Crossover: A concoction of fact, fiction and fantasy
Book Details
Author(s)Don E Macnaughton
ISBN / ASINB00NKLPV4G
ISBN-13978B00NKLPV40
MarketplaceCanada 🇨🇦
Description
Crossover – The Tree That Never Grew.
A little Glasgow man is told he has bi-polar disorder. He is not sure what bi-polar disorder is.
At seventy-two, he feels he has been living in a pretty disordered world all his life, and is offended by the suggestion that he is the one with the disorder.
He reviews his life: the faith and the historical influences, and the emotional impact, both positive and negative, of family and career relationships and finds that there is a continuing thread of spiritual conflict running through his life.
He sees vague parallels between his own faith history, the history of his nation and his own little biography. Major world influencing events – Christianity, and Scotland’s resistance of the Roman Empire, seem to share a common thread, and he visualises those same events and influences, recurring throughout history like a continuous sine curve, which, when shorn of their World impacting mystique, seem to have vague patterns reflected in his own life experiences.
He begins, also, to pick up subliminal messages hidden in the works of creators of visual art, and music and literature – as disparate as Shakespeare and J M Barrie, the author of Peter Pan. Like messages of hope – floated in a bottle – to be found at a later date to alert the world to a hidden truth.
A sudden awakening takes place when he finds himself, at a turning point in his life, in Kirriemuir. Once again he receives subliminal messages from the fabric of the town, in the buildings and street names and finds again the parallels of religious, national and world history spun together with tenuous little reflections in his own life experiences.
Trying to share this ‘enlightenment’ with his local world, heralds the diagnosis of bi- polar disorder. His resultant frustration at not being able to convince family ( and Doctors) of the reality, at least the existence, of these parallel occurrences, tends to endorse the opinion that he is the one who is ‘seeing things’, rather than the one who cannot make the unenlightened see the spiritual reality.
He decides to put his thoughts on paper and produce an interpretation of world history, from the perspective of a little Glasgow man, showing how world history, Scottish history and Christianity – in its various interpretations – are all spun together into a tight bundle of confusion and conflict.
However, his plan is short circuited by the imminence of the Scottish referendum and he decides to float his thoughts, earlier than intended, so as to be relevant before the event, on 18 September 2014, rather than appear as an ‘I told you so’ afterthought.
He finds that, although he planned this ‘launch’, with a generous lead time, a series of, apparently unrelated, events occurred to delay the conversion of his ‘work’, into a presentable finished article, for publication. This further endorsed his suspicion that there are mysterious forces influencing life.
His prototruths on Faith would have to be put on hold....
A little Glasgow man is told he has bi-polar disorder. He is not sure what bi-polar disorder is.
At seventy-two, he feels he has been living in a pretty disordered world all his life, and is offended by the suggestion that he is the one with the disorder.
He reviews his life: the faith and the historical influences, and the emotional impact, both positive and negative, of family and career relationships and finds that there is a continuing thread of spiritual conflict running through his life.
He sees vague parallels between his own faith history, the history of his nation and his own little biography. Major world influencing events – Christianity, and Scotland’s resistance of the Roman Empire, seem to share a common thread, and he visualises those same events and influences, recurring throughout history like a continuous sine curve, which, when shorn of their World impacting mystique, seem to have vague patterns reflected in his own life experiences.
He begins, also, to pick up subliminal messages hidden in the works of creators of visual art, and music and literature – as disparate as Shakespeare and J M Barrie, the author of Peter Pan. Like messages of hope – floated in a bottle – to be found at a later date to alert the world to a hidden truth.
A sudden awakening takes place when he finds himself, at a turning point in his life, in Kirriemuir. Once again he receives subliminal messages from the fabric of the town, in the buildings and street names and finds again the parallels of religious, national and world history spun together with tenuous little reflections in his own life experiences.
Trying to share this ‘enlightenment’ with his local world, heralds the diagnosis of bi- polar disorder. His resultant frustration at not being able to convince family ( and Doctors) of the reality, at least the existence, of these parallel occurrences, tends to endorse the opinion that he is the one who is ‘seeing things’, rather than the one who cannot make the unenlightened see the spiritual reality.
He decides to put his thoughts on paper and produce an interpretation of world history, from the perspective of a little Glasgow man, showing how world history, Scottish history and Christianity – in its various interpretations – are all spun together into a tight bundle of confusion and conflict.
However, his plan is short circuited by the imminence of the Scottish referendum and he decides to float his thoughts, earlier than intended, so as to be relevant before the event, on 18 September 2014, rather than appear as an ‘I told you so’ afterthought.
He finds that, although he planned this ‘launch’, with a generous lead time, a series of, apparently unrelated, events occurred to delay the conversion of his ‘work’, into a presentable finished article, for publication. This further endorsed his suspicion that there are mysterious forces influencing life.
His prototruths on Faith would have to be put on hold....
