Ideas on Life, Spirit, and Personal Evolution
C,2024, Dean Unger
Why I wrote The Quietest Place on Earth, – to share my experience in hopes others may learn from the documented experience I’ve had and observations, knowledge, and awareness that have come of it. I’ve kept journals for most of my life, but in particular over this last seven years, which together provide a running story of what it was like to get throttled with heavy addiction and to heal from it by reconnecting to nature and the wilderness of the Cowichan Valley. To share my healing journey through wilderness experience and through the re-discovery of nature and the healing that comes when the mind is quiet. To provide inspiration to others about the human condition, and what it means to be alive, looking through both subjective and objective lens, trying to pin down the nature, intention and meaning of consciousness, awareness and deeper intuition and how they all have led to conclusions that are both relieving and inspiring, to provide hope on the path forward for others on the path.
What is the book about? TQPOE is a collection of creative non-fiction essays and prose that are each complete in and of themselves, true and accurate to the fidelity of what I saw, heard and felt while venturing solo into the deep wilderness of the Cowichan Valley. They provide a running document about the nature and power of the experiences that triggered and inspired the deep healing that was required. But that also add to the whole as well. I’ve also included select photographs from the forests and mountains and of wildlife on southern Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, and on Salt Spring Island, that each help to define what I’m writing about.
The sudden awareness of vast animal sentience that runs through most if not all species, and informs all life in fact. Fear-dissolving, anxiety purging moments of timelessness and perfect calm became more frequent as time went. Moments of feet on the ground for a change, and hands in the earth, have tremendous bio-physical benefit, not the least of which is the literal physical grounding of the body, which is all bio-electric. This circuit/receiver/transmitter of ours (the body) needs the exchange of electrons – negatively charged ions, with the mother of all grounding stations – the very planet we live upon. All of the above were a handful of what I took from the last six years of wilderness exploration on Vancouver Island, and, in particular, the Cowichan Valley.
Where is the Quietest Place on Earth? I found it out in the forests and among the mountains of the Cowichan Valley, and Cowichan Lake itself, where healing can happen simply by just being there and soaking it in, with no preconceived notions. By virtue of the silence in deep wilderness, I also found the quietest place within.
The Quietest Place On Earth, will be available on or before April, 2024.
