EveryOne the timeless Myth of 'Everyman' reborn

ISBN 0-385-13329-4EveryOnethe timeless Myth of Everyman rebornhandwritten and with drawings byFrederick Franckauthor of The Zen of Seeinga shout of affirmation for Now and the Year 2000... a book to be read aloud, alone, or better, with a few friends...The classic Everyman, thought to be the 15th-century play, archetypically Christan and medieval, is, as Frederick Franck discovered in the Far East, more than a thousand years older: It is based on a Buddhist parable predating the birth of Christ. To the author, who saw it as a child in his native Holland, it s a universal myth, one that presents an Image of Man which i both Buddhist and Christian and which carries a crucial message for all who search for meaning. Franck wrote his contemporary version of the Everyman as an act of faith and - in a second, linked act of faith - built and sculpted a trans-religious center for meditation, Pacem in Terris, over the ruins of a 18th century mill in Warwick, New York. Pacem in Terris is dedicated to the spirit of John XXIII, who Franck - as he explains in this book - honors as Christian bodhisattva. An artist whose work is part of the permanent collection of a score of museums here and abroad, and a doctor who was on the staff of Albert Schweitzer's hospital in Africa, Frederick Franck is the author of many books on eastern and western art and religion.Cover Drawing and Lettering by Frederick Franck with layout by Hideo IetakaDoubleday & Company, incGarden City, New York 1978Contents: I A dedicationII EveryOneIII The Myth that was my Guru *Appendix: the 15th Century EverymanThe drawings in this book are not illustrations. They were drawn in America and Europe while I was working on the play. Its subject matter and its implications never left me and colored my very way of looking at people and places.* Although The myth that was my guru happens to follow the text of EveryOne it is not a postscript. It is the story of what compelled me to write this contemporary variation on a timeless theme, and of the discoveries it led to.Once more- as if I were some medieval monk - I have to write this book by hand, person-to-person to you who, as I, as EveryOne, must answer these questions without very lives before we die:Who am I? What is it that makes me into a Human being?EveryOne is written to be read Aloudalone, or better:with a few friends for...it is not intended for the cold intellect,but to be visualized by the Inner eyeto be listened to by the Inner ear,to be experienced in The heartIt is more than a 15th century play revived: it is a perennial myth called back to life... for NOWA myth enacted is a rite!This rite is a celebration of the birth of the True Selfthat is neither dependent on,nor independent ofego...It is a celebration of human life...