Eyes Wide Open

by George Erickson

Overview

George Erickson - pilot, bricklayer, philanthropist, dentist, welder and author of the pro-science, best seller "True North," and "Back to the Barrens: On the Wing with da Vinci and Friends" plus "Time Traveling with Science and the Saints," returns with "Eyes Wide Open," a semi-autobiographical anthology of new and published fiction and non-fiction based on a life that began without religion, became deeply involved, but returned to rationality as president of the Minnesota Humanists and a former director of the American Humanist Association, Washington, DC.

With stories like Working Girl, Crystals Lite and the Minnesota Trapper, he addresses the human condition, and with op-eds like Glenn Beck - Where Were You?, Why Horses Laugh, Single-Payer Now! and Parochaid: Sounds Like KoolAid - Tastes Like Bile!, he speaks truth to power across a span of 30 years.

Drawing on sages from Plato to a skeptic named Carlin, Erickson scrutinizes religion, sex, politics, science, nature, humor, death, love and war with his "Eyes Wide Open," filling the pages with stories from a life well led.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014113663
Publisher:	Humanist Press, LLC
Publication date:	02/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	823 KB

About the Author

George Erickson is a former president of the Minnesota Humanists, a past director of the American Humanist Association, a recent Vice-President of the Minnesota Seaplane Pilots' Assoc. and a former chairman of the Worthington, MN Airport Commission and the Nobles County, MN Art Center. He has served on the New Brighton, MN Environmental Quality Commission. Since 1967 he has made 38 flights through Alaska, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, northern Quebec and Australia.

George has published many articles on a variety of subjects and written three books: the best seller, “True North: Exploring the Great Wilderness by Bush Plane,” the recently released sequel, “Back to the Barrens: on the Wing with da Vinci & Friends,” and “Time Traveling with Science and the Saints.”

His “True North” and his “Bush Flying for Beginners” presentations, based on his books and his northern travels, have been seen all across the US and Canada, including the annual convention of Wilderness Physicians in Big Sky, Montana, and repeatedly at AirVenture, the annual convention of the Experimental Aircraft Assoc. in Oshkosh, WI.

Editorial Reviews

"Eyes Wide Open" is a cornucopia of vignettes, parables and poetry -- a feast for the rational, inquiring mind. A boy checks his trap-lines and comes face-to-face with the reality of death. A passenger cruising the Spiritual Sea jumps overboard and swims to freedom on the Rational Islands as Erickson charts a course through the "demon-haunted world" of our times.

Beth Chambers

George Erickson has written a real gem: a serious book in which he doesn't take himself too seriously, a humorous book with important progressive messages. No one who reads Eyes Wide Open will be able to maintain the fiction that atheists have no sense of humor. Had Moses emerged from Mt. Sinai with "St. George's Commandments," all 13 of them, what a wonderful past couple of millennia this would have been.

Herb Silverman

George Erickson's captivating prose cleverly weaves together stories filled with humanistic values of love, education and humor as he eloquently puts life's lessons to paper.

Margaret Downey

Erickson's insightful incursions into religion, politics, philosophy, history, atheism and social issues are totally enjoyable. Some might make you cry and some will make you laugh, but none will bore you.

Mel Lipman

Eyes Wide Open is like a box of fine chocolates: When you dip into it, you're never sure what you'll find - but you'll enjoy it. This tome deserves a large audience.

Rob Boston