Category: philosophy
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The Ongoing Drama of Multiple Lives
A Dweller on Two Planets Or, The Dividing of the Way, by Phylos the Thibetan Yes, this book is as odd and arcane as the above title and author suggest. I happened on it during my current preoccupation with the supposed sunken continent of Atlantis, a fascination I’ll soon lay by. But for the moment,…
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Your Thoughts, Emotions, and the Novel
I’m currently reading a book that I shall post on soon, but I want to remark on one of its core aspects now so as not to distract from the review later. The first novels in English, published as early as the young 1700s – Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels, and Don Quixote, for instance –…
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My Books of ‘Twenty-three
What a year ‘twenty-three was! I had moved back to Georgia after two decades in North Carolina – at the behest of my step-kids. I’m old, they said, you need to be nearby so we can make sure you’re taken care of. Well, I didn’t feel so old until I undertook an interstate move to…
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A Good Place To Start the Yogic Journey
Inner Engineering – A Yogi’s Guide to Joy, by Sadhguru I held this book aside for almost a year before reading it, determined to tie up this particular loose end before the beginning of 2024. But first, by way of explanation regarding the nature of India’s holy personages. They are not religious people as we…
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A Few Things…
I recently came across a book entitled, “A Whisper of Poison,” touted to be the first of an “all new dystopian teen survival series.” Teen survival? Teens reading dystopian novels? I sincerely hope the popularity of such novels in the teen genre is due to these young readers’ detachment from such views of the future.…
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Tough Time for Writers
Print book sales continue to slow, or so I read. And the Hollywood writers strike will only exacerbate things, I fear, as AI begins to overtake acting as well as writing. Where this will end no one knows. Soon AI will insist that it can write better novels than a human. It may even get…
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A New Old Testament
The Eden Conspiracy, byPaul Wallis I started not to post on this book, but then something kept nagging at me that this could be important. And I have to admit, one page after another kept confirming this eerie feeling. First, however the author’s bona fides. Paul Wallis is an Anglican (Episcopal to Americans) priest and…
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A Couple of Revolutionary Thoughts
It’s July 4, 2023, the day we in the U.S. celebrate as Independence Day. For many it’s a day off, spent with barbecue and beer, or a day at the lake or beach, or for many, finding some military pageant or other to watch or take part in. All too few, I fear, will reflect…
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The Circle of Life – English Style
Lessons, by Ian McEwan A journalist, given a limit of a hundred or so words to review this book, might have written thusly: Roland Baines survived a childhood more damaged than most. Still, he managed to develop his gift for music, and despite wife Alissa leaving him and their son, Livingston, he persevered, made a…
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The Ways of Publishing, Part 4
More and more people are wanting to work at home, and so industries re popping up that make working “remote” easier. We’re here today to concern ourselves with publishing, so what’s the connection? That it’s never been easier to publish your own work. But there are pitfalls galore. I remember being a member of a…