Jeffrey B. Holl's poetic and philosophic explorations give qualitative and quantitative ontological, political, economic, social, and aesthetic perspectives on human experience—with a proclivity for the enhancements of an optics that determines the human will only insofar as it is within an emancipatory rapport of a visual spectrum that coheres in a consciousness that is adaptive to the senses, and undermined by the imprecise conditions presupposed by the unconscious Self—adjuring to the position that a coordinated state of rest is identifiable as a necessary condition for the human understanding. Jeffrey's insight resonates with the lucidity of someone that is equally evocative of the elegiac potency wherein it is conceived, while particular to what riddles folly with an uncanny ability to unify a sense of knowledge with a sense of the absurd—thereby creating a sense of certainty within the reader that can only be resolved within the paradox of their own Being as it struggles between the existential frailties that may only be transformed through an opulence of blessings and desires—developing a sense of immunity to the former upon the page as though they had been articulated within a mind-soul that sensed what reality in fact were. Such as the rich literary and musical background to which the progeny of the post-modern age had been gifted, at times the works are considerable of a former time, while remaining abstract and bound to the concepts of the transformation of society as expressed throughout a more esoteric use of language than simple and easy to comprehend. Born in 1970 in Brandon, Canada, he had blossomed into a young artist by the age of four; by the age of seven he had discovered drawing and was convinced that he wanted to be an artist when he grew up; but at the age of ten, his older brother convinced him to share in the cost of a guitar and he heard The Beatles—then realizing that he wanted to be a musician for the rest of his life. He struggled to learn the guitar—progressing very rapidly—and soon after was writing words and music and playing in various rock bands that he himself formed—with names such as "Sentinel", "Hellion", and "Exodus"—all names that he found in the bible. He continued in his musical progress throughout his teens, but when his voice changed he suffered several embarrassing moments while in front of an audience that gave him a complex about his ability to perform—shattering his confidence as the front man of a rock outfit. Secretly, with the encouragement of his English teachers in high school he began to pursue writing as an alternative. However, he did persist in his musical pursuits and won a Battle of the Bands at age seventeen—yielding free studio time that gave him the will to desire a career in recording. Relocating to Vancouver in 1989, he attended a music performance and recording college that led to the establishment of relationships with aspiring professionals that lasted many years.From 1990 to 2001 Jeffrey pursued songwriting, performance, and record-production professionally—also garnering nominations for awards—but the psychological stress of a career in an industry with definitive answers to the postmodern leitmotifs of the 1990s devoured his self-confidence, and led to an inability to meet the demands being placed upon him by an invisible other, which he decided was acting in opposition to his own natural talent and subjective truth. This—paired with a burgeoning interest in philosophy that coordinated a desire to change directions in life (as his own artistic efforts seemed to be in the process of a sabotage that he had only imagined through the tales of sorcerers acting in lieu of the architects of a highly commerce-driven mandate issued by economic powers structuring vast and elaborate traps to destroy the possibilities being offered by an overstimulated economy)—provided the impetus. Once again, Jeffrey turned to writing for a creative outlet—and though he continued to practice and write music, he pulled himself away from his past and relocated to Winnipeg—where he continued to study philosophy in an attempt to regain full control over his mind and to discover an inner terrain where he could fully develop his ideas. While working on his poetry in 2002, he began to develop a novella and a screenplay. This took most of his attentions away from generating a truly original musical vision that he had once sought in a genre that he were secretly in the process of abandoning, and he quickly realized that writing was taking over completely. But he persisted in his efforts to practice and compose—sometimes for up to ten hours per day—though he became altogether voluntarily inactive in the economic musical field.At this point, Jeffrey began to succumb to the demons that had offset his sense of Self for so many years. A long period of convalescence followed and he had actually ended up bed-ridden for nearly five years.He managed to survive despite the conditions of this illness, and in 2008, was able to self-publish his first book of poetry:"Poesicosophy", at Authorhouse. Seemingly brought back to life metaphysically by this venture with a presence online, he managed to produce two more books: "The Beings of Consolation" and "The Rage of the Aphelion", in 2010 and 2011 respectively. Three more works followed—"Never To Be Forsaken" 2013, "To the Earth and Beyond Time" 2015 and "Love and Death Beyond the Game" 2016. Between 2018 and 2019 he published three new collections of poetry: "Visions This Terrain",2018, "We Exist as Synecdoche", 2018, and "Departures Reflecting Becoming Arrivals", 2019—all of which were from a long backlog of previously unpublished work. Whilst undergoing its re-visitation through the rigours of academic training and apprenticeship in the philosophical disciplines and arts, between 2012 and 2018, Jeffrey furthered his lexicon of literary pursuits with the publication of the work "The Dialectical Self-Concept of Symbolic Being". While this work is perhaps at variance with the Zeitgeist of the 21st Century's complex that imposes sanctions upon Western thought as a measure of the potency of a renewed resource of a formal ontology acting as the conceptual abstraction of a more objective reality in contemporary human science, the methods by which reality is actuated in this work are never without a sense of progress from the originary functionalism upon the nexus of the social transformation possible of an obfuscated representational truth—offering a filiation with the prospectus of an authenticated transmission of ethical content, nested in the logic of self-identity and verifiable ontological signification. Two short works of philosophy followed, "An Eidetic Lifeworld" and "A Politics of the id". As of June 2019 a new work has appeared that is in fact a sixteen-year-old project that he began at the age of thirty-two entitled "Contemporary Elucidations in Thought: Hegel and Schopenhauer's millennial age". While discovering an old essay he had written had been preserved, he added chapters and published it under his own imprint, I.C.H. Publishing. In 2020, Jeffrey published a philosophical treatise entitled "Words to the Age" which he had first began to compose in 2016, while the world were watching the U.S. very closely with an election upon the horizon. It is simply comprised of personal philosophical essays that depart from any political agenda whatsoever, while remaining true to the discipline of metaphysics as a way of expressing the nature of being as existence over universal lanscapes of consiousness, whereupon the spirit of the people is realized through individuated syntactical contexts not prohibitive of the personal articulations of what drive the public's perception of what is in effect definitively going on. The first sections of this short book were written during the crises happening at the time in 2020, and come together to form a complete picture of the past four years from the vantage point of an individual in an activated state of self-awareness in relation to the world as both concept and totality. An ongoing philosophical project began later that same year, producing the book "The Nature of Self", which was written in February 2021—from a resourced horizon of global actualities—funnelled into a creative endeavor that is shaped through classical attempts to resuscitate an ontological rendering of the primordial Self from its origins upon horizons of natural, historical and cultural signification through an objectification thereto. The first edition is now beginning to offer readers a restored vision for the future of ontology as a natural science. Following in 2022, the sequel to “The Nature of Self” was published—The Nature of Other”, offering a glimpse into a possible epistemological worldview of “evidentiary relations”, while working toward a more sustainable ethical vision for Western society, published in 2023, “The Civil Condition” which elicits an ideological manifold of “idyllic realism” within the existential proposition that interpretive meaning and purposive intentionality will authentically work toward horizons of progressive universalization through a realization of the evolutionary developmental preservation necessary for the constitution of humanitarian ideals within the century now upon us. Jeffrey endeavours to remain active publishing and occasionally blogging and is interested in propelling more original written work forward in years to come.Read more about this authorRead less about this author