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Poems of spiritual insight that reflect personal experience, often expressed in concepts from Eastern metaphysical philosophy as well as with interfaith concepts and ideas about our common humanity. Written by a student of yoga and Indian spiritual thought since the mid-1970s, and influenced by studies at an interfaith seminary since having been ordained as an interfaith minister in 2011. A good number of these pieces in rhyming verse, while some, like the Conscious Constitution may not really qualify as a poem at all, though it certainly takes poetic license in combining Eastern spiritual concepts with a sort of a mash-up of elements of the Constitution of the United States, and the Gettysburg Address. These renderings are gleaned from life, as expressions of personal-mostly inner-experience. They reflect themes, events, and musings that became so strong as to bid the author to commit them to this form, and now to share them with readers.

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Poetic License: Reflections and Renderings is a gift to the universe. Larry has shared a few poems with me in the past but this collection is a feast! I've known him for years as a serious sociallyinvolved intellectual on a path of spiritual discovery. But in this collection, I met another side of him: the poet who does not describe or explain the truth, but more honestly alludes to it. If poetry is a way of speaking beyond words, Larry is a master. There is no seraphic spiritual sentiment but rather a gutsy spirituality embedded in social tragedies, tender love, societal conflict, spiritual seeking, and the ecumenical search for an elusive truth. Like spiritual compasses, Larry's poems are not the destination, but they point a way forward. -DANIEL S. BENVENISTE, PhD, Psychoanalyst, former Director of two training programs for doctorallevel psychology students, author of The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna and W. Ernest Freud

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Lawrence L. Schwartz is the Production Manager of IPBooks. He has been a student of yoga and Eastern philosophy, as well as Western psychology, since the mid-1970s. He is the former typesetter for the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA), a position he held for 10 years in the 1990s. Shortly thereafter, he and his wife Tamar began an independent publishing company known as IPBooks (IPBooks.net), as well as forming a business partnership. In 2011, he enrolled in the interfaith seminary: All Faiths Seminary International (see AllfaithsSeminary.org), and was ordained as an interfaith minister. Recording and distributing monthly classes to the student body, faculty, and alumni, has maintains a position as the Media Manager for the school. Tamar and Larry continue their full-time work on IPBooks.net (now incorporated as IPBooks Inc) as well as continuing to facilitate conferences for mental health professionals-something they have also done since the late 1990s. Tamar and Larry work from their home in Sunnyside, Queens, NY.

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