The Dream of Gotama

A book by Walter Elliott

Comments by Judy Chard (Former Editor of Devon Life Magazine)

Surely the aim of every writer in whatever genre is to give the reader enjoyment, to make them long to turn the pages to see what comes next so that their emotions change like cloud shadows on a cornfield, at this Walter Elliott is a past-master. This was so much my personal experience after reading the opening lines that for two days and the night in between I forgot the world with its necessities for eating, working and sleeping, something I don't remember ever happening with any book I have read before. I was hooked until the last page to which with enormous self control, I did not refer until I actually reached it.

I was meeting Jung, Freud, Shakespeare, Aldous Huxley among many down the centuries, sometimes he was so intensely serious and convincing, facing me with realism that much of the horror – terror even – he produced, was happening in everyery item of news I read or saw on television – the creation of what he describes as artificial intelligence – then as with all gifted paintters, as he is as well as writer, he contrasts shapes and sizes, colour and tone so a kind of avant-garde portrait is created of the seriousness of today, then immediately, tongue in cheek and with supreme humour he demolishes that scene so that the tears of laughter ran down my cheeks into my rapidly cooling coffee.

He puts a new perspective on life – past, present and future and then tells you not to take llife too seriously as he then poses the question – is our frenetic waay of life grasping for material possessions causing us to miss out on real values. Will Big Mother outwit even Big Brother of Orwell's 1984.

I envy anyone who is about to come to the first few pages of this amazing work, which it is – not simply a book. He asks " Is the image of man a space-time bubble wrought from cosmic eternity to experience consciousness for but a moment, each having a brief hour before his finite bubble vanishes for another form…" "Man is Eternity cloaked in Time" – and remember this man is A Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, once employed in the design and development of rocket motors, he is also a Member of the United Society of Artists, etc., with paintings in collections in America.The paintings included in the book are strikingly beautiful and tender in many cases with striking use of colour.

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