BIO:
A 28 year old philosopher-poet called Demi Monina who looks to inspire all to open up their human Christic capacity for godhood to become a true felt experience universally, and do so through poetry that blurs the boundaries between the natural and the spiritual, the objective and the subjective, and helps foster a sense of metaphysically founded unity, so as to treat the problem by the condition and by the roots. A Promethean ambition, surely!
My influences extend beyond poets like TS Eliot, Blake and Czesław Miłosz, to the musical genius of Brian Wilson (of The Beach Boys), whose divinely inspired albums Pet Sounds and Smile (as best heard in stereo) and so on have riveted me for years, for their inexorable grooves apace, spiritual verve, and “infinite sounds” and “forever sounds” that echo eternally. Their musicality is unsurpassed. And it is to the height of humility and lovingly expressed artistry, as Brian Wilson represents them, that I will ever aspire.
THE SIX CLAIMS OF “DEISSYIO” AS FAR AS CONTRIBUTION:
1) In the primarily philosophical poetry book Deissyio, I try to bridge the remaining gap between Poetry & Philosophy to end the historic divide between the “Ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry”. TS Eliot is a major influence here, as is John Donne for his Holy Sonnets.
2) In the 14 highly cohesive philosophical poems, I explore the full romantic philosophy that lies behind our most beautiful religious and spiritual conceptual truths, for all their emotional and societal relevance, and in quite new ways. In doing so, a new theological interpretation of Godhood and a fresh model of Christology are outlined, to a degree.
3) In the philosophical tract included in Deissyio, the experiential, subjectively significant equivalents of metaphysical concepts are explored. These include Monism, Dualism, Idealism, Realism and even Theism and Determinism, in terms of which I reframe these discussions. I also discuss Carl Jung’s Shadow Self notion and contrast it against Christian sentiments, but from a broader secular perspective.
4) The Holy Trinity and other such unnecessarily abstracted and othered realities are further “psychologised” and seen for their subjective roots. In the case of the Trinity, I map the Father on to Cognition (specifically taking the form of the cognised Idea of God), then put forward that the Holy Ghost represents Vision (namely that of the Light as known in this form as conceptualised by Manichaeism), and finally I map Emotion on to the Son or Christ — a psychological archetype according to my worldview. I then detail the specific ways in which these three forms of mental activity are mutually enhancing and generative, and in this limited sense, coequal.
5) I put forward a new poetic-philosophical movement called Romantic Platonism.
6) Within my included short story The Power of the Eye, I formulate an almost Dantean concept, wherein my protagonist Deissyio descends the “Bottomless Pit” of Philosophy as it can be characterised (and as it is, believe me!) on towards the rather literally diseased roots of a corrupt social order to find the deepest truth at the bottommost depth to cure society, armed only with (Occam’s) Razor.