In the Throes
Mathias B Freese
In the Throes
Mathias B Freese
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In the Throes explores the awakening of intelligence and the coming into awareness of an evolutionary mishap on a forbidding apocalyptic planet.
The story follows eponymic Gruff, the first linguistic/metaphysical awakener of his species, as he navigates identity, mentation, and ontology in relation to the Gruff's natural prey: humankind.
Combining the writings of Freud and the spiritual truths of Krishnamurti, author Mathias B. Freese depicts the Gruff as an evolutionary dark creature -- disfigured, maimed, instinct-driven, and grotesque -- until he attains self-awareness and transforms into a self of artistic expression and wisdom.
As the title suggests, the reader identifies with self-struggle as it surges toward awakening and is moved by the apotheosis that closes the book. The nuanced theme: each one of us is an artist if only we take our selves in hand and construct a life of artistic expression. The closing chapters sing to us of Isak Dinesen's observation that an artist is never poor.
A metaphor of the evolutionary self, In the Throes is a time-processed journey into awareness -- our destiny as a species.
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