A search for and discovery of the purpose and structure of life.
Science and religion study the same phenomenon – the cosmos itself – but an impenetrable barrier seems to separate them. Author Tim Garvin removes that barrier and offers a resonant handshake. Instead of sitting across from each other in opposition, scientists and seekers can sit at a table made round by wonder.
As Everything Makes Sense dives into the nature of knowing and existence, it reveals a mutuality in humankind unimagined by theology or biology, a mutuality in the nature of being itself. From there, Everything Makes Sense develops an explanation of existence by employing the thought and insight of the inner world’s two most penetrating cartographers, Aurobindo Ghose and Meher Baba, whose work and a close-notice of life itself reveal the deep purpose of creation.
Genres: Philosophy, Personal Growth
Publisher : O-BOOKS
Release date: July 1st 2024
Paperback : 302 pages
BOOK LINK : Collective Ink Books
The first page of this book was so lovely that I read it twice!
“Opinion might want to muscle forward and assert itself, but honesty shrugs and so opinion however reluctantly, must shrug too. We may not be able to agree about much, but at least we know this: the swordplay of opinion is helpless to generate agreement. And this: honestly is the force that sheathed those swords. And this: that we are profoundly, inevitably, maddingly ignorant of what is going on in the invisible world. Which is almost everything.”
Tim Garvin’s eloquent language and thought provoking writing style, for me, was reminiscent of reading The Little Prince for the first time. (One of my favorite books!) His words comfort you. His philosophical thought process reads almost as a conversation, allowing your current perceptions to feel welcome and even understood, while at the same time asking you to reconsider everything you thought you might have known to try seeing things differently for a while.
“Basically we keep pedaling because, as we well know, unless we’re moving forward, the bicycle of getting-along-in-the-world tips right over. Still, for most of us there are moments when we lay the bike down, walk into a field alone, maybe at night… and again the question comes: really now, what is all this? …Because when we’re out in that field alone at night surrounded by either Something, or Nothing, we’d all like a bit more explanation.”
His metaphors and analogies gently guide you along complex thoughts that would otherwise be hard to grasp.
“Close-noticing removes the far-focused binoculars of intellect and tries to see what is happening here and happening now.”
“Meaning is the water of being in which we are suspended, and desire is the current that bears us along the river of time.”
“Character can be understood as the inner hall where desire must present itself before it is permitted satisfaction. It’s the home of what we vaguely, and with often tedious self-satisfaction, call conscience.”
If you’re looking for a spectacular inner growth journey then this book is for you! Take this journey and learn to peer inward while examining the world around you through the concept of “close-noticing.” Who knows, you might even discover the meaning of life.
I received a review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. Thank you, Collective Ink Books
Tim Garvin studied philosophy in college, became dissatisfied with its emptiness, and began to prowl the library for books about the inner world. Eventually, he discovered the work of Aurobindo Ghose. A year later, in 1969, he was introduced to Meher Baba. He travelled to India more than a dozen times to visit Meher Baba’s and speak with his mandate, those who lived their entire lives under his direction.
Everything Makes Sense is a distillation of 50 years of thought and living and is, in a sense, a letter to the youth he was when he began his search for Truth.
He has written several books of fiction. One of them, Bhajan, is the tale of five characters in a traveling zoo who encounter a tiger that was raised in India by a mast, one of the God-intoxicated. The tiger, Bhajan, purrs, and the purr has the mysterious property of awakening the inner being of each character, even of the nearly mad antagonist, JJ. The novel is a fictional development of the themes presented in Everything Makes Sense.
A last note: this work is not scholarship, that is, not a look through the thought lenses of other thinkers. Tim is widely read in philosophy, science, and spiritual traditions, but the thinking of Everything Makes Sense, when unattributed, is the product of introspection. It’s hardly conceivable that at this stage in human development there are any new ideas, but where his thoughts coincide with previous thoughts, he leaves them for others to consider.
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