“This book is an invitation to discover the living, mystical world that our epoch ever strives to conceal. But that world is the true world, questioningly and contemplatively attending to which has been Michael Martin’s life’s work. Thus this book moves seamlessly from thoughtful presentations of those thinkers that matter most to Martin to autobiographical reflections, amounting to a deeply personal sequence of meditations to which any open-hearted reader will want to return repeatedly. At times moving, at other times hilarious, Martin leads us through a veritable forest of initiatic mysteries, from Slavophile sophiology to English folk traditions, from Dionysian rituals to deer-hunting, and so much more. And when we begin to see the world as he sees it, we behold its ‘nuptial structure,’ and enter the great cosmic love affair with the Creator which is the purpose of our existence.” —SEBASTIAN MORELLO, author of Woodland Philosophy: Meditations on Hunting, Hiking, and Holiness
“We could be forgiven for thinking that the world is losing its way. The eternal question of how to remain steady in the chaos and to be both in the world and yet reject that which harms our humanity finds revelatory answers in Michael Martin’s latest work, Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand, a convincing defence of the Romantic reality behind the metaphor. The key insight here is that of the sheer reality of what is so often encased in fiction, and that in truth a surer footing is more possible in the world when rooted in magic, imagination, and poetry—which are one and the same playground where the human meets the divine. To ‘immanentize the imagination,’ as Martin declares, is ultimately to be satisfied with nothing less than a new renaissance. Martin both details and recommends poetic immersion in life, in all its nuances and subtle correspondences, sensitively orienting his readers to perceive what alters their course and what nourishes it—whereby goodness itself is simultaneously the ultimate white magic and divine.” —L.C. McCORMACK, author of Magic & Melancholia: Recovering the Soul After Modernity
