Category: Books
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Retrospective 2025-03
This is a retrospective of week 3, 2025 (2025-01-13–2025-01-19). This week I’ve listended to Matthew Segall,1 and interviews with Ram Dass,2 and Christopher Bache.3 I’ve also started reading William Barnard’s books Living Consciousness: The Metaphysical Vision of Henri Bergson and Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition. Matthew Segall on Psychedelics: These substances,…
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Retrospective 2024-52
This is a retrospective of week 52, 2024 (2024-12-23–2024-12-29). This week I’ve listened to interviews with Penelope Smith,1,2 James Cooke,3 and Elaine Pagels.4,5,6 I’ve also started reading Animal Talk: Interspecies Telepathic Communication by Penelope Smith, The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious and Alive by James Cooke, and Why Religion? A Personal Story by…
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Retrospective 2024-50
This is a retrospective of week 50, 2024 (2024-12-09–2024-12-15). I mentioned last week that I’ve started reading The Dreaming Way by Toko-pa Tuner. This week I’ve been reading Belonging by Toko-pa Turner. Toko-pa Turner writes: …I write to you not as an expert in belonging, but as an orphan who needed to discover that there…
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Retrospective 2024-49
This is a retrospective of week 49, 2024 (2024-12-02–2024-12-08). This week I’ve started reading Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown and The Dreaming Way by Toko-Pa Turner. Learning takes place not just in the head but in the heart (Macy & Brown) through dreaming (Turner). Trust your own experience, discernment, and…
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Book Review: They Knew
They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent by Sarah Kendzior discusses the difference between conspiracy and conspiracy theories. “A conspiracy is an agreement of powerful actors to secretly carry out a plan that protects their own interests”. The mafia is a conspiracy, white-collar crime is another conspiracy. War and espionage rely upon…
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Book Review: Hiding in Plain Sight
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior is the story of Donald Trump’s rise to power. This story has been “visible without being seen”. Corruption, crime, and racism are all connected and “shape everyday American life”. Powerful individuals have for a long time acted “against…
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Retrospective 2024-44
This is a retrospective of week 44, 2024 (2024-10-21–2024-11-03). This week I’ve finished reading Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America by Mary C. Richards and The Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner. I wrote the following posts during the week: I think Rudolf Steiner focuses too much on the role of conceptual thinking in…
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Retrospective 2024-43
This is a retrospective of week 43, 2024 (2024-10-14–2024-10-20). I’ve continued reading Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America by Mary C. Richards, and started reading The Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner this week. Reading Steiner raises a number questions: I’ve also listened to Brian Gray’s leading thoughts from Applied Anthroposophy during the week.…