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This book is more information than you may want to know about [y]our “self” and how this or the next civilization on this planet necessarily depends on your understanding the source of “mind” or “self.” It is a conversation with “self” from a first-person or phenomenological perspective — starting with a candid story of an accidental mystic — breaking through to a fleeting godhood and breaking out of the trauma of egohood.

The three chapter titles: Acquiring Mind, Losing Mind, Repurposing Mind, chart the course of this radical model of mind which the author calls "Metaspheric Perspective."

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The premise of the book deepens as it speaks to the evolutionary purpose of the “self-first” construct, which has long outlived its original purpose of preservation of “self,” and suggests that if the “self” is left uninspected or ignored, civilization will fail once again as it has many times in recorded and unrecorded history — and each time along the same apocalyptic curve of catastrophes illustrated at the top of this webpage. However, the premise also includes a way to flatten that curve by tracing the evolution of mind from “a time of undifferentiated being to a differentiated conscious one.”

JAMES GUY

James does not mind if you call him an accidental mystic. He certainly does not consider himself any more awakened than others, rather simply an artist with all the visions that artists tend to have. He is retired from a long career in graphic design of advertising and literature. In his late thirties he taught the subject for five years and, with summers off, he took pilgrimages to various spiritual communities, and teachers. His books share his thought and art with like minds.