Unfinished World - Paperback

by John Olson (Author)

Unfinished World is a novel of cosmic gestation. It focuses on the interface between the personal and the universal, the idea that we are the universe creating itself, suggesting that our individual awareness is part of a larger, universal consciousness, that our thoughts and experiences contribute to the ongoing process of the universe understanding itself, a deep

sense of interconnectedness that carries you everywhere like a feeling. It is also keenly alert to the ongoing shifts in the human paradigm and the volatility and precariousness of our

current dilemma. Much of the background for these reflections occurs in a trip to Kauai in post-pandemic 2023, a place of uncanny and beauty and serenity. It includes such universals

as Mahler's "Adagietto," Willie Dixon's "Wang Dang Doodle," the Dirac equation, and a toddler kicking the back of one's seat on a long flight over the Pacific while trying to read Mad

Love by surrealist poet André Breton.