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G V Loewen
What does it mean to be a self, and a self which lives? At first, we would seek to alter the "which" into a "who," giving us the sense not…
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Only love is real. A noble sentiment. But what, exactly, are its implications? Does it mean that all else is unreal, as in fake? As in fraudulent, as in a…
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"Stand down, drop your weapon!" Make me, almighty officer of the peace. And what peace is that which abuses children in the name of discipline, sends poor people off to…
Philosophy, Cultural Criticism
"In dreaming desire, there are no real consequences. In order to make such fantasies real, we must disarm and thence dismiss no less than history along with…
"Amy was in tears now, shaking and distraught. Anne's adorable little head had popped over the side of the pit in dismay, doing its best impression of one of those…
G. V. Loewen
Kristen and Mike’s joy in reunion is immediately plunged into a new series of challenges that force them to suspend their disbelief in an ever-shifting world of trans-dimensional intrigue.
Kristen is now herself God, but it doesn’t seem to be doing either her or her beloved comrades any good.
We ask of both ourselves and of our traditions, how does anxiety work? Why does it assail us in this or that place, but never in all places all at…
The great coastal spirit, Raven, and his friends, famous for their transformational powers, realize that the world itself has now been transformed from the outside in. Raven then finds himself…
Sixteen-year-old Kristen has had quite enough of following her evangelical parents’ copious rules. But although up to her neck in both disobedience and discipline,
Two lonely cynics are transformed by the sharing of forbidden love. Facing their respective demons together, they experience deep sorrow, but an even deeper joy.
Linked by the profound knowledge…
With a decaying corpse washing up on a secluded beach, and a woman from the Renaissance era flinging an infant off the cliff above it, the heroes know they are…
In On the Afterlife: You Will Get There from Here, author G. V. Loewen presents a new, fascinating model of the concepts of the afterlife, from early human societies to…
Careful. There is a lethal weapon in your hand. This book kills. If you read it, you will murder some of what you thought were the most obvious truths. Stuff…
The serpentine narrative of Kristen-Seraphim continues unabated as the youthful heroes must not only confront themselves and their past in a novel manner, but rebuild their team, half of whom…
Ethics, Cultural Criticism
The critical social philosopher is the auditor-general of contemporary society and culture. These essays speak for themselves. Their content may be popular, but their reflections may not…
Cultural Criticism
In the two dozen essays written over a nine-month span, from 2020 to 2021, G.V. Loewen attempts to cast the darkest denizens of our own dubious days into…
Does it matter? You can read the message we’re sending out. Kristen was now suddenly bored. Tired out. Killing was not really her thing. She didn’t enjoy it, like Evie…
The back-stage people must be so used to not only seeing beauty but also constructing it that they never seemed to even glance at Kristen and the other models. But…
"You don't need lauding, Kristen Anne. Good fucking Christ, didn't you get enough of that at school? And then who takes up with Mr. Perfect, letting yet more time slip…
"At some length Kristen managed some small revenge by grabbing onto Mary and fingering her little friend to a decent climax of her own, realizing only afterwards that Evelyn had…
Do not love the dead. Do not hate the living. For life and world are one thing, and you are both, present in the second but the fullest presence of…
This was the truer source of Evelyn’s tears, that she couldn’t communicate with the dead. Been there, done that, she thought of human history. And wouldn’t you know it, contact…
And when we do perceive the wholeness of the present in its very presence - this is not at all to suggest that we regularly do so; all we have…
We have established what our general expectations of ‘the past’ are to be, given that it is our creation and thus it ‘owes’ something or other to us. It is…
A book like this should not exist. Its topic does not exist, nor does its experience. Yet it is too quick, possessed too much of the now to simply iterate…
Philosophy/Ethics
The 'sacrifice of the intellect' is today mostly either a convenience or a contrivance. The marketeer assuages the consumer by her own feigned idiocy, the parish pirate invites the…
Paul Andrews is a man who isn't careful what he wishes for. The results are a spouse whose loyalty has been worn to a thread, an adoptive daughter who adores…
This book attempts, through a series of interpretive discussions, to confront a number of well-known perplexities in their structural form of disjunctive moments, of interpretive contexts of ‘this is’ and…
Philosophy/Criticism
"Any institution that centers itself by reproduction is immediately suspect. Criticism, if directed at the unpolished edges of an organization, edges which either sabotage or yet defeat the institution's…
The concept of certainty may be approached contextually through the use of dialogue. Drawing on sources from anthropology, archaeology, socio-linguistics and critical philosophy, and using both conversation and academic exposition…
What does place mean for human beings? What does it mean to exist in space? How do we place ourselves not only in physical space, but within the interior landscape…
A man dies, yet lives on to tell about it; another man travels to Vegas seeking the base but instead finds the noble; a young woman too eager to please…
The Bungle Book presents a demythology of six salient concepts central to our modern self-understanding, The suspects of the self, the machine, and God, as well as the senses of…
The drive to overcome nature is a projection of the anxiety about succumbing to our own nature. Inevitably, this conflict creates a vicious circle. For in subduing nature to our…
Time. I can have it. I can give it. It can be taken from me, or it can be allowed for me. I can save it and I can lose…
Education, Philosophy This is a book very much of the moment. It presents a third way of teaching ethics for a modern world rife with the forces of suppression. Critiquing…
In the sequel to his fascinating analysis of religion and science, ‘What is God?’, Loewen proceeds to ask the major question implicit in this previous work; What then is Human…
