Integral Realist, The Journals Of Lewis Thompson Volume Two, 1945-1949 [Paperback]

Lewis Thompsons journals allow the reader access to a man of action and a poet deeply committed to his search for the highest realization of Truth in and through Hindu spiritual practice. 2009 marks the centennial of the birth of English poet, Lewis Thompson, and the sixtieth anniversary of his untimely death in India in 1949 at the age of forty. As such, Integral Realist is a commemorative event that will surely place Lewis Thompson in a league with powerful spiritual figures of the twentieth century, and establish him among the great English writers and poets whom he admired. This very private companion to Lewis Thompson, Journals of an Integral Poet, Volume One 19321944, reveals a mature Thompson at the height of his commitment to Absolute Perfection  an ideal by which every object is completed as symbol in all domains by resolving the antithesis of Sensuality and Intellect within the context of integral, flexible, incalculable and organic Poetry. Poetry, as such, controlled carelessness, frivolity and subtle exploitation of others and allowed for true form, economy of action and expression, true perspective, simplicity, objectivity and natural rights where others were concerned. One looks towards the Heart, itself prior even to Truth... by desiring, worshipping, at every moment, in every occasion, Truth  deeply, with love, humility, fidelity. Chronicling the last four years of Lewis Thompsons life, Integral Realist openly draws us into an antithesis in his character  classic (Apollo; Shiva) and romantic (Dionysos; Krishna)  that he tried to resolve in the realization of sahaja against a backdrop of the most powerful Indian spiritual figures of the day: Sri Anandamayi Ma, Krishnamurti, Sri Krishna Menon, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Ramana Maharshi, as well as western figures: Rimbaud, Shakespeare, Dostoievski, Kierkergaard, Christ, Cocteau, Yeats and Blake, among them. Thompsons nature and personal ethic were those of a spilãi