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ABSOLUTE
Upon reading Dejan Stojanović’s philosophical book Absolute, two imposing assertions resonate the “Reality is an illusion” and “God is the Universal mind of the Absolute.” In his outstanding book, Stojanović offers a masterful examination of these ideas and concepts from different perspectives. Stojanović’s book, in its scope and complexity, is the pinnacle of achievement in the field of philosophy; it is an overview of historical and philosophical standpoints dating back from ancient philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle to the modern metaphysical thoughts and inquiries, as with Bertrand Russell and Stephen Hawking. Unique in many ways, this book represents an extraordinary approach to philosophical analysis resulting in discoveries that we can consider a scientific and philosophical breakthrough and paradigm shift. The book treats the "physical" and the metaphysical with almost the same plasticity and confidence and discloses hidden, fine underlining of Reality.
—Branko Mikasinovich
ABSOLUTE is the book that answers questions about the nature of Reality, the Universe, God, and the most fundamental questions of contemporary science and philosophy such as the questions of the origin of the universe, the Big Bang, what was before the Big Bang, what is matter, quantum entanglement, double slit experiment, quantum physics, theory of relativity, space, time, Being, Nonbeing, Nothingness, the curvature of space, faith, atheism, freedom and so much more.
Instead of just emphasizing the concept of consciousness and adhering to it without offering a real basis for that, this book shows in a plastic and almost scientific way that, sooner or later, it can be proven that matter is an illusion and is a program of a Universal Mind. Our whole idea about reality is in a way wrong. The system of primary and secondary qualities, as described by John Locke, on which our view of reality is based, is turned upside down in the book. The new, more profound, complete, and integral system is invented.
Although the World is an illusion, it is not less real than if it were not an illusion. This book will be interesting to readers because it shows, among other things, that the problem of God is not so much the problem of faith but the problem of the proper „definition“ of God or the lack of it. Our idea about God is mostly based on the God from the religious books and that is the stolen God. As described in the book, one of the targets of this book is a “stolen” God, and the book tries to offer a new perspective on God.
This book is a profound exploration of philosophical concepts such as primary and secondary qualities, the nature of reality, the Universal Mind, and the relationship between the Primordial Being and creation. It bridges the theory of relativity and quantum physics, reconciling science, philosophy, and our worldview in one unified theory – The Theory of the Absolute. It delves deeply into the conditioning of perception and the programming of matter, providing a comprehensive understanding of these complex philosophical concepts. In short, the Universe is a program of the Universal Mind. It also discusses the programming of matter and the role of senses in shaping perception and empowering the world through relationships. Reality is an illusion. Matter is the result of this programming and is not matter per se.
The book offers a comprehensive overview of historical and philosophical perspectives, tracing the evolution of thought from ancient philosophers such as Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and St. Augustine.
—Branko Mikasinovich
ABSOLUTE is the book that answers questions about the nature of Reality, the Universe, God, and the most fundamental questions of contemporary science and philosophy such as the questions of the origin of the universe, the Big Bang, what was before the Big Bang, what is matter, quantum entanglement, double slit experiment, quantum physics, theory of relativity, space, time, Being, Nonbeing, Nothingness, the curvature of space, faith, atheism, freedom and so much more.
Instead of just emphasizing the concept of consciousness and adhering to it without offering a real basis for that, this book shows in a plastic and almost scientific way that, sooner or later, it can be proven that matter is an illusion and is a program of a Universal Mind. Our whole idea about reality is in a way wrong. The system of primary and secondary qualities, as described by John Locke, on which our view of reality is based, is turned upside down in the book. The new, more profound, complete, and integral system is invented.
Although the World is an illusion, it is not less real than if it were not an illusion. This book will be interesting to readers because it shows, among other things, that the problem of God is not so much the problem of faith but the problem of the proper „definition“ of God or the lack of it. Our idea about God is mostly based on the God from the religious books and that is the stolen God. As described in the book, one of the targets of this book is a “stolen” God, and the book tries to offer a new perspective on God.
This book is a profound exploration of philosophical concepts such as primary and secondary qualities, the nature of reality, the Universal Mind, and the relationship between the Primordial Being and creation. It bridges the theory of relativity and quantum physics, reconciling science, philosophy, and our worldview in one unified theory – The Theory of the Absolute. It delves deeply into the conditioning of perception and the programming of matter, providing a comprehensive understanding of these complex philosophical concepts. In short, the Universe is a program of the Universal Mind. It also discusses the programming of matter and the role of senses in shaping perception and empowering the world through relationships. Reality is an illusion. Matter is the result of this programming and is not matter per se.
The book offers a comprehensive overview of historical and philosophical perspectives, tracing the evolution of thought from ancient philosophers such as Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and St. Augustine.
286 pages, Hardcover
Published September 16, 2024
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About the author
Dejan Stojanovic
78 books138 followersDejan Stojanovic was born in Pec, Kosovo (the former Yugoslavia), in 1959. Although a lawyer by education, he has never practiced law and instead became a journalist. He is a poet, essayist, philosopher, former journalist, and businessman.
Books of poetry: Circling, The Sun Watches the Sun, The Sign and Its Children, The Shape, The Creator, Dance of Time, THE WORLD IN NOWHERENESS (A PENTALOGY) - [Ozar, The World and God, The World in Nowhereness, The World and Humans, The Home of Light]. The Hidden Light, Primordial Spark, Centuries and Steps.
Books of Essays: Creator and Creating, The New Man and the New World.
Anthology: Selected Serbian Plays.
Philosophy: Absolute.
In 1986, as a young writer, he was recognized among 200 writers at the Bor (former Yugoslavia) Literary Festival. He also received the prestigious Rastko Petrovic Award from the Society of Serbian Writers for his book of interviews with major European and American artists and writers.
In addition to poetry and prose, he has worked as a correspondent for the Serbian weekly magazine Pogledi (Views). His book of interviews from 1990 to 1992 in Europe and America, entitled Conversations, included interviews with several major American writers, including Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, Charles Simic, and Steve Tesic.
He has been living in Chicago since 1990.
THEY SAID ABOUT THE WORLD IN NOWHERENESS
“(The World in Nowhereness offers) the joy of cognition due to discoveries worthy of the Nobel prize…”
— Milan Lukić
"When I got my hands on Dejan Stojanović's book The World in Nowhereness, I was amazed and read the book with great pleasure. I didn't even believe that there is someone today who could write such a long poem, an epic, as if I opened to read the Iliad, in our time. I recommend this book to all who are believers in poetry because faith in poetry is the same as faith in eternity and eternal life."
— Matija Bećković
“The World in Nowhereness is Dejan Stojanović’s utopian absolute book, a kind of a Mallarméan absolute. An absolute story, or an absolute book, according to Borges, is a desert-like book: sandy, grainily unforeseeable, and corpuscularly innumerable… It is simultaneously a vision and a chimera. Isn’t that precisely why we long for an absolute book? The World in Nowhereness by Dejan Stojanović is, in his way, an embodiment of that dream.”
— Srba Ignjatović
“I have always wondered, even about my poetic work, what a total poem is… Can the pentalogy by Dejan Stojanović be called a total poem, one that every poet of note has dreamed about since the time of Homer? I felt such impulses while reading The World in Nowhereness. This is an absolute poem, of an absolute system of thought that reaches across the totality of our civilizational legacies.”
— Duško Novaković
"Exactly 17 years ago, in the last year of the 20th century, I came across the work of Dejan Stojanović, and then I wrote a text from which I will extract a few sentences. “Dejan Stojanović, in the last two years, made a real feat, he published six books, except for one, all books of poetry.” This first five-book collection was published in the last year of the 20th century, and here we are now with the five-book collection in the XXI century, nearing the end of the second decade. And then I also wrote the following: “Stojanović is a poet who searches for the perfect poetic form because at the same time he searches for the absolute meaning of human existence.” Whether it was a hunch or not, there is the Pentalogy and there is that word, that concept – an absolute, an absolute book, an absolute poem that could be sensed even in that first pentalogy."
— Aleksandar Petrov (January 17, 2018)
"The World in Nowhereness is primarily the result of great literary ambition and faith in l
Books of poetry: Circling, The Sun Watches the Sun, The Sign and Its Children, The Shape, The Creator, Dance of Time, THE WORLD IN NOWHERENESS (A PENTALOGY) - [Ozar, The World and God, The World in Nowhereness, The World and Humans, The Home of Light]. The Hidden Light, Primordial Spark, Centuries and Steps.
Books of Essays: Creator and Creating, The New Man and the New World.
Anthology: Selected Serbian Plays.
Philosophy: Absolute.
In 1986, as a young writer, he was recognized among 200 writers at the Bor (former Yugoslavia) Literary Festival. He also received the prestigious Rastko Petrovic Award from the Society of Serbian Writers for his book of interviews with major European and American artists and writers.
In addition to poetry and prose, he has worked as a correspondent for the Serbian weekly magazine Pogledi (Views). His book of interviews from 1990 to 1992 in Europe and America, entitled Conversations, included interviews with several major American writers, including Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, Charles Simic, and Steve Tesic.
He has been living in Chicago since 1990.
THEY SAID ABOUT THE WORLD IN NOWHERENESS
“(The World in Nowhereness offers) the joy of cognition due to discoveries worthy of the Nobel prize…”
— Milan Lukić
"When I got my hands on Dejan Stojanović's book The World in Nowhereness, I was amazed and read the book with great pleasure. I didn't even believe that there is someone today who could write such a long poem, an epic, as if I opened to read the Iliad, in our time. I recommend this book to all who are believers in poetry because faith in poetry is the same as faith in eternity and eternal life."
— Matija Bećković
“The World in Nowhereness is Dejan Stojanović’s utopian absolute book, a kind of a Mallarméan absolute. An absolute story, or an absolute book, according to Borges, is a desert-like book: sandy, grainily unforeseeable, and corpuscularly innumerable… It is simultaneously a vision and a chimera. Isn’t that precisely why we long for an absolute book? The World in Nowhereness by Dejan Stojanović is, in his way, an embodiment of that dream.”
— Srba Ignjatović
“I have always wondered, even about my poetic work, what a total poem is… Can the pentalogy by Dejan Stojanović be called a total poem, one that every poet of note has dreamed about since the time of Homer? I felt such impulses while reading The World in Nowhereness. This is an absolute poem, of an absolute system of thought that reaches across the totality of our civilizational legacies.”
— Duško Novaković
"Exactly 17 years ago, in the last year of the 20th century, I came across the work of Dejan Stojanović, and then I wrote a text from which I will extract a few sentences. “Dejan Stojanović, in the last two years, made a real feat, he published six books, except for one, all books of poetry.” This first five-book collection was published in the last year of the 20th century, and here we are now with the five-book collection in the XXI century, nearing the end of the second decade. And then I also wrote the following: “Stojanović is a poet who searches for the perfect poetic form because at the same time he searches for the absolute meaning of human existence.” Whether it was a hunch or not, there is the Pentalogy and there is that word, that concept – an absolute, an absolute book, an absolute poem that could be sensed even in that first pentalogy."
— Aleksandar Petrov (January 17, 2018)
"The World in Nowhereness is primarily the result of great literary ambition and faith in l
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