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word count 10671
date submitted 08.01.2012
date updated 24.05.2012
genres: Literary Fiction, Non-fiction, Biog...
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Symphonic Bridges

Marek Stefamowicz

A quasi-literary, hyper-sincere, self-psychoanalytic, spiritual & progressive, autobiographical fiction, with elements of esoteric gnosticism.

 

Both personal and universal, poetry in prose, describing the process of attaining enlightenment, attempting to form a timeless, both literary and spiritual, 'bridge' between James Joyce and Syd Barrett, and to find a compromise between the New Age literature and creative, progressive, sometimes experimental writing in a 'stream of sub-consciousness' style.
But most important of all, this book is about 'bridges' between mind and Soul: between physical conditioning and Sphere of Absolute. And it's about Love, off course. :o)

 
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scargirl wrote 1 day ago

complex poetry, evocative and well written.,
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fatema wrote 7 days ago

Poetry, Very good, you keeping the tradition of expressionaliism with poetry.
Well writte.
Jessu mentioned with his teaching.
Celcius of temperature and texture of earth. Thank you - for keep smiling.
Astronomy to Atronomers - instrument can measure.

Great thought. Jolly book for this current serious full of tension era. 5 stars.

Wanttobeawriter wrote 32 days ago

SYMPHONIC BRIDGES
This is an intriguing book. I poured some tea before I started to read it, then got so into it, my tea is now cold and needs reheated. The story has some rambling parts to it but overall it’s a solid read. You have a wonderful way of taking a simple thing like a bonfire and describing it so it feels spectacular. I like the description of conception and the way you compare that to The Big Bang. When I was little I used to imagine I lived inside my doll house, not just played with it from the outside, so I really connected to the boy who imagined he lived inside a tiny house too. Highly starred and added to my shelf. Wanttobeawriter: Who Killed the President?

Adeel wrote 48 days ago

A very fantastic and interesting book that not only carries wisdom with it but also explores and elaborates different aspects of spirituality and resurrection. Higly rated.

Tom Bye wrote 57 days ago

Hello Marek-

book- Symphonic Bridges-

Finally got around to read this book this morning-
Words of wisdom came at me from all angles as I slowly read the pages-
A complex book with a shade of what we are and what we might be and what is this all about, and I could
add more what's to this-
~Did find the read to be most interesting and informative and have to say that i enjoyed what of read of the 9 chapters posted
good luck-
tom bye
book-from hugs to kisses'
please glance at mine; it is a totally different genre; thanks

Jane Alexander wrote 89 days ago

I've lost track of how many times I've read this book - yup, all of it. I've spent 20 years writing about spirituality and health. I've interviewed countless 'gurus' and read hundreds of books on spirituality. This is my favourite, bar none. I jokingly call Marek my 'anti-guru' but really, he has taught me more, way more, in the last over-a-year than I've learned in 20 years of searching. And, if you read carefully, it's pretty much all in Symphonic Bridges.

Anyhow, this is what I wrote when I finished reading Symphonic Bridges for the ...hmm...second time, I think. :)

You can drive yourself crazy going round in circles, reading, researching, trying to understand, trying to be clever, making spiritual truth all very complicated. But, at heart, it is probably very very simple. Do you want to live a more balanced, spiritual life? Everything you need is here, pretty much. This book set me back on the right path and, when I’m feeling very dramatic, I say it saved my life. Do I agree with it 100 percent? Not quite yet. *smile*

Marek won’t tell you what to do. And that – I think – is why I really love this book so much. He wraps the spiritual stuff up in the fabric of his own life, splicing it into a sort of apologetic autobiography. In many ways it reads like a love story: about divine Love mirrored in the very human love he feels for his wife and soul-mate (a lovely and loving microcosm of the macrocosm).
He tells you about what he believes, what he does, and what he hopes he will get out of it. But he never ever says “you must do this”. And that is so right because everyone has to find his or her own way; you can lead the proverbial horse to water but horses can be bloody-minded. Ultimately we have to choose for ourselves – we can control our bodies, our minds, our destiny – or we can float. No judgement if you float...floating is fine.
It’s not a worthy book either and, dear God, do I loathe worthiness. There is humour and fun and lightheartedness and sex mixed with sadness and frustration and anger (mainly directed at himself). It’s human, so human.
Finally, if you love language, surely you have to smile at the way he plays with words, constructing and destructing them, pulling them apart to tease out meaning, to release, to reveal? And (okay, so that wasn’t the final finally) if you have a mystic’s soul, doesn’t that soul soar when it peeks over ego’s shoulder and reads something like:
“The true nature of Time and Space cannot be known. It can only be heard. Do you see?”

Personally, I reckon it’s got the makings of a cult spiritual classic. But what do I know? :)

Sergio wrote 92 days ago

great jobe and really interesting

Mary Air wrote 131 days ago

I first came across this book on the HarperCollins website Authonomy, where it was at the top of the top-rated charts before the author removed it. I always imagined it would be picked up by a publisher like Hay House or Llewellyn - or a small spiritual imprint with a big imagination who could see its potential as a cult spiritual text.

It discombobulates from the first paragraph, throws you off your stride. It's certainly not a book for people who like easy populist reading. I have been interested in spiritual teachings for a long time and the author's ideas on the nature of reality chimed. I also had an interest in breathwork, yoga, meditation and therapeutic fasting, so I guess I was halfway there already.

It's a curious book...half spiritual guide, half autobiography. The author clearly loves language and plays with it endlessly, picking words apart and putting them back together again like a child with a set of building blocks.

Bottom line, it made me think and it made me try to stop thinking - it made me try to feel, to be. There's music that goes with it too, posted on YouTube - and that's pretty damn good too. [ ... ]

I love the author's honesty at the frailty of words. He says: "I know i have probably lost most of prospective readers by now, trying to deal with too many things and skimming only over Ultimate Truths. However, those who are still with me understand that the game of words is hopeless from the start when it comes to such spheres of life as Sphere of the White Light. We all know that Big Answers come in silence. When surface mind quiets down. And listens."

If you are a seeker and want something that doesn't insult your intelligence or preach at you; if you're looking for something honest AND erudite and, fundamentally, hugely human, I reckon you should hand over your bucks for this.

CaileD wrote 131 days ago

What can I say, except....FANTASTIC! I had a look at what you've put on here and I'm envious, jealous, in awe!! This is GREAT! If I had some money, and it was available in full, I'd go and buy it....hang on a mo, IT IS AVAILABLE! Now just gotta find dat money....
DJC
PS. Well, now it's on my autonomy bookshelf :-)

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