Seeing Clearly---with 17 beautiful, full color photographs---is a poetic view of the world through they eyes of a modern-day Taoist.
PREFACE
I first wrote Seeing Clearly in June of 1997 while spending a two week, solitary retreat at my parent's cabin in the Tennessee Smokey Mountains. Though it has been 12 years since I wrote the words that follow, I'm surprised that I still agree with that younger, somewhat idealist version of myself. Happily, I still experience the sense of serenity reading Seeing Clearly as when I first wrote it.
I never found a publisher for Seeing Clearly. Back in 1997 I sent the manuscript to about thirty publishing houses, and though most rejected it outright with a standard form letter, three or four publishers replied with personal notes. The overall gist was that they "loved" Seeing Clearly, but being a first time author and without a doctorate in psychology, they simply couldn't take the financial risk involved with publishing it.
With the Internet just coming into being, ebooks nothing more than an idea, and self-publishing far too expensive for me to consider, I put the manuscript on a shelf, dropped my fantasies of becoming a world renown author and went back to developing software for corporate America.
Today, with three other books under my belt—Fading Toward Enlightenment, The Implications of the Soul, and A Simple Explanation for Everything—I felt now was time to take Seeing Clearly off the shelf and present her to a world far different than the one she was conceived in, though a world in which her message is just as applicable—if not more so.
What follows is the original work, with only minor modifications in editing. The layout, design and photographs are new, but the writing, the topics and most importantly, the feel of Seeing Clearly remain as it was originally written during those magical two weeks back in 1997.
Wayne Wirs
August 14, 2009
PREFACE
I first wrote Seeing Clearly in June of 1997 while spending a two week, solitary retreat at my parent's cabin in the Tennessee Smokey Mountains. Though it has been 12 years since I wrote the words that follow, I'm surprised that I still agree with that younger, somewhat idealist version of myself. Happily, I still experience the sense of serenity reading Seeing Clearly as when I first wrote it.
I never found a publisher for Seeing Clearly. Back in 1997 I sent the manuscript to about thirty publishing houses, and though most rejected it outright with a standard form letter, three or four publishers replied with personal notes. The overall gist was that they "loved" Seeing Clearly, but being a first time author and without a doctorate in psychology, they simply couldn't take the financial risk involved with publishing it.
With the Internet just coming into being, ebooks nothing more than an idea, and self-publishing far too expensive for me to consider, I put the manuscript on a shelf, dropped my fantasies of becoming a world renown author and went back to developing software for corporate America.
Today, with three other books under my belt—Fading Toward Enlightenment, The Implications of the Soul, and A Simple Explanation for Everything—I felt now was time to take Seeing Clearly off the shelf and present her to a world far different than the one she was conceived in, though a world in which her message is just as applicable—if not more so.
What follows is the original work, with only minor modifications in editing. The layout, design and photographs are new, but the writing, the topics and most importantly, the feel of Seeing Clearly remain as it was originally written during those magical two weeks back in 1997.
Wayne Wirs
August 14, 2009
