Be In Me Q&A

By Gregory Rosenstock

This booklet is an introduction to the author's Be In Me. It comprises an interview in which the author is asked to summarize the book and provide some relevant background to the work. Like the book, the interview is about life, death, the afterlife and the meaning of life, not forgetting those other more important questions relating to leisure, laughter and love, as we barrel along merrily in the world through our 'strange, eventful history'.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gregory Rosenstock
• Release date: Jan 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310300721

Gregory Rosenstock

Born in 1951. Ran the Bluefeather School of Languages in Dublin for twenty-five years.Literary fiction includes "The Attendant" and "The Traveller's Son", formerly published with Smashwords under the titles 'Who Cares' and 'Lazarus'. "The Blossoms of the Apricot" is a novel based in Lemuria and Atlantis."The Amazing Stairway of Light" was written in collaboration with the mystic and spiritual teacher, Lilla Bek."The Return" is an investigation into the afterlife. The memoir "Remember When" spans seven incarnations lived in three different continents by the author and his wife from the 13th century to 2007. Full-length plays include "The Gilgamesh Prism", set in Iraq during the American invasion; "The Many Worlds Theory" and "Adam Smith & Co.""Boulevard du Temple" is a collection of short stories. "Reflections" is a selection of poems.

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BE IN ME Q&A

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Copyright 2014 Gregory Rosenstock

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BE IN ME: Q & A

Be In Me: Q &A is an introduction to the book Be In Me by Gregory Rosenstock. Here, we invite the author to talk about his book and to respond to a series of questions based on each of the fourteen chapters.

He describes it as ‘a peep into what we call life after death’ but perhaps more importantly, what we call ‘life before death’.

(N.B. The anonymous interviewer is happy to be known simply as Q, like in a Bond film.)

Q: Why did you write Be In Me?

A: Because it is the book I needed to read years ago before I was faced with the most harrowing challenges of my life. It was a very difficult book to write, particularly in Chapter One, when I recall the last ten minutes in hospital with my wife, Marie-Claire, and in Chapter Two, the previous two years with her, when she was confined to a wheelchair after a stroke.

Q: Is it a memoir?

A: Only partly. The purpose of the book was a) to share with the reader my experience of contacting Marie-Claire after her ‘death’ and b) to investigate the existence of an ‘afterlife’ and, indeed, the very meaning of life itself.

Q: And did you reach any conclusions?

A: [Laughs] Yes, as a matter of fact, I did!

Q: Well?

A: Ha-ha! Well I hope that this interview will more or less summarise those conclusions as we go along. I think the conclusions I draw make perfect sense and are easy enough for me to understand – thanks mainly to all the great writers and teachers of our time, many of whom are still teaching and writing and creating a global shift in consciousness. By the way, that’s another reason why I wrote the book. Roman teachers used to say docendo discimus, by teaching we learn. The same applies to writing. Often we have to express ourselves first before we can actually begin to truly understand what we have just said!

Q: So you can’t give us your conclusions in a nutshell? I’m conscious of the impatient reader thumbing a device who may not wish to hang around for the rest of this interview. Or indeed the more discerning reader who believes all this spiritual stuff is just humbug.

A: There is nothing new about the conclusions; quite the contrary, people have known them since before recorded history. To understand them, however, not only intellectually but tacitly, intuitively, you have to undergo a process of unlearning. In fact, you have to smash everything you know into fragments and reassemble them according to how they should look for you. There is no one-size-fits-all answer to anything of any importance, particularly when we are using a tool as limited as language. That’s why we write books. In the introduction to William Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury, a celebrated Russian dancer responds to someone who asks her what she meant by a certain dance, ‘If I could say it in so many words, do you think I should take the very great trouble of dancing it?’ You know, if you try to know it, you’ve already departed from it. Of course we are talking about art here (and life!), not philosophy. I would argue, however, that any questions relating to the meaning of life are closer to art than philosophy.

Q: Faulkner’s title,