10/4/05: I had a JFK morning. After downing my nighttime concoction that puts me to sleep naturally, I went to bed. Long before I fell asleep, I felt myself being pulled out of the present but not out of my body. I saw JFK clearly, and it was me. I saw my face, and I was the face. I was walking up a ramp to get into a jet. It was a simple sight. But the point of the experience was that I knew for certain that I had found myself. Dinner with da Vinci contains memories but is not an autobiography. The author's training as educator and scientist, both natural and social, plays a role in objectifying the aspects of this book that can be put into words. This is an interdisciplinary study including: history, biography, physics, anthropology, subjective experience, travel, education, scientific method, and journals of poetry and prose that have been kept for over thirty years.
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Monday, November 06, 2006
Dinner with Da Vinci: The Road Royale Through Rebirth
The name of da Vinci has reached an acme of attention with Dan Brown's pop buster The Da Vinci Code. Now used in a radically different mode, it shows up in Leslie J. Mcclinton's snazzy title Dinner With Da Vinci (Great Reading Books, Texas, 2006). Combining autobiographical nonfiction with science, history, anthropology, journalism, and spiritual quests, Mcclinton has strummed the thread of rebirth and its conscious experience.
The core significance of Dinner With Da Vinci lies in the uniqueness with which the work has been designed. The author's interdisciplinary approach dissolves epistemological boundaries in a way rarely seen before. This is a book like no other books. Mcclinton has depersonalized the names of icons like Cicero, da Vinci, Hitler, Yeats, John F. Kennedy, Shakespeare and several others to weave a tapestry of mystique that borders on personal belief and anthropological universals. The essential idea is more than one human form for the same person. The message is simple: look around you and find out who it is that you are again living with.
Of particular interest to many readers will be Mcclinton's intriguing concept of alternate sexual forms for the same person that reappears in human form. The soul or (for the hard shelled anthropologist) the set of core features of one human being appears in a different sexual identity in the next episode of existence...The book is rich in matter for the lover of knowledge. There is a passionate account of several people who had a cause in their lives and who were self-motivated to pursue it. The inspiration of loving knowledge of esoteric topics filters through the author's writing.
By Earnest Dempsey --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
About the Author
Leslie McClinton has earned an M.A. in socio-cultural anthropology from SIU-Carbondale, a B.S. in biology, and science teacher certification. Her religious affiliations are diverse: baptized and confirmed Catholic, initiate of Radhasoami, baptized in the Unity Church, studied and accepted born-again Christian baptism.
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