Abstract:
Portrait of the Artist endows dozens of poems varying in styles, lengths, and content, a mantra-style prose searching to find inner calm and understanding, another longer didactic prose about thoughts and their independent organic nature, an action packed short story about a girl with super powers who becomes a tool of vengeance against a ruthless cyborg, a thriller horror short story about a fatally cursed group of children, an essay arguing that extended human longevity is not only possible but awaiting the responsible believer, and one final essay disambiguating ancient mysteries such as karma, enlightenment, and afterlife by connecting the dots between science and religion.