20211129 - The Spear-thrower

Undertaking a\ grand odyssey. To places\ unknown, and back home.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - The Spear-thrower

These poems are based on my metaphysical magic realism novella, "Fishing for Caribou", and can be found in the third book of the HaikuPrajna Collection.

"Fishing for Caribou" eBook, paperback and hardcover are available through Amazon Kindle apps and devices; read with Kindle Unlimited: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/spear-thrower.html

For bite-sized insights into this metaphysical magic realism story, including excerpts straight from the book plus more from HaikuPrajna and Electric Armchair like free reading promotions on books, please follow us online: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/follow-on-social-media.html

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

20211128 - Fishing for Caribou Release Trailer

Feel the flow of life,\ sense passageways in the stream,\ fish to catch meaning.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Fishing for Caribou Release Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptQo1yWl6lY

Hello, "Fishing for Caribou" is now available in eBook, paperback and hardcover!

Blurb:
    "The Spearthrower travels across the land.
    "Having left his family's cave, a paleolithic man searches for other cave-people with the hope of learning about their ways of life. His own nomadic system follows a routine of hunting wild-things, crafting tools and sleeping. Club-bearing caves teach him cutting edge techniques such as cooking and sewing. Over this adventure-epic, he learns how to cope with the changes and losses that accompanies our lives."

The way that the theory of ideas or forms from (Neo-)Platonic philosophies affects our lives is the central theme of this story.

Kindle eBook: https://amazon.ca/dp/B09MDR2JGP
Paperback: https://amazon.ca/Fishing-Caribou-HaikuPrajna-Collection-Book/dp/B09M5KZX2N/
Hardcover: https://amazon.ca/Fishing-Caribou-HaikuPrajna-Collection-Book/dp/B09M7YN9ZJ/
More info: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/spear-thrower.html

I believe this is a story that anyone who has seen and dealt with the effects of change and growth will enjoy.

Thank you for reading, I appreciate your having taken time to express your interest, and please follow us online to share your thoughts about our bite-sized insights.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

Music by Electric Armchair: https://youtube.com/channel/UCxD1X6fY5WIqaImy78u4OXw

More info: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/spear-thrower.html

Follow us on social media: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/follow-on-social-media.html

20211118 - Fishing for Caribou Cover and Release Date Reveal

The cover artist for "Fishing for Caribou" is the one and only April Salisbury-White (Electric Armchair) who took our original designs and made us this awesome cover!

"Fishing for Caribou" will release by November 30th. The digital eBook will be on the Kindle store while the paperback and hardcover will be available through Amazon. 

In celebration of the release, we will be rolling out the first wave of "Fishing for Caribou" merchandise on Redbubble; the book links at the top of the page will be updated with more information through the next few days.

Thank you for reading, and for helping spread the news by resharing this post online (tag us on social media)!

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

20211116 - The Others

Hesitation when\ confronted with salvation.\ The child can't decide.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - The Others

This poem is based on my metaphysical superhero novel, "Escape Perennial City". These poems can be found in "SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories", the second book of the HaikuPrajna Collection.

Thank you for joining our free book promotions every Friday this November, make sure to leave a review: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/2021/11/20211104-escape-perennial-city-november.html

"Escape Perennial City" eBook, paperback and hardcover are available through Amazon Kindle apps and devices; read with Kindle Unlimited: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/escape-perennial-city.html

For bite-sized insights into this metaphysical superhero novel, including excerpts straight from the book plus more from HaikuPrajna and Electric Armchair like free reading promotions on books, please follow us online: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/follow-on-social-media.html

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

20211111 - Review: Brave New World

Feelies and good times,\ perfect order from chaos.\ Absorbed in the All.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Review: Brave New World

"What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder." 

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is another ebook where about half of the script has been highlighted. 

During this reread, I again was absorbed in how the author conveyed their philosophy of the metaphysical idea; Huxley's dystopian society had transformed information into something no better than a pharmaceutical drug made in a lab, or a systemized object that affects the systems it is within; both being forms that were created, known and alterable. Examples of this include the injecting of reflexes such as being terrified while interacting with books and flowers, the tendency to judge monogamy negatively, along with Bernard's intoxication and withdrawal from fame where John being part of his system has effects described in the same manner as soma, the ultimate goal of which was to disrupt the "narrowing" of "impulse and energy" to spread that energy out over "every one else".

They not only had systemized ideas or energy, they had turned the idea into a living form through their ritualistic practices, which they refused to even call science, that would almost border on fantasy if it were not for it describing the metaphysical method of forming real-life ideas like corporations, books, characters, art and technology. A less abstract comparison can be made between the hypnopaedic suggestions and the Savage's mythical legends, where Bernard's habitual reciting was the same as John's ability to quote Shakespeare.

To Huxley, dystopian civilization meant a pneumatic system, as in airy or allowing air to pass through, as opposed to hermetic, or self-contained and independent from the outside. In such a system, one still needed naturally living humans and beings contained and segregated from the rest of the system so that society at large could just ignore the parts it failed to absorb, shipping them away, and continue on unhindered. But, is it for the comparison, the need to have an opposite to be defined by? Do the myths either created need someone to consume them?

Perhaps the only criticism to pass would be on a number of exposition dumps through dialogue and narration, but I thought they added to the unnerving factor of this ordered society due to their philosophical nature that, of course, could serve as a description for any reader's perception of modern life.

These Goodreads poems will be collected in a future edition of the HaikuPrajna Collection. More can be found on my Book Reviews page: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/goodreads-book-reviews.html

Add me as a friend on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19557396.Allen_W_McLean

Free book promotions every Friday this November: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/2021/11/20211104-escape-perennial-city-november.html

"Escape Perennial City" eBook, paperback and hardcover are available through Amazon Kindle apps and devices; read with Kindle Unlimited: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/escape-perennial-city.html

For bite-sized insights into this metaphysical superhero novel, including excerpts straight from the book plus more from HaikuPrajna and Electric Armchair like free reading promotions on books, please follow us online: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/follow-on-social-media.html

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

20211108 - End of the Beginning

The experiment\ is over. Power trades hands,\ never truly free.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - End of the Beginning

This poem is based on my metaphysical superhero novel, "Escape Perennial City". These poems can be found in "SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories", the second book of the HaikuPrajna Collection.

Free book promotions on Kindle every Friday this November: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/2021/11/20211104-escape-perennial-city-november.html

"Escape Perennial City" eBook, paperback and hardcover are available through Amazon Kindle apps and devices; read with Kindle Unlimited: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/escape-perennial-city.html

For bite-sized insights into this metaphysical superhero novel, including excerpts straight from the book plus more from HaikuPrajna and Electric Armchair like free reading promotions on books, please follow us online: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/follow-on-social-media.html

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

20211106 - The Black Iron Prison

To be free, you must\ bring down the prison's walls. But,\ we never see them.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - The Black Iron Prison

This poem is based on my metaphysical superhero novel, "Escape Perennial City". These poems can be found in "SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories", the second book of the HaikuPrajna Collection.

Free book promotions every Friday this November: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/2021/11/20211104-escape-perennial-city-november.html

"Escape Perennial City" eBook, paperback and hardcover are available through Amazon Kindle apps and devices; read with Kindle Unlimited: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/escape-perennial-city.html

For bite-sized insights into this metaphysical superhero novel, including excerpts straight from the book plus more from HaikuPrajna and Electric Armchair like free reading promotions on books, please follow us online: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/follow-on-social-media.html

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

(UPDATED 1209) 20211104 - "Escape Perennial City" November Free Book Promos

UPDATE 1209: One final "Escape Perennial City" free book promotion of the year! 

On December 18th 2021, I'm inviting you to snag a free ebook to keep on your phone or read through a browser at https://read.amazon.com

All you need is an Amazon Kindle account to download on December 18th here: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B099C5LJ6W

This is a book for people like Charley Finch who strive to transcend the hindrances to their goals.

Thank you for reading, as always,

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Escape Perennial City (Official Book Trailer #2)

Thank you for reading, hope all is well. Letting you know about the "Escape Perennial City" Free Book Promos happening every Friday this November. 

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B099C5LJ6W

Download through the Amazon Kindle store, and read through your browser at https://read.amazon.com

You can watch a trailer for my superhero, "Metaphysical and Visionary" science fiction novel here: https://youtu.be/_RuRRgl9_9Y

Remember, every Friday this November! NOV 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th 2021

And please remember to leave an honest review! 

These poems are based on my metaphysical superhero novel, "Escape Perennial City", and can be found in "SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories", the second book of the HaikuPrajna Collection. 

"Escape Perennial City" eBook, paperback and hardcover are available through Amazon Kindle apps and devices; read with Kindle Unlimited: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/escape-perennial-city.html

For bite-sized insights into this metaphysical superhero novel, including excerpts straight from the book plus more from HaikuPrajna and Electric Armchair like free reading promotions on books, please follow us online: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/follow-on-social-media.html

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean