About
I am a lifelong student of philosophy and director of Integral Hypnosis, a hypnotherapy and philosophical counseling practice located in Newton, MA USA. I am also host of the Philosophic Perspectives radio show on the ArtistFirst Radio Network.
Six years of research and seven years of writing produced the book, Ethical Empowerment: Virtue Beyond the Paradigms. The book develops an ethical theory that is based upon a view that beliefs need to be challenged with opposing perspectives, while also guided by a philosophical conception of love as the universal moral principle that underlies all ethics. Many social, economic, political issues and unconventional proposals are explored from this vantage. Additional works are forthcoming.
The Seekers: The Children of Darkness (Dystopian Sci-Fi - Book 1)
Description
<p>New from the author of the multiple award-winning fantasy saga, <em>The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky</em>, winner of the <strong>Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Fall 2014 - Best Book in the Category of FANTASY</strong>....</p><h1><strong><em>The Children of Darkness</em> by David Litwack</strong></h1><p>Evolved Publishing presents the first book in the new dystopian series <em>The Seekers</em>. [DRM-Free]</p><h2><strong>[Dystopian, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Religion]</strong></h2><p><em>“But what are we without dreams?”</em></p><p>A thousand years ago the Darkness came—a terrible time of violence, fear, and social collapse when technology ran rampant. But the vicars of the Temple of Light brought peace, ushering in an era of blessed simplicity. For ten centuries they have kept the madness at bay with “temple magic,” and by eliminating forever the rush of progress that nearly caused the destruction of everything.</p><p>Childhood friends, Orah and Nathaniel, have always lived in the tiny village of Little Pond, longing for more from life but unwilling to challenge the rigid status quo. When their friend Thomas returns from the Temple after his “teaching”—the secret coming-of-age ritual that binds young men and women eternally to the Light—they barely recognize the broken and brooding young man the boy has become. Then when Orah is summoned as well, Nathaniel follows in a foolhardy attempt to save her.</p><p>In the prisons of Temple City, they discover a terrible secret that launches the three on a journey to find the forbidden keep, placing their lives in jeopardy, for a truth from the past awaits that threatens the foundation of the Temple. If they reveal that truth, they might once again release the potential of their people.</p><p>Yet they would also incur the Temple’s wrath as it is written: “If there comes among you a prophet saying, ‘Let us return to the darkness,’ you shall stone him, because he has sought to thrust you away from the Light.”</p><p><strong>Be sure to read the second book in this series, <em>The Stuff of Stars</em>, due to release November 30, 2015. And don't miss David's award-winning speculative saga, <em>The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky</em></strong></p>
Story Behind The Book
My inspiration is tied to a personal search for the fundamental nature of morality and ethical thinking. Almost from the beginning of my fascination with philosophy I was intrigued by the unifying characteristics of ethical reasoning that coexists, simultaneously, with the diversity of expression that is vital to beauty when it is understood as a function of the diversity that springs from underlying unity. E pluribus unum. Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man," a drawing concerning the proportions of human body, for me has meaning beyond proportionality and touches on the issue of the One and the Many. I think that others share this interpretation. But the struggle to see the one in the many, to find unity in diversity, has been the primary theme that has influenced my thinking over the course my adulthood and my philosophical reflections. I have also been greatly influenced by the great philosophers, most specifically I think, by Nietzsche and by Wittgenstein. But my interest is broad, as I am as comfortable with Hume as I am with mystical conjecture.
