10 CONTRIBUTIONS OF “DEISSYIO” THE WORK:

1) In the book Deissyio, I diligently explore the intersection between Romantic Philosophy and Philosophic Poetry, in the hopes of ending what Plato dubbed the “Ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry”.

2) In my series of 13 conceptually cohesive poems, I stress innovation in fusing more explicitly than ever before romantic philosophical themes, which would include pop philosophical concepts like Carl Jung’s Shadow Self ideology, and the notion of manifestation in which the relationship between Thought and Becoming is explored in further detail, and not to mention various theological concepts.

4) I offer up a mini-epic poem that is highly autobiographical in nature, which charts the odyssey of Deissyio (the eponymous hero) who ventures up to the heavens to commune with God, and then returns back to earth to defeat malignant entities which have invaded in his absence, with the power of his newfound truth gained through his odyssey to the heavens. I will leave that truth unspoken for now.

5) Some of these poems feature what are known as ‘Pure Metaphors’, including The Strains of Roaring Forest Music, which has been published in a magazine.

6) In the philosophical tract included in Deissyio, I not only subjectivise and find the experiential equivalent of metaphysical concepts like Monism, Dualism, Idealism, Realism and even Theism and Determinism to reframe these discussions, and explore this fairly under-researched territory in depth, but also discuss Carl Jung’s Shadow Self in terms of the Kant’s principle of universalisation as contrasted against Christian sentiments on the subject.

7) I formalise Plato’s notion of the Good as the One differently, discussing it for its relevance as a concept for society.

8) I offer a fresh theory called the Theory of Literalisation, in which I ground various Platonic ideas, in addition to the notion of the Holy Trinity by de-ontologising it, and seeing it for its subjective, experiential roots. To psychologise the Holy Trinity, I map the Father on to Cognition (specifically taking the form of the Idea of God); then posit that the Holy Ghost represents Vision (namely that of the Light known to the Manichaeans); and finally on to the Son or Christ I map Emotion. I then detail how these three forms of mental activity are mutually enchancing and generative, and in this limited sense, coequal.

9) In the subsequent chapter, I look at a weak premise in St. Anselm’s ontological proof of God, and then proceed to offer a novel proof of God of my own.

9) To conclude my philosophical tract, I attempt to put forth a movement named Romantic Platonism, wherein I psychologise the notion of the Good as the One and locate it in terms of the conversation around the One versus the Many within a philosophical context, and the human personality; and finally posit a philosophy of emotions in which I discuss Contraries and formalise a philosophy concerning equanimity with the relevant notions of Platonism taken into account.

10) Within my short story, which forms the last part of this three-part hybrid work Deissyio, I attempt to fuse poetry and fiction very powerfully for a story of Biblical proportions, and in doing so stress the true meaning of the Mind and the Light of Love, which I ever seek to share in my writings.