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EXISTENTIAL RUMINATIONS
Are you comfortable living on the surface of life, or do you strive to explore life’s enigmatic deeper core? Are you conscious of the possible immense insignificance of life when viewed as a tiny splinter in the fabric of a multi-universe some astrophysicists speak of? Can that realization be grounded in an existential sound sense that might make for communal coherence?
How do you discover truth? Does a probing deep introspection help? How important is it to understand one’s Self? How severely do our existential confinements restrict our ability to grasp enlarging awareness? Is higher honesty something mankind is capable of?
Exercising our God-given capacity for Reason may be the only outlet available to us for escaping the indited cloisters and confinements of our human condition. Becoming a pioneer in the forest of doubt may be the only way to attain to a newer vision of human reality.
How do you discover truth? Does a probing deep introspection help? How important is it to understand one’s Self? How severely do our existential confinements restrict our ability to grasp enlarging awareness? Is higher honesty something mankind is capable of?
Exercising our God-given capacity for Reason may be the only outlet available to us for escaping the indited cloisters and confinements of our human condition. Becoming a pioneer in the forest of doubt may be the only way to attain to a newer vision of human reality.
263 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 21, 2022
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March 13, 2026
There are books you read, and then there are books that read you. Existential Ruminations by Gentry Thomason belongs firmly in the second category.
From the very first poemograph, Thomason does something most writers are too afraid to attempt he drags the reader out of the comfortable shallows of everyday life and into the deep, unsettling, and strangely beautiful waters underneath. This isn't a book you finish in an afternoon. It's a book you return to. You underline a line, walk away, come back two days later, and find it means something entirely different now.
What struck me most is how Thomason holds two things together that rarely coexist in the same work intellectual rigor and genuine spiritual hunger. He isn't performing philosophy. He's living it. The section on God and the Supernatural alone contains more honest wrestling with faith than most theology books three times its length. And his reflections on Self and Others quietly dismantled assumptions I didn't even know I was carrying.
The concept of human beings as pioneers in a "forest of doubt" will stay with me for a long time. Not because it's a pretty phrase, but because it's true and Thomason has the rare courage to say so plainly.
If you have ever stared at the ceiling at 2am wondering what any of this means, this book was written for you.
From the very first poemograph, Thomason does something most writers are too afraid to attempt he drags the reader out of the comfortable shallows of everyday life and into the deep, unsettling, and strangely beautiful waters underneath. This isn't a book you finish in an afternoon. It's a book you return to. You underline a line, walk away, come back two days later, and find it means something entirely different now.
What struck me most is how Thomason holds two things together that rarely coexist in the same work intellectual rigor and genuine spiritual hunger. He isn't performing philosophy. He's living it. The section on God and the Supernatural alone contains more honest wrestling with faith than most theology books three times its length. And his reflections on Self and Others quietly dismantled assumptions I didn't even know I was carrying.
The concept of human beings as pioneers in a "forest of doubt" will stay with me for a long time. Not because it's a pretty phrase, but because it's true and Thomason has the rare courage to say so plainly.
If you have ever stared at the ceiling at 2am wondering what any of this means, this book was written for you.
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