Thursday
16Jul2009
Meaning and Relatedness - Interview with Khepri Rising
Thursday, July 16, 2009 
Topics of conversation:
- Relatedness and what it really means
- Influences and inspirations
- Mythology, symbolism and ethics
- Social issues today, including family courts
- Reading from "Meaning and Relatedness"
About the Author
Khepri Rising has been a heavy equipment operator, site man, carpenter, and foreman for a site excavation and contracting home building construction firm for over a decade. He also attended several universities and earned his B.A. in Philosophy/Religion, and Psychology from the University of Charleston in West Virginia. A short chronology of major events in the authors life might include being stabbed and near fatally killed during an attempted ransom back to his father where he suffered three 7 inch deep wounds penetrating his lungs and coming within an inch of his heart when he was 18, a best friends suicide when he was 16, his child being born when he was 26, and his house nearly burning down when he was 29. After his house caught on fire, he had to concentrate more on philosophy and less on building houses because the ligaments in his right hand were severed as a result of the fire. In August of 2008 he published his first book of poems “Beadle Scat” and one month later his epic-novella “Meaning and Relatedness” was published, an experimental work focusing on themes and events which played out in the authors life up until the time he was 25, and which had taken 13 years to write. On weekends he takes care of his son Kevin. Among his favorite things in the world include: his voluminous library which is composed of over 1500 books, his coffee (cream only no sugar), and the ability to think about this life that we live.
Khepri Rising has been a heavy equipment operator, site man, carpenter, and foreman for a site excavation and contracting home building construction firm for over a decade. He also attended several universities and earned his B.A. in Philosophy/Religion, and Psychology from the University of Charleston in West Virginia. A short chronology of major events in the authors life might include being stabbed and near fatally killed during an attempted ransom back to his father where he suffered three 7 inch deep wounds penetrating his lungs and coming within an inch of his heart when he was 18, a best friends suicide when he was 16, his child being born when he was 26, and his house nearly burning down when he was 29. After his house caught on fire, he had to concentrate more on philosophy and less on building houses because the ligaments in his right hand were severed as a result of the fire. In August of 2008 he published his first book of poems “Beadle Scat” and one month later his epic-novella “Meaning and Relatedness” was published, an experimental work focusing on themes and events which played out in the authors life up until the time he was 25, and which had taken 13 years to write. On weekends he takes care of his son Kevin. Among his favorite things in the world include: his voluminous library which is composed of over 1500 books, his coffee (cream only no sugar), and the ability to think about this life that we live.
Lulu (2008)
ISBN 9780615255477
A work that can take one on a brisk stroll amidst the skin of a concentration camp victim, or ruminate solemnly the deeper questions posed by sanity and reason; a suicide becomes a matrimonial dance; a stolen cricket becomes the forgotten conscience of man; a mystery made by meaning's meaning and a search to understand the elusive, the transcendental, and ourselves. It is unique and deft, an epic cranial chameleon, a stoic empty harkening to the first questions that breath forth from spirit alone, and a poetic liturgy wrapped in the enigma of language. "Meaning and Relatedness" stands obscured by an unrelenting boundless thirst for the purview of ethics: "what is right action?"; yet naked and humbly before it. The book masks myths cloaked and eclipsed; interesting, provocative, and mind bending; yet concise, pithy, and alluring enough that nearly anyone could find appreciation for its "stitched light". Playfully serious, dark-twisted and right on! It may become the new "Beat" manual for generation X.
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