Tim Garvin
I studied philosophy in college, became dissatisfied with its emptiness, and began to prowl the library for books about the inner world. Eventually I discovered the work of Aurobindo Ghose. A year later, in 1969, I was introduced to Meher Baba. I have traveled to India more than a dozen times to visit Meher Baba's tombsite and speak with his mandali, those who lived their entire lives under his direction. I live with my wife, Cynthia, in the mountains of western North Carolina. I write and also make pottery (mugs and platters) and porcelain jewelry using the millefiori technique.
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Everything Makes Sense
Everything Makes Sense is a bottom up exploration—and explanation—of existence itself. The book opens by proposing two thought-primitives—meaning and desire—as the base-most constituents in every moment of consciousness. The discussion moves to freedom of the will, the consciousness-unconsciousness junction, considers the complementary philosophies of physicalism and neo-Darwinism, and finally, after careful and wide-ranging thought, arrives at its central conjecture—a universal intelligence is producing the cosmos, now and now and now. This conjecture is vaguely central to all religions, but modern science has exposed religion’s simplicities. Yet since the province of religion and science is identical—the cosmos itself—their opposition has always been absurd. Everything Makes Sense exposes that absurdity and offers a resonant handshake.
As the book proceeds, always in a conversational, offhand, and direct manner, the discussion considers the nature of knowing, the sizing of desire, the station of humility, and finally examines the base-most desire within all desire, namely, longing. Eventually the work of two cartographers of the inner world, Aurobindo Ghose and Meher Baba, is introduced and noted as identical with each other, and also identical with most spiritual thinking throughout history. Yet Everything Makes Sense is not a religious work or petition for belief. It is an openhanded examination of the basis of intelligence and consciousness. Its supposition about the nature of existence is reached after careful consideration, and rejection, of the alternative positions. The remainder of the book elaborates the consequences of these hard-won insights and considers, among other topics, the notion of fate, the difference between morality and good and bad, politics, psychedelics, and the change in consciousness currently overtaking the earth. As trickles of new awareness gather into streams, and science bends itself to a waiting field of exploration, the inner world Everything Makes Sense describes will likely become evident to instrumentation. When this occurs, mankind will have developed a new science in which the aims of prosperity and of human valuing are identical.
Carl Jung remarked that the neurosis of his patients usually dissipated when they discovered a good reason for living. Everything Makes Sense is an effort to provide that reason.
From Everything Makes Sense—about faith:
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“Faith is being stationed in the waiting room of a famous physician, hurting and hoping, perhaps now and then glimpsing a quick white-coated figure moving obscurely in the back rooms, perhaps despairing that your turn will ever come, so that finally, almost as a last resort, you determinedly try to develop patience, then come to see that it is this patience itself that is your cure, because hidden in patience is the power of a growing inner reliance. The room begins to brighten, the faces about you gladden, and perhaps even from time to time you see the physician himself sweep past with a smile, and more and more understand that his treatment is just this waiting, this patience, this surrender. The illness that brought you to him was long in developing, full of layers and nuance, and the cure prescribed is a delicate inner healing that cannot be rushed.”
A Dredging in Swann
Two investigations start at the same time in Swann County, North Carolina, one by the FBI, the other by the sheriff. The feds want to know who stole three Stinger missiles during a helicopter crash. The sheriff wants to know who hanged a black ex-con in a well.
Seb Creek, a sheriff’s detective, gets involved in both investigations and fights through lies, secrets, and murder to find the killer. The trail involves a long-ago axe murder, the ravages of combat, an outdoor gas chamber, a mystery at the bottom of a well, and finally a last killing and an ancient testament.
A Dredging in Swann is a tale that deals powerfully with themes of war, race, justice, and, in the end, with healing.
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Sometimes, justice has to wait.
Sometimes, it won’t.
Bhajan
When Bluey Macintosh adds Bhajan, a Bengal tiger, to his mobile zoo, he's hoping to change a few minds. But Bhajan, raised by an Indian mast, one of the God-intoxicated, has bigger plans. Bhajan's nightly purr mesmerizes everyone, leading Bluey and his crew on a journey of deepening consciousness, courage, and love. Their newfound strength is tested when JJ, a troubled Iraq war vet, arrives and changes everything.
Killer Whale Rock
When twelve year old Sam Jefferson moves from Arizona to Alaska, he finds himself on the ocean coast with whales in the front yard and bears in the back. He and his brother Roy begin to explore a wilderness of breathtaking beauty and sudden danger. With a cast of eccentric Alaskans, Sam fights off a brown bear, is nearly towed out to sea by a giant halibut, participates in a hilarious woodshed play, and finally, as he and his brother confront the unscalable Killer Whale Rock, learns that courage is not merely physical. Killer Whale Rock is a tale of high adventure—and growing character.
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Caravan (the card game)
The Caravan card game is a delightful way to experience the world of "The Rose Caravan" by Tim Garvin. With beautifully illustrated cards and engaging gameplay, players can immerse themselves in the story and characters of the book. Whether you're a fan of the novel or just looking for a fun new game to play, Caravan is sure to delight.