Report to Greco

I have read this twice, and it's time for a third read. The most powerful autobiography I have ever read. The personal and spiritual revelations contained within stretch the limits of one's intellectual and emotional capacity. There will be no spoilers, because it's not kind of book. There really is no plot, unless a human life can be reduced to one, but there is wonder and excitement and grief and anxiety ... and love. Kazantzakis was the best philosopher of the 20th century who never called himself a philosopher. He wove the personal, the historical, and the spiritual all together. He was both a champion and and a critic of mankind's spiritual progress. And he was a realist, almost an existentialist -- but not quite. He believed that morality was not a human invention, that it was inherent in the universe and in us.