Gabriel Meyer Releases Inspirational Book

Gabriel Meyer’s work in music, activism, and spirituality is pretty unparalleled. He is able to compound multiple complex ideas into impressive volumes, resulting in the ability for him to show – not tell – one the path to peace. His poetic allegories for what separates us, and what can be an elixir to that isolation are on full display with the release of his new book, entitled On the Verge of the Verb: An Autobiographical Fiction of Prophetic Sorts. I love his ability to tell a story, whether it’s regarding the origination of a specific precept, a personal experience, or a discovery along his sojourns across the globe. The book in and of itself proves to be a love letter to the universality of human experience.

“Binary classification usually takes the wonder away from any breathing being. We become as lifeless and inert as the tone of our ‘inquisitor.’ It’s uncomfortable for most people to let our identity hang loosely in their perception. In general, people have a hard time relating to someone they cannot pin down and ‘describe’ or ‘ex-plain,’ someone who doesn’t fit in one of the well-organized drawers of our brains’ filing cabinets. Furthermore, most humans never redesign their brains. They stay with the same interior decoration and look-alike furniture for most of their lives. Their conditioning of learned concepts, ideas, identities, stays as frozen as Walt Disney after death,” Meyer writes. “…as I write these words, this book has caught up with my present. It has ended its life as an artistic project. The book has fully synced with my life and is becoming an integral part of it. And for you, too! Yes, you, reading these words. You have become part of the ‘Big Vision’.”

AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Verge-Verb-Autobiographical-Fiction-Prophetic/dp/1960090844

The Big Vision is Meyer’s articulation of the universality we’re all attempting to return to. Whether through religion, profession, self-improvement, or enlightenment, people are constantly searching for meaning in their lives. Searching for an intrinsic sense of connection that more and more, statistically so, is lacking in everyday life. What Meyer advocates for is the idea that what we’re searching for doesn’t mandate a door for us to walk through. Rather, it’s about expanding our horizons regarding what is already there. A particular example in the book reinforcing this is Meyer’s recounting of a prominent event at Jerusalem’s Kollek stadium.

“As the game ended, a big message lit up the sky right above the stadium. It began gliding through the clouds just as the first ones made their way towards the Old City, passing through the Sultan’s Pools,” Meyer writes. “It twinkled phosphorescent, a blend of watery fire: Peacemaking doesn’t mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without crushing the evildoer, the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight, but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice. It is about a revolution of Love that is big enough to set both the oppressed and the oppressors free.”

Nicole Killian