to spirit. Many of the images described in the book affected my mind like either a deadly virus or a saving light in the darkness of existential despair. The truth of this work is that to be free, actually free, we must confront and look into the eyes of our pain. If we look hard without flinching, we can catch a glimpse of the totality of love before it slips away to be lost again. Mr. Gogh's realizations teeter precariously on the edge until the moment comes when separation ceases and the body fades away into the ocean of eternity.
Ira Rechtshaffer author of Mindfulness and Madness
Like Dante's Divine comedy and it's description of the Inferno, Beyond the Furthest Edge of Night is a modern autobiography by a spiritual vagabond. It is a journey that alternates between the dark and the radiant, One that goes from nihilistic, suicidal despair to Mr. Gogh's enduring reverence for all of life. This is a poetic interior journey that is not for the faint of heart. Gogh's descriptions of the agony of his dark night of the soul before his shadow self is brought into the light, are surrealistically vivid. His profound catharsis leads to a recognition of the timeless unconditioned spirit in all of existence. This is an account by a self-avowed renunciate who is in the world but not of it.
Beyond the Furthest Edge of Night is astonishingly unique. It grabbed me like the jaws of a rabid wolverine; had I wanted to, I'm not sure I could have escaped once I had read the first pages. Mr. Gogh's experience as a disconnected youth is disturbing, but authenticity drips from the page. This unique story plays with time and the narrator wanders from the inner psyche to the outer trails of city and forest as if tramping freely on the rails. Like all mystics, even deeply wounded ones like Mr. Gogh, he discovers eternal truths, such as when examining a tiny leaf that reveals the sublime wonder of everything in the cosmos, from matter to mind to spirit. Many of the images described in the book affected my mind like either a deadly virus or a saving light in the darkness of existential despair. The truth of this work is that to be free, actually free, we must confront and look into the eyes of our pain. If we look hard without flinching, we can catch a glimpse of the totality of love before it slips away to be lost again. Mr. Gogh's realizations teeter precariously on the edge until the moment comes when separation ceases and the body fades away into the ocean of eternity.
Ira Rechtshaffer author of Mindfulness and Madness
Like Dante's Divine comedy and it's description of the Inferno, Beyond the Furthest Edge of Night is a modern autobiography by a spiritual vagabond. It is a journey that alternates between the dark and the radiant, One that goes from nihilistic, suicidal despair to Mr. Gogh's enduring reverence for all of life. This is a poetic interior journey that is not for the faint of heart. Gogh's descriptions of the agony of his dark night of the soul before his shadow self is brought into the light, are surrealistically vivid. His profound catharsis leads to a recognition of the timeless unconditioned spirit in all of existence. This is an account by a self-avowed renunciate who is in the world but not of it.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781785352959 |
| PRICE | £0.00 (GBP) |
