Bøker av Bob Mustin

The culmination of a four-volume work on geometry, specifically updating Plato's theory of forms to modern science. Instead of solid shapes, these are energetic lines if energy movement forms, all within a Universe-wide matrix lying between phenomenal reality and the unmanifest reality of pure consciousness. In providing a more complete depiction of this geometry, it's necessary to add thought to the equation, necessitating an attempt to define thought itself.

Angie and Warren Hardaway are on second marriages and are having trouble communicating. The problem threatens their marriage, and it isn't limited to their Asheville, North Carolina home - it's neighborhood- and city-wide. As COVID-19 hits the town and country, the problem begins to seem insurmountable. Too, there is another contemporary problem - police harassment. This adds to the twenty-first century complexities Angie and Warren are experiencing. The story is set against a three-hundred year-old tale of the white first settlers to encounter Native Americans in the Asheville area and how that affects their lives today. A novella.

This book explores the nexus between pure consciousness and the material world. Since this is such a transition, it''s not materially real, but is the foundation of all created things, from thought to the hardest rock. It begins where Volume Two leaves off by completing the projects of modern sciences, i.e., reaching to the depths of what has been termed Reality. The book accommodates sources such as the original Vedic philosophy and up-to-date findings of physics and astronomy, and is written in very accessible language.

Travel. It’s how we learn. It’s how we survive. Whether we y,sail, or trek, travel begs us to experience the planet throughthe minds of its inhabitants via their art, their facility withlanguage or science or just plain living. Travel’s urge, then,is based on the promise that we’re all one people, one veryalive being.is is no garden variety travelogue in poetic form, nor anessay on human limitations and promise. In this collection,the poet digs deeply into human nature, surfacing withanger, beauty, harshness, and humor. All are bers of thecloth with which we adorn our Mother Earth. e hope isthat in remembering each of us will be drawn to take partin re-membering the jigsaw bits of life on our sometimesfractious planetary home.

Volume 1 of this work recapitulates much of the symbology of Geometric shape, from prehistory through Plato's five primary Geometric shapes. This volume also begins the author's development of groundbreaking work expanding Plato's belief that Geometry underpins the Universe in its entirety.

The upheavals of modern times can render human relationships difficult under the best of circumstances, and sometimes it takes the ironies inherent in those upheavals to strengthen the most intimate of human ties. In his heartfelt memoir, Mustin lays bare the hopes and fears, the joys and tragedies, of romance and marriage in middle age.The story of this couples life together, set against wife Beccas struggle with cancer, is a searing portrait of late middle age in modern times.

Artie Royal has had a rough life - hes suffered more loss and rejection than anyone should have to bear. Still, he rises above the problems confronting him, and he does it with charity and grace and understanding. In fact, it eventually becomes as easy for him to push his concerns aside as it was at age eight to soar down Main Street on that Blue Bike, wind whistling in his ears.

Samuel II, mayor of Citadel, a Blue Ridge Mountain enclave, is determined to end the city's wars with devolved tribal society, Freedomland. He sends troubled but insightful city archivist Jakob History to a bartering meet-up, hoping an interview with tribal leader Abraham Trapper might help further peaceful relations. Instead, the encounter leads Jakob to reexamine America's past, to a danger-filled glimpse of Abraham's tribal life, and to a final, fateful encounter with Abraham, these revealing human strengths and weaknesses that are at the basis of civilization itself. 2090 A.D. - The America nation has collapsed, and its remnants have been at war for a half-century. Samuel II, mayor of Citadel, a Blue Ridge Mountain enclave, is determined to end the city's wars with a devolved tribal society called Freedomland. He sends troubled but insightful city archivist Jakob History to a bartering meet-up, hoping an interview with tribal leader Abraham Trapper might help further peaceful relations. Instead, the encounter leads Jakob to reexamine America's past. Soon, Jonathan, Jakob's mentor, exposes the archivist to a surprising link with Abraham, which seems to set Jakob at odds with Citadel. But when Samuel leads Jakob to a danger-filled glimpse of Abraham's tribal life, the archivist's preconceptions of both cultures comes crashing down. Finally, a last, fateful encounter between Jakob and Abraham lays bare human strengths and weaknesses that are at the basis of civilization itself.