Multiverse: A Book of Poems

By James A. Heffernan

The subjects in this collection include science, mysticism, spirituality, philosophy, politics and government, A.I., environmental awareness, spaceflight, neuroscience,and many others. It is a book for virtually all ages, and anyone who appreciates poetry will enjoy it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Nov 9, 2023
• ISBN: 9798350927962

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ISBN (Print): 979-8-35092-795-5

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By James A. Heffernan

The Reality of Hunter-Gatherers

Nonlocal Nature: The Eight Circuits of Consciousness

Many Worlds: A Collection of Poems

Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

Tunnels Through Time: Poems and Observations

Ripples on an Infinite Sea

To my parents

Contents

The Aristocrat

The Bardos

Black Hole Offspring

Books and Bushmills

The Brain

Cause and Effect

Chaos Mysticism

Class

Complex Thought

The Consciousness of the Fauna and Flora

Conspiracies

The Constitution

Crazy

Delusion or Illusion?

Earth’s Fate

Ecology

Eight Billion

The End of Metabolism

Entanglement

Explicate

The Foreign Language of Philosophy

Freedom

Freedom of Thought, Freedom of Naught

The Ghoul

Global Complexity

GONZO

Good Behavior

Government Structures

Greener Grass

A Hard Rain

Hi Tech

Holler

Human Extinction

Idol

Is Reality Real?

The Man Who Would Be King

Materialistic

Miserable Spirit Part II

Model Agnostic

Modern Mystic

The Moon

The Morals

The Morals of Sentience

Morphic Universe

Mystic Science

Native Moon

Nature’s Attitude

The New Alchemy

Omega

Our Blue Planet

People

People and Places Shine

Re-Boot

Reaction Action

Reality Overhaul

Refine Providence

Reflex and Intent

Relationships

Relative Freedom

Responsibility

Revolutionary

Should

Simulacrum

Sixties Visions

Sobriety

Socratic Ontology

Some Say the Truth Doesn’t Exist

Strings

Technology

The Thing-in-Itself

Time Would Be Objective

Timewave

Tunnels Through Time

Two-One-Zero

Uncertainty

The Universe is Out There

The Vienna Circle

War

The Younger Generation

You’re Already Dead

The Aristocrat

In times galore long distant

Some were aristocrats for good reason

Whether well-bred, or a brilliant head

Logical class was in season

Today we have nothing like that

The clarion call is all money

Your bank balance, and not your talents

Is considered by all to be sunny

Now, how that money is gotten

Is certainly here germane

But the rich are nit-wits, with only a fitness

To do what got them their gain

So we have our Mark Cubans

And Bill Gateses (and Donald Trumps)

These men are not, as if one forgot

Aristocrats at all, just cash pumps

Indeed they are just businessmen

There are not many examples

Of Renaissance men, virtue to defend

In fact, over virtue they trample

So this right here is the sort of thing

That defined traditional aristocracy

We’ve not got the fitness, as God is our witness

And we’re living in an idiocracy

The Bardos

Of course, in the end we expire

But the point at which we retire

Is fraught with consequent fates

Coming back, or pearly gates?

One might be destined for reincarnation

In which case he does not stop at the station

Or higher into the spheres

The soul’s rich history coheres

Exempt or not from samsara

Rub elbows with Avalokitesvara

To go back down into the stew?

What sort of a being are you?

Black Hole Offspring

It seems clear enough that one possible role

Would be to explore forbidding black holes

The popular notion does seem to be

That man will be helming the ship at sea

And he will provide sufficient soul

But will he still be at the controls?