Peace at the Edge of Uncertainty Blog Tour: Marilyn's Musings guest post & ebook-only giveaway

Monday, August 15, 2011

Marilyn's Musings guest post & ebook-only giveaway

Peace at the Edge of Uncertainty by Neil Hanson
Blog Tour Stop

August 15
Marilyn's Musings (guest post & ebook-only giveaway)
click to read the posted guest post & enter the ebook-only giveaway
For one week, all commenters at the Marilyn's Musings post will receive a free ebook.
ends 8/22/11

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Neil Hanson lives and works in Colorado. Peace at the Edge of Uncertainty is his first book. He blogs actively and writes articles for periodicals. He is an avid outdoorsman, passionate about hunting and fishing. He spends a great deal of time bicycling the roads and trails of Colorado, and backcountry skiing in winter. His passion for gardening spills over into a joint venture with his oldest son, where they operate a landscaping and construction company in Colorado.

Reviews & Awards

"The story of one man's mystical encounters with Divine Presence, woven into an extremely personal and accessible narrative of an end-of-life journey. The story challenges religion and people of faith to focus more on creating the interface between God and humanity, and less on dogma and doctrine."
–Boulder Review

2010 EVVY Award Winner

1st Place – Inspirational Category
2nd Place – Non-fiction Category
3rd Place – Spiritual Category

Awarded by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA)

To Purchase Book

Peace at the Edge of Uncertainty
can be purchased at:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
or at your local bookstore.

Publisher: Neil Hanson's High Prairie Press

Paperback
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 9780982639108
Pages: 132
Release: May 2010

eBook
Kindle - $2.99
Nook - $2.99
Smashwords - $2.99

A story of family and a journey through Faith, though not in a traditional sense. The author explores the "coming together" of a family around the deathbed of the patriarch. With a style that is highly personal, the narrator describes the revelations, discoveries, and growth that occurs within these relationships during the several days of "coming together."

Like so many families today in our world of highly effective medicine and life-support, the family in this story faces the difficult and wrenching questions our culture must face: When does life begin and end? What are the complexions of distinction between bare and primitive "life" on the one hand, and "human-ness" on the other hand? Where and when and how do we "play God" with our decisions to withhold feeding tubes and respirators? How do we face these questions, and work our way to effective answers?

Woven through the story are descriptions of magical and mystical encounters that inform and guide the life of the narrator, helping to open honest questions about how "religion" aids or obstructs the journey through Faith that most people are called to explore.

In this story told in the first-person form of a letter from a middle-aged man to his deceased father, Hanson invites us to journey with him through the final days of the father’s life, finding a magical transition waiting at the end of that journey. The story weaves end-of-life reality and spiritual questioning into a sensitive and revealing tapestry of Truth and Wisdom. The tapestry is colored with true stories of mystical experiences that inform the spiritual path of the son.

Most of us will face difficult and painful end-of-life decisions with the most important people in our lives. The threads of this aspect of the story are sensitive, and Hanson reveals the struggles and destinations of the son as he wrestles deeply with the journey that he must walk in making these decisions for his dying father.

These struggles are played out within the context of the spiritual canvas that the son has built his life around. Hanson opens the Kimono to the personal experiences and traditions that have led the son to his spiritual reality, and invites the reader to rigorously reject certainty when it comes to either spiritual faith or rejection of faith, in order to open paths that could lead to greater Understanding.