On Another Planet They Can Save Me

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Title: On Another Planet They Can Save Me
Author: Lieke  Marsman
Category: Biography & Memoir, Free Will & Determinism, Cancer
Language: English | 144 str. Pages | ISBN: 9781646223558


Description:
An electrifying and genre-defying memoir charting Lieke Marsman's unflinching journey through a terminal cancer diagnosis and a raw search for meaning in a world that offers none
In 2017, poet and novelist Lieke Marsman was diagnosed with a rare type of bone cancer. After being told her illness was incurable, Marsman embarks on an intellectual journey that challenges the limits of the rational, secular worldview she once trusted. As she undergoes radiotherapy, immunotherapy, and multiple surgeries-including the amputation of her arm-she turns to theology, philosophy, mythology, and science in an urgent quest for hope.
Marsman weaves the arguments of Christian thinkers with quantum physics, and the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein and William James with Greek mythology. Her research and reflection eventually transforms into an obsession with UFOs-and the manifold implications for us on Earth if life does, in fact, exist somewhere out there. She...