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A Reader's Journal, Volume 2: A Reader's Treasury: Read Bobby's Essay:
'87 Reviews: Various Chapters
Chapter Listing or Chronological Listing
Chapter Listing
Art Is The Process of Destruction
Chapter 1: Evolution of Consciousness
Chapter 2: Quantum Reality
Chapter 3: Psychotherapy
Chapter 4: Spiritual Science
Chapter 5: Reading for Enjoyment
Chapter 6: WritingThe Italian National Monument pictured at the top of this page reminds me that if one would understand Roman history, one must take a journey to Rome at some point. Likewise, if one would understand Carl Jung, Owen Barfield, C. S. Lewis, Milan Kundera, Rudolf Steiner or any of the authors in A Reader's Journal, Vol. 1, one must open their books and read them.
It is not always practical to acquire books of every author that one is interested in, so I offer these reviews to you, dear Reader, for the first time on the Internet. Through reading these reviews you will be able to accompany me on my journey into understanding — only know this: that your journey will be different than mine because it will be your unique journey into understanding.
Readers in countries around the world have acquired bound copies of ARJ 1. The reviews that followed the publication of ARJ 1 were posted immediately to the Internet and are still available there, and new reviews are added every month. In addition, reviews are being written and posted to A Reader's Treasury, which when completed will contain over 860 reviews of books that I have previously read some 15 to 30 years ago. This was a time before I began writing reviews of books as soon as I completed them as I do now.
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A Reader's Journal — Journeys into Understanding Preface
IN MORTIMER ADLER’S How To Read A Book book I first encountered the concept of syntopical reading. It is the reading of one book on the same subject as another book you’ve already read. This concept opened doors to ways of thinking about books for me. I began to seek and acquire books based on their similarity to previous books I’d read. . . Click Here for rest of Preface.
IntroductionONCE, MANY PARADIGM HOPS AGO, I wished to become a writer and did not know how to go about it. As I usually do when confounded, I found the answer at my elbow, in a book. This time it was Peter Elbow, and he became my writing teacher. He did so by instructing me, as I read his classic book, Writing Without Teachers. All the other courses had teachers to teach you how they write, but Peter taught me how to write by teaching me to begin, not by studying literature, not by taking grammar lessons, not by building my vocabulary, but by writing, purely and freely, on a blank piece of paper, to make that blank piece of paper my companion, my best friend, my friendie who accompanies me everywhere I go, and to whom I confide my inner-most secrets. . . Click Here for rest of Introduction.
Readers CommentsRE: YOUR REVIEW of Thucydides — Speeches of Pericles by H. G. Edinger: I do believe that history repeats itself, as you said, but the way you have taken ancient Greek history and have related to today is amazing. I can see it only when it is pointed out to me, as you have so masterfully done. I think it will make great reading in the Digest and will spark a lot of controversy with members of the Steiner98 list.
Renee Lattimore on November 5, 2002.DAMN, YOU'RE A GOOD WRITER. Back when I first started reading "self-help" books, I came across the idea that praising someone for an individual accomplishment is much better than just flattering them. So I apologize for the flattery and want to instead mention that it's really incredible that you got yourself to sit down and write all those reviews.
Jon of Instead Laugh Website on August 20, 2002.I WANT TO MENTION YOUR NEW STEINER REVIEW, "Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts." I'm in awe. I marvel at the genius that permits you to observe and comment as you do with such a wide variety of material, picking up on the thread that is tendered with a show of interest, perceptiveness and genuine participation that is extremely rare---and I might say a precious discovery! Why did I in ignorance and lack of exposure ever think that Cajuns were strictly backwoods and backward? If that were true, then a brilliant jewel has sparkled in their midst. Edward Reaugh Smith on April 24, 2002
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Author ( First Name Last Name) | Full Title of Book Reviewed |
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Itzhak Bentov | A Cosmic Book — On the Mechanics of Creation |
Jeremy Bernstein | The Life It Brings — One Physicist's Beginnings |
Richard Feynmann | QED - Quantum Electrodynamics |
N. Katherine Hayles | The Cosmic Web |
Nick Herbert | Quantum Reality |
Michael Talbot | The Holographic Universe |
Victor Weisskopf | The Joy of Insight |
Fred Alan Wolf | The Body Quantum |
Danah Zohar | The Quantum Self |
Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall | The Quantum Society |
Gary Zukav | The Seat of the Soul |
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