hi cosmicadvocate, thanks so much for your comment! I've been wondering years about his worldview as I recognized much of it from my own questions and answers.

hi cosmicadvocate, thanks so much for your comment! I've been wondering years about his worldview as I recognized much of it from my own questions and answers. If only he'd be alive! The link is fortunately still present in the internet archive, but if you have a mobi version handy that would be nice for offline reading on my ipad kindle app. You can sent it to fsieFKen at gmail. There is more to him then simple creativity, he was an academic philosopher and romantic, yearning for the spiritual and his mystic side really shows in this book. There is some similarity with other writers like the dutch Frederik van Eeden (psychiatrist) and his book "The Deeps of Deliverance", Herman Hesse, Kahlil Gibran and Dostojevski. "Olaf Stapledon married Agnes Zena Miller, a first cousin from Australia, on July 16, 1919, at Friends Meeting House, a Quaker establishment at Reigate, Surrey. Agnes, the oldest of four children, was born in New Zealand on May 25, 1894, the daughter of Frank Edward and Margaret Barnard Miller. Frank was a brother of Olaf's mother, Margaret the daughter of Charles Barnard, headmaster of a Quaker school in Yorkshire..." Stapledon spent four years in the Friends Quaker Ambulance Corps. "Although he was involved with socialist groups and contributed some articles to leftist journals, Stapledon's earliest literary aspirations were poetic. His first book was Latter-Day Psalms, published in 1914 by Henry Young and Sons, Ltd., of Liverpool." Stapledon's writing reflected intense wrestling with concepts of God and faith. Also: Olaf's agnosticism also derived from his parents. His father apparently subscribed to no sect at all, so any direct religious influence would therefore have had to come from his mother. She was a Unitarian... In his mature years Stapledon denied that he was a Christian, although the increasing strain of mysticism in his work from the 1940's on indicated a deep-rooted sense of religiosity. [Source: Olaf Stapledon: The Man Behind the Works, by Sam Moskowitz.] http://www.adherents.com/people/ps/Olaf_Stapledon.html http://www.adherents.com/people/ps/Olaf_Stapledon.html