'Listen To What?' airs and shares that which unenlightened, ignorant and arrogant bullies did to us, which was all too frequently excused in the name of progress. It reveals their undeveloped mentality and discusses a safe and positive outlook for the traumatised inner child.

‘Listen To What?’ lays bare a Mother’s experience at the death of her child and takes a satirical look at life in general.

The book is the story of a child whose spirit, mind and body were destroyed by two orphan asylums and three foster homes. It is about how he survived , silent and alone, with no one to turn in a world that shunned him for being silent and alone.

The author's experience extends from living in a slum basement, in orphan asylums and foster homes, in the Civilian Conservation Corps and in combat naval service during World War II. With the "G. I. Bill" he entered college, and taught in a trade high school, and in college. He taught philosophy, philosophy of religion, ethics, and psychology.

The author quit high school while failing all subjects, yet went on to earn two college degrees. With no opportunity to read books, hear the media, or converse with others, yet he published seventeen philosophical and psychological books, and ten poetry books. They all relate to his philosophy. He did this, with no one to support him. With its philosophical and psychological themes this book should be of interest to philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, teachers, parents, and anyone else interested in human nature.

The book is about how the author lived in imprisoning institutions until age twenty-seven, with no exposure to the outside world. It is about how he existed alone with a total ignorance of normal social living and with no one to guide him. Out of a total ignorance and an incapacity to move the author had a revelation that turned his dark night into bright day. He had a purpose in life, a destiny to fulfill, and he fulfilled it as a fated philosopher.

The First Call presents a cogent answer to the oldest and most intractable puzzle of civilization: the question of human identity.

The answer has always been under our very noses. However, as author Bernard Eceru posits, it has been glossed over due, in part, to man's vast fascination with material reality.

More crucially, however, it is that very inquisitiveness which raises the dilemma of identity that has to come to terms with itself – like an eye having to look at itself! The question and answer lie in the same essence.

That volition turns out to be Consciousness, which indeed vouches for itself. The proof of it is one's self-recognition.

From the ashes of broken trust and a personal inward upheaval, the author's perceptive spirit comes to this realization. Then, lo and behold, all aspects of knowledge fall into place, reconciled.

Consciousness is essentially intelligence. It is a dimensionless reality unfettered by space, time nor matter. This profound reality carries with it the human form, imbuing our bodies with unique sentience. That imbuement is what makes man a soul.

Consciousness is the quintessence of man's spirituality and the spring of the intellect. It informs both the sciences and the arts.

The First Call shatters several potent myths of our age. Most significantly, the material paradigm turns out to be a poisoned chalice, an old wine skin that could neither permit nor contain a holistic conception of knowledge.

The book points to a new dawn, underlining the sanctity of the individual and common ground by which men and women would find fulfillment in each other.

Man's essence, which also happens to be the reflection of the nature of God, is verily the center of knowledge. In self-realization we as well come to grasp the nature of evil.