Traveling to a New America - Collected Works of James Hilgendorf, Set Three (ePub)

Traveling to a New America - Collected Works of James Hilgendorf, Set Three

Collection Three - Four complete books of author James Hilgendorf.

This collection includes four complete books:
Traveling to a New America
The Buddha & The Dream of America
Forever Here
Poems of Death: Time for Eternity

Amid all the division, chaos, and loss of hope we are currently experiencing, both in America and around the globe, a new world is emerging, beyond anything we have previously known.

Pointing the way to a deep transformation in the way we view ourselves, of our own boundless potential and our relation to each other and the world around us, and to our relationship to the universe itself.

Who are we? Where are we headed?

First Book: Traveling to a New America:
A compilation of selected pieces from my prior ten books, as well as blogs I have written over the last few years; of poems; articles about great, though sometimes not so well known, heroes and heroines of our American past; and comments and reflections about America from a few of the many ordinary men and women I met and interviewed on the streets in different towns and cities while "Traveling to a New America".

Second Book: The Buddha & The Dream of America
"There is a revolution coming.
"And as it reveals itself in the mind of each man and woman, the mountains will fall and shift, chasms will open, the deserts will run with rivers, beautiful blooms wilol burst from dry dust, suns will sprout in the sky, animals and birds dance the nuclear force of ten million stars will break forth with light, and the minds of men and women will reflect in every aspect of their lives the halls and mirrors of Eternity"

Third Book: Forever Here
"Be Earth's Dreamer."
"These eyes with which I see are the eyes of the world - the hidden world that moves and has its being deep within my body and mind, wondering, through the eyes of one human being, at the world around.
"These eyes see moons and suns and galaxies, and dreams arise constantly, trying to match the breadth and span of the infinite heavens, but bound by the vision in the eyes of one human being.
"We are the boundary of the vision. We are the limit of the heavens.
"The Earthis looking through our eyes, wondering:
"How much can I see? How big can I dream? How to bring forth new worlds?
"The Earth is our body, dreaming of stars.
"Be bold. Don't hold back.
"Be the Earth's dreamer, enacting great dreams."

Fourth Book: Poems of Death: Time for Eternity
In 1871, in his great work, 'Democratic Vistas', Walt Whitman wrote:
"In the future of these States must arise poets immenser far, and make great poems of death."
By "poems of death", Whitman was referring not simply to poetry about death, but to a broader awakening to the eternity of life itself.
He was calling forth a greater, truer Dream of America.
"There will soon be no more priests", he wrote. "Their work is done…A superior breed shall take their place…the gangs of kosmos and prophets en masse shall take their place…They shall arise in America and be responded to from the remainder of the earth."
This is the place where it will all take place.
These poems of death are you and I.
We appear now, out of all eternity. It is time.
Time for eternity.