SOUL OF THE EARTH—by Samuel A. Nigro, MD SOUL OF THE EARTH--by Samuel A. Nigro, MD is the accumulation of what was learned over 70 plus years of life, over 45 years of marriage, over 40 years as a psychiatrist, 3 years in the U.S. Navy Submarine Service, and as a first generation American with five children and ten grandchildren. The planet and mankind are amazing. To limit ourselves to behaviors as if there is nothing more, is contradicted by an accurate comprehensive understanding of the planet and the universe. Basically, love is superior to all and the universe is the entropy necessary for the expression of love. Love itself requires there to be more. “Nothing more” is a cruel joke that life and love are meaningless. All logic and reason demand there be more, and we should act as if there is even much more love in anticipation. And if there isn’t, then there ought to be! Regardless, the world would be better by believing in such and acting as such. The book provides some articles but most of it is the way to live a transcendental life: organized matter sanctified and given a soul by identity, truth, oneness, good and beauty for everyone’s life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness—partially the subtitle of the book. You get substance and the transcendental principles for living that save by “actuality” for a change. This is in contrast to the virtual reality culture of the unreliable manipulating self-discrediting noisy glitzy press&media imposed substanceless non-being which, by suggestibility, turns us into choiceless aliens instead of free persons for the planet. By the self-worshiping self-discrediting press&media, we are on the madman road-rage race to the bottom culture of pollution, disgust, death, and decline. Not by this book. Against vulgar suggestibility and glitz caused gullibility, this book gives real being by teaching six analogous ways of living the wisdom-filled eight categories of metaphors of love in the cone of space-time: As a human particle by elementary physics—event, spectrum, field, quantum, singularity, dimension, uncertainty, and force. As a human being by community universals—dignity, unity, integrity, identity, spirituality, life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. As a C/catholic, Roman or otherwise, by the sacraments—Baptism, Penance, Holy Communion, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders, Matrimony, and Grace. As a Christian by the virtues—faith, hope, charity, prudence, justice, courage, temperance, and holiness. As a “patient” by the universal variables of all therapy—living things are precious, selective ignoring, subdued spontaneity non-self excluded, affect assistance, detached warmth & gentleness, non-reactive listening, C2CC centered candidness, and peace & mercy. And – as sanctified by the last words of the crucified Christ. Take your pick or combine them all. Except for the quantity, it is simple. Thousands of aphorisms and concepts about every imaginable topic are offered to teach ancient secrets from “nature and nature’s God” (to quote the Founding Fathers of America). The book SPIRITUALIZES our contemporary materialist culture by an audacious free-spirited sacramentalization of everything. Read it through once; then a few pages or a chapter daily; and problem-solve as needed by index and perusal. You will be better. The world will be better. You will learn to be a real human being for everyone. And you will have your soul back by embracing the universal Mass mantra: life-sacrifice-virtue-lovehumanity-peace-freedom-death.
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""A BOOK WHICH TELLS HOW TO HAVE THE GOOD LIFE!""
PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR SAMUEL A. NIGRO, MD...full bibliography
is available from Sam@DocNigro.com.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY & CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY 3 (5) 2015 & 3 (6) 2015
Special Issue III:
3(5): 00150. Review of 2 Contradictory Books, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, by Daniel C. Dennett, 2006, pp 448; and Who Really Cares: America Charity Divide, Who Gives, Who Doesn't, and Why It Matters, by Arthur C. Brooks, 2006, Basic Books, New York, USA, pp 250.
3(5): 00151. Reveiw of Atheist Manifesto: the Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, by Michael Onfray (2007), Arcade Publishing, New York, USA.
3(5): 00152. Review of Irreligion: a mathematician explains why the arguments for God just do not add up, by John Allen Paulos, Hill and Wang, New York, USA, pp 158.
3(5): 00153. Review of The Truth About Mohammed Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion by Robert Spencer (2006) Regnery, Washington D.C. USA, pp 224.
3(5): 00154. Review of Lepanto, with Explanatory Notes and Commentary, edited by Dale Ahlquist (2003), Ignatius Press, San Francisco, USA, pp 124.
3(5): 00155. Review of A Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't by Robert Spencer (2007), Regnery, Washington, D.C., USA, pp 264.
Special Issue IV:
3(5): 00156. Review of God is No Delusion: A Refutation of Richard Dawkins by Thomas Crean OP (2007), Ignatius Press, San Francisco, USA, pp 160.
3(6): 00157. Review of Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2007), Free Press, New York, USA, pp 353.
3(6): 00158. Review of Bioethics and Population: The Choice of Life by Michel Schooyans; translated by John H. Miller (1997), pp xiv + 112.
3(6): 00159. Review of The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired into our Genes by Dean Hammer (2004), Doubleday, New York, USA, pp241.
3(6): 00160. Review of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (2006), Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, pp 406.
3(6): 00161. Review of Creators by Paul Johnson (2006) Harper Collins, USA, pp 320.
3(6): 00162. Review of The Failure of Modernism: The Cartesian Legacy and Contemporary Pluralism by Brendan Sweetman for the American Maritain Society, (1999), The Catholic University Press, pp 262.
3(5): 00163 Review of Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions, by David Berlinski (2008), Crown Forum, New York, USA, pp 237.
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