Get Real

Michael Hickey is a graduate of Northeastern University and a Master Of Divinity Studies graduate of Weston Jesuit, a Boston College theological school. He retired as a successful entrepreneur to become a full time writer and poet. He is the author of Get Wisdom (2006) and Get Goodness: Virtue is the Power to Do Good (2011). Hickey writes a weekly column called "Words Of Wisdom" for The Naples Daily News and teaches courses on religion, philosophy, and poetry at Hodges University, CLL and Florida Gulf Coast University. His wife, Theresa, is a published poet, and in their forty-four years together they have raised four happy and "well-adjusted" children into adulthood.

• Section One-RealityPrefaceChapter One: Reality of BeingChapter Two: Roles of Truth and BeliefChapter Three: Reality of LifeChapter Four: Imagining the RealChapter Five: The Final Earthly RealityChapter Six: The Ultimate RealityChapter Seven: Self-RealizingSection Two-MysteryChapter Eight: Mystery?Chapter Nine: Ancient Mystery CultsChapter Ten: Early Christianity: Another Mystery CultChapter Eleven: SacramentalityChapter Twelve: Revelation: The Unveiling of GodChapter Thirteen: MythChapter Fourteen: Old Testament MysteryChapter Fifteen: New Testament MysteryChapter Sixteen: Mystery of SufferingChapter Seventeen: Miracles MysteryChapter Eighteen: The Hidden KingdomChapter Nineteen: Those Peculiar ParablesChapter Twenty: MysticismChapter Twenty-One: Two Types of Theological MysteriesChapter Twenty-Two: The Mystery of the FemaleChapter Twenty-Three: A Beginning and End Times MysterySection Three-Reality Meets Mystery/ "This is That"Chapter Twenty-Four: Unity of OppositesChapter Twenty-Five: Personal and UniversalChapter Twenty-Six: Matter and SpiritChapter Twenty-Seven: Nature and GraceChapter Twenty-Eight: Natural and SupernaturalChapter Twenty-Nine: Heaven and EarthChapter Thirty: Time and EternityChapter Thirty-One: Knowing and UnknowingChapter Thirty-Two: Consciousness and UnconsciousnessChapter Thirty-Three: Humanity and Divinity: The Cross +Chapter Thirty-Four: Man the Reality and God the MysteryChapter Thirty-Five: God the Reality and Man the MysteryChapter Thirty-Six: Self-TranscendingChapter Thirty-Seven: Conclusion: God Mysteriously In Us and Us Really In God