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    Echoes from the Void
    Echoes from the Void
    Echoes from the Void
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    Echoes from the Void

    By Robert Halsey

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    "Echoes From The Void" is a sequel to "Voices From The Void". It continues the exploration of what the poet believes are ultimate reality that come to us is flashes and from a study of Hindu, Buddhist religions and non-credal beliefs of Unitarian parameters.
    If you share the delights of mystic readings and share the daring of exploring the challenges that have no definite answers but only the lure of persisting questions then you are invited to buy the book and join the experiences even should you not agree with all that has been said.

    An Anglican bishop in Perth once said to him that he wasn't sure where the poet was going with his ideas but he loved the intense lyricism of the verse. So, too, you may hesitate following me down the labrynth of threatening vistas but you will love the poetic style of "Echoes."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPartridge Publishing Singapore
    Release dateFeb 10, 2014
    ISBN9781482898613
    Echoes 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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      Echoes from the Void - Robert Halsey

      Contents

      Preface

      Foreword

      Echoes From The Void

      Preface

      O ur beliefs and values have been accumulated over many years as we have grown up and matured or failed to do so.

      These beliefs and values have come to us through what we have heard, seen or witnessed and have critically assessed and assimilated or have failed to do so.

      Nothing is ever really expunged or utterly forgotten but keep returning to us from time to time like echoes from a distant, or not quite so distant past, or void. I use the word void not as absence of everything but as the fertile breeding ground of values and beliefs that lurk around waiting as it were to be reassessed and which enrich, or enhance more connotational meaning to emerging beliefs.

      We come alive in an inner environment only by constantly questioning, or being open to other views that fertilise one’s own. One begins to question only by being awake, thinking and doubting or at least challenging those thoughts that come to us. It really does not matter who or what it is that we question and challenge. There is a cathartic effect that produces what we can absorb, reasonably accept as being true. It leaves no room for lazy thinking, much less for superstitious thought or mythology that has derived from very conservative and erroneous meanings of another generation that lacks the energy to engage.

      There are those who agree with what I have just said but choose nevertheless do nothing about it because it may prove to disadvantage their status or escape the accusation of hubris. At best they resort to rationalize and compromise. Their position is always a clinging to a priori values and beliefs. They feel, or hope, the traditional is inviolable; whatever is in the Book is right. I once heard Richard Holloway say that it was strange that some people choose to prove the truth of a book by the truth of the doctrines or creeds it contains and at the same time insist the doctrines and creeds to be true by being in that book.

      I don’t propose to my reader that I am correct and everyone else is wrong. Just the same, I am put upon when I come across in a discussion those who humor me and always hold the traditional values and beliefs, whatever they may be and however they may have been derived, as being God-given. For them all has been signed, sealed and delivered. There can be no room for doubt, no room for the new. They leave no room for growth.

      Doubt, for me, derives from what I hear as echoes that come welling up from the deepest part of my being. It represents at looking at some beliefs again It must be the same for everyone. It may come unbidden, inspired, derived from a sudden insight as one reads a book or listens to a speaker, or a relationship. Often one is not prepared to deal with it just then or in the future, or able to. This may be an outcome that arrives accompanied by fear of some consequences. Or it could

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