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    Voices from the Void
    Voices from the Void
    Voices from the Void
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    Voices from the Void

    By Robert Halsey

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    The twentieth century readers look out at their world from quite another window and get another world view that is largely shaped by the advances in science and wherever it has touched our lives.One reason why people are questioning religious beliefs is that the reasons to believe in old world views have changed and are regarded today as largely superstitions and unreasonable but upheld by conservative authorities who do so for the sake of preserving their power over people. Authority is being challenged by the rihts of people to make their own meaning and think for themselves. "Voices From The Void" seeks to communicate not through the formal and magisteral voice of dry and demanding authority but in the celebration of oetry that resonates in the way people want to listen to.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPartridge Publishing Singapore
    Release dateSep 14, 2012
    ISBN9781482898804
    Voices from the Void
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    Robert Halsey

    Robert Halsey is an Anglo-Indian writer who immigrated to Australia in 1966. He earned a Master of Arts in English literature from Aligarh University and taught in Australian schools for twenty-seven years. Now retired, he resides with his wife in Bibra Lake, Western Australia, where he leads a writers’ club.

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      Voices from the Void - Robert Halsey

      Copyright © 2014 by Robert Halsey.

      ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-4828-9828-6

      Softcover 978-1-4828-9827-9

      Ebook 978-1-4828-9880-4

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact

      Toll Free 800 101 2657 (Singapore)

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      Contents

      Foreword

      Acknowledgement

      Book Reviews

      Just a brief note before you start reading.

      I have made no attempt to impose some sort of order in the arrangement of the voices. Basically and honestly, I am too lazy to undertake the task. So I decided to let them appear as they came to me. There is some sort of loose order which I will let stand. Voices come and go as they will without following any sort of order. Who knows where they come from and when they arrive and why.

      I know you will find some of these voices disagreeable, but please remember that each of us hears different voices differently. We all consciously or unconsciously seek for meaning and purpose in life and answers are like echoes drifting in from the darkest recesses of an oracle and we aren’t sure what it is we keep hearing. Often what we hear are not the answers with which we are comfortable. I apologize only to those who have such sensitivities that may be offended. That was never my intention. That was only me being me. It is a search for transcendence.

      In the void there is a darkness,

      Stirrings of uncertainty,

      What’s heard there today

      may be gone tomorrow,

      now no more than distant whispers.

      There are questions that keep calling

      From a mixture of past and now,

      The darkness is the darkness

      That’s found in the hour of hope

      As a gray beginning starts to grow

      Into the mystery that sustains faith

      To take us beyond what we cannot know.

      Robert Halsey

      Foreword

      Robert Halsey has created a remarkable long poem in that it encompasses a life of over 80 years spent on the quest for an ultimate and unified meaning to life.

      The long poem format has been with humanity for over thousands of years generally as a fount of encyclopaedic knowledge, a genealogical guarantee, a tribal or national narrative that moves through myth and legend to acknowledged and recognizable history.

      For quite a few decades the popularity of the long poem has waned, but recently it has revived with the success of verse novels and in our State with the wonderful biographical poem of Alec Choate another octogenarian My World were Fauve. Robert’s book takes a different version than that of narrative thrust. Rather it is a randomised chain of speculations with no clue as to the periods of its compositions, which might allow us to create a narrative of creative thought, but as they fell into place with meditative and speculative forays.

      It has come about with Robert’s devout belief in an overarching unity of ourselves as units of meaning, within, and at the same time causing a divine system or creative process we might choose to call God.

      He has come to this by diligent questioning in the Christian and scientific sphere of theological forums, not as an academically trained scholar but more as a Socratic and often skeptical questioner, while acknowledging the cultural heritage of the developing views of how reality is constructed and the creative process involved.

      He proceeds in a tentative manner first showing a base of understanding formed often through received dogmas and ideologies and even magic rituals, which then are rigorously questioned so that a new understanding

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