Letters from the American Desert

<p>In Letters<em> from the American Desert</em> Glaysher reflects on the cultural political and religious history of Western and non-Western civilizations pondering the dilemmas of postmodernity in a compelling struggle for spiritual knowledge and truth. In what is a highly autobiographical work fully cognizant of the relativism and nihilism of modern life Glaysher finds a deeper meaning and purpose in a universal Vision. Confronting the antinomies of the soul grounded in the dialectic Glaysher charts a path beyond the postmodern desert.</p><p>Alluding extensively to Martin Luther and W. B. Yeats at All Souls Chapel metaphors for poetry from Yeats's book <em>A Vision</em> Glaysher considers the example of the global universal message of the oneness of God all religions and humankind holding out a new hope and peaceful Vision for a world in spiritual and global crisis.</p><p>Far from a theocracy Glaysher envisions a modest separation of church and state as the will of God in an unorganized religion a universal synthesis of all spiritual and wisdom traditions in harmony and balance with universal peace in a global age of pluralism where religious belief is a distinctive mark of the individual not collective communal identity.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mr. Glaysher in my view is taking some positive steps to resolve some serious issues in the Baha'i community. ...The Faith needs a total overhaul. It has forgotten what the real Faith is. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Joel Bjorling<em> </em>author of <em>The Baha'i Faith: A Historical Bibliography</em>. (New York. Garland Publishing 1985).</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A valuable contribution to understanding the real history of the Bahai Faith. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-<em>Yahoo! Reform Bahai Group</em></strong></p>