Reflections of a Mad, Mad World

About the Book

TRILOGY BOOK FOUR includes three recent books from my twenty years of writing. Being a philosophical book-writer, dealing with world-view and value systems, I get to take time doing something that is considered the work of “men of leisure.” While it may not be the toughest of jobs, I assure you that most days I am worn out from just thinking about it. And can I conclude anything yet? Sometimes I think I am going in reverse! Reflections of a Mad, Mad World is the title of the book, and it is the headline work followed by two more books, Remaking Michael and Forty Songs. All three were written with you (the reader and fellow life-mate) in mind. If you wonder about the madness and chaos that in the world today, and what you can do about it, maybe you will benefit from reading Reflections of a Mad, Mad World (Book One). This work addresses the nutty, whacky world in which we live, and suggests ways to cope. If you are trying to turn over a new leaf, and need some insight and direction, then Remaking Michael (Book Two) might be for you. In my personal travels through life, I have been remade over and over again – it’s fun! There are always two sides to every coin. My book, Forty Songs, takes on 20 negative points of view, and counterbalances them with 20 more points that are positive. You be the judge as you weigh the evidence when the matter of Life itself is placed on trial. I am hopeful that this three-books-in-one volume will be rewarding and beneficial for you. On my web site, HowISeeTheWorld.com, questions and answers about Life that continue to crop up in the human mind are addressed. Come to the site and see what I am talking about!

About the Author

Michael Jean Nystrom-Schut has been writing and publishing for some three decades now but trying to figure out the meaning to life’s deepest questions for even far longer than that. With several years’ background and experience in education, business and real-life circumstances thus-far confronted, the questions, in his mind, still outweigh the answers.

            Michael has spent many years piecing together a worldview that he considers to be livable, effective and reasonable. Failing to find this from the religious and cultural communities, or from many other more traditional means, he set out on a private, eclectic path of personal enlightenment. He now understands that “the path…the journey…” is individual and unique for each of us.

            A working philosophy of everyday life is important for all. Michael knows that, and has been active to date in writing over thirty books in an effort to create a pattern of anthological thought that will provide his readers with all of what they need to encounter life in a successful and meaningful way.

            Michael travels back and forth to work and home, spending two months in the United States, and then leaving for two months to his Costa Rican offices, all year long. He actively labors for his not-for-profit, 501(c)3 corporation (The Center for Health and Human Services) out of offices near the rain forests of Costa Rica, Central America, helping many through various programs who are in need of such help.

With a continuous passion for this written work, his quest to leave behind a comprehensive legacy of philosophy and life, in book summary form, is, by his own admission, an endless one.