Quote for the Freedom Month of July:

Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to critics.
— Ambrose Bierce

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2000: INAUGURAL YEAR: Jun  #1 Jul  #2, Aug  #3, Sept  #4, Oct  #5, Nov  #6, Dec  #7,

2001: Jan  #8,  Feb  #9,   Mar #10, Apr #11, May #12, Jun #13, Jul #14, Aug #15, Sep #16, Oct #17, Nov #18, Dec #19
2002: Jan #20, Feb #21, Mar #22, Apr #23, May #24, Jun #25, Jul #26, Aug #27, Sep #28, Oct #29, Nov #30, Dec #31
2003: Jan #32, Feb #33, Mar #34, Apr #35, May #36, Jun #37, Jul #38, Aug #39, Sep #40, Oct #41, Nov #42, Dec #43
2004: Jan #44, Feb #45, Mar #46, Apr #47, May #48, Jun #49, Jul #50, Aug #51, Sep #52, Oct #53, Nov #54, Dec #55
2005: Jan#051,Feb#052,Mar#053,Apr#054,May#055,Jun#056,Jul#057,Aug#058,Sep#059,Oct#05a,Nov#05b,Dec#05c
2006: Jan#061,Feb#062,Mar#063,Apr#064,May#065,Jun#066,Jul#067,Aug#068,Sep#069,Oct#06a,Nov#06b,Dec#06c
2007: Jan#071,Feb#072,Mar#073,Apr#074,May#075,Jun#076,Jul#077,Aug#078,Sep#079,Oct#07a,Nov#07b,Dec#07c
2008: Jan#081,Feb#082,Mar#083,Apr#084,May#085,Jun#086,Jul#087,Aug#088,Sep#089,Oct#08a,Nov#08b,Dec#08c
2009: Jan#091,Feb#092,Mar#093,Apr#094,May#095,Jun#096,Jul#097,Aug#098,Sep#099,Oct#09a,Nov#09b,Dec#09c
2010: Jan#101,Feb#102,Mar#103,Apr#104,May#105,Jun#106,Jul#107,Aug#108,Sep#109,Oct#10a,Nov#10b,Dec#10c
2011: Jan#111,Feb#112,Mar#113,Apr#114,May#115,Jun#116,Jul#117,Aug#118,Sep#119,Oct#11a,Nov#11b,Dec#11c
2012: Jan#121,Feb#122

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For newcomers to the Digest, we have created a webpage of all the Violet-n-Joey cartoons! Check it out at: http://www.doyletics.com/vjtoons.htm Also note the rotating calendar and clock that follows just to the right of your mouse pointer as you scroll down the page. You'll also see the clock on the 404 Error page if you make a mistake typing a URL while on the doyletics.com website.

The Violet-n-Joey Cartoon page is been divided into two pages: one low-speed and one high-speed access. If you have Do NOT Have High-Speed Access, you may try this Link which will load much faster and will allow you to load one cartoon at a time. Use this one for High-Speed Access.

This month Violet and Joey learn about Illusions, Real Still, and The Pearl in the Oyster. (Note this was an inadvertant repeat of digest13's cartoons.)

#1 "Illusions" at http://www.doyletics.com/11017919.gif

#2 "Real Still" at http://www.doyletics.com/11017920.gif

#3 "The Pearl in the Oyster" at http://www.doyletics.com/11027921.gif

Each month we take time to thank two of our good readers of Good Mountain Press Digest, books and reviews. Here's our two worthy Honored Readers for this month. One of their names will be in the TO: address line of your email Digest notification. Our Honored Readers for July are:

Martin Murphy in great white North Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Dyer Moore in Texas)

Congratulations, Martin and Dyer!

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This first month of summer started off with our second grand-daughter, Jennifer, graduating from high school. Good work, Jenny! At the East Jefferson High School graduation ceremonies, I had my earphones on listening to LSU beat Tulane in the college baseball Super-regional Playoff game. My 7 yr-old grandson, Gabriel, was sitting next to me with his earphones on listening to the sound as he played his Game Boy. It was a Kodak moment. After graduation we went to a party at some friend's house and got to hear him play some of his favorite classical music pieces, like "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road."

On Monday, June 3, I cooked a large redfish courtboullion (koo-bee-yon) for my Dad and his brother Perpy who was visiting with his wife from Florida. We played six-handed game of Pay Me in which, for the first time, I got to say those delightful words enough to come out ahead.

During June I got a request to publish my review of "Redemption of Thinking" by Rudolf Steiner in the Southern Cross Review. An introductory essay on doyletics is being considered for publication in a magazine, Living Now, in Australia. I wrote another essay for publication, but decided to publish it myself on the website because it provides an epistemological basis for doylic memory. It can be read at: http://www.doyletics.com/childofh.htm Also during June, I was privileged to meet and correspond with via email two fine gentlemen, Alvin Lowi and Spencer H. MacCallum. Alvin was a colleague and collaborator with Dr. Andrew J. Galambos. Spencer is the grandson of Spencer Heath, whose book Citadel, Market, and Altar I reviewed recently.

Had a visit from my favorite appliance repairman, Wayne, and he not only got the fridge compartment cooling again, but fixed several other problems at the same time.

Memorable movies of the month: Moulin Rouge, Pearl Harbor, and A Knight's Tale. All three are worth getting out to see before they shrink onto the living room screen. The Knight's Tale had qualities of the other two combined into a movie that was funny, musical, literate, and adventurous, an unusual combination in one movie.

One sad moment for us in June was the final episode of Star Trek Voyager. One last encounter with the Borg Queen, 7 of 9 and Chakotay fall in love, and B'lana Torres has a baby girl. Bring on the re-runs! Del and I came to this wonderful series late in its five year run, so we have a lot of catching up to do. Will help ease the pain of losing Tom Paris, Neelix, Harry Kim, the EMH, Tuvok, Katherine Janeway, and of course, the marvelous Holodeck.

Posted a For Rent sign on our vacant apartment and was able to get a lease signed for a July 1 effective. Our grandson Sam came to visit. He played his second year in Little League baseball and had a .868 batting average. Del wanted to know if that's good. A new grandson brought our total of grandkids up to 15. Our niece Monique Matherne was married to Jason Rachal on June 30th at St. Charles Borremeo Church in Norco. The gas well is producing again on the Babin family property in Bourg, which is good news for the eleven heirs - big royalty checks coming in soon. Uncle T-Al is back home after a frightening stay in the hospital for open heart surgery. We lost two ladies from our extended family this month, Melva Lorio, my sister's mother-in-law and Gladys Stephany, long-time friend of the family.

In addition I was able to finish reading and write reviews for four books, a monthly high for this very busy year of 2001. But the highlight of the month was that I finally won a Mah Jong game!

This month I finally put the finishing touches on a project that had been sitting in limbo for some time. I had unearthed a series of reviews that were the first ones that I did back in 1987. Short but interesting reviews by a variety of authors including Paul Bohannen, Pat Conroy, Ken Carey, Whitely Strieber, Eudora Welty, Jane Austen, Mircea Eliade, Roy Blount, Stephen Lankton, James Carse, Natsume Soseki, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Brian Swimme, Tom T. Hall, Mary Stewart and James Body White. Read my reviews of these authors' works at: http://www.doyletics.com/arj87rev.htm

I awoke from sleep one morning this month and found an answer to an unanswered question that I had been holding for several years:

What is the relationship between the feelings that come from doyles and those that come from a direct experience of spiritual realities?

The latter are often described as ineffable, a fancy word meaning that they're indescribable, and often the mystics who say this are otherwise quite able writers. Suppose the direct experience of the spiritual world is like being present in a box at a symphony concert, and the doylic feelings are tinny recordings of the experience after the fact? If that were so, the only recorded and therefore describable spiritual realities would be those that we had before we were five years old, when as a child we were still able to experience the spiritual world directly and thus recorded those experiences as what became known as feelings to us thereafter. The evidence in the works of writers such as Wordsworth, Freud, Rousseau, Steiner, LeDoux, Samuel Hoffenstein, Owen Barfield and others are offered in this essay which you can read on-line at: http://www.doyletics.com/childofh.htm or if you forget this link, simply click on the highlighted words "doylic memory" in the heading paragraph of the doyletics.com home page at: http://www.doyletics.com .

A shorter project was getting my Matherne's Rules up on the website for all to see. They are linked from the Index page at doyletics.com right below my photo, but you can go directly to them by clicking below:

http://www.doyletics.com/mrules.htm

Thanks to the efforts of our "Crocodile Samdi" down under (Sam DiChiera), the Website Cobbling Calebrese and Master Vintner, we now have a Real Player video of the Second Lorena Speed Trace of her Roller Coaster fear doyles. That will require a 5 Mb download of Real Player if you don't already have it set up plus a 8.9 Mbyte of the full speed trace. For a glimpse of the beginning of the trace, we have an MPEG clip of a portion of the same Speed Trace, and it doesn't require a special player to view. The Live Speed Trace with Lorena Castro was done at El Paso Community College on June 19, 2000. Special thanks also go to Prof. Roméo Di Benedetto and Daniel Matt (Director of the Center for Instructional Television, EPCC) for permission to show this clip on Doyletic.com. The Mplayer file is 1.6 Mbytes long so plan for it to take about 4 mins. on a 57K modem to load. Once it loads you can save it locally to view multiple times. The Real Player file is 8.9 Mb and will take about 15 mins. to load before viewing and you won't be able to save the file for later viewing. Check out the Preview at this page:
http://www.doyletics.com/tvbrintv.htm

and the Full SPEED TRACE on this page:
http://www.doyletics.com/most_tm.htm#Lorena

Check out Bobby's FIQ (Famous and Interesting Quotes). Several new quotes were added near the top of the page, such as this one:

Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. -- Carl Zwanzig

This is Bobby's personal collection, which he has amassed over the past twenty years of writing and recently added to the website at:
http://www.doyletics.com/quotes.htm

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The WWD List has over 34 subscribers and more are joining every month. If you'd like to Join the World-Wide Doyletics List, a new and easy method for you to do so has been added to the WWD page. Basically all you need to do to join the World-Wide Doyletics List, is to enter your First and Last Name and email address and Click on JOIN. The List owner, me, requires that you reveal your name to join, but you may post under an alias. Please enter your real name when you sign up. Check it out at:
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We've added several of the previous Digests on-line with the goal of eventually having all Digest available to read. This will be useful to new Subscribers to the Digest who wish to read what came before them. Look under this heading on the master Digest page for the on-line Digest links. It's at:
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Thanks to all of you who have made this site a success. We have had over 23,000 Visitors to the Doyletics Website since its inception in July, 2000, but we need your help to continue to grow.

If you haven't yet made a connection to the Doyletics website from your own website and would like to, Check Section 9 for details.

And for lagniappe, try going to this non-existent link and see what happens:

http://www.doyletics.com/kilroy.was.here.htm

In fact, try any name you like after the final slash and it will go to this page. This catchall web page is designed to replace the blank 404 ERROR page which is the default page that everyone is taken to if they misspell the final portion of a web page URL.

And for my Good Readers, here’s the new reviews and articles for this month. The ARJ2 ones are new additions to the top of A Reader’s Journal, Volume 2, Chronological List, and the ART ones to A Reader’s Treasury.

1.) ARJ2: The Origins of Natural Science by Rudolf Steiner

Science brought us to a feeling for freedom, but the very modes of thought that led us to grasp the natural world in a robust manner were too coarse to allow us to understand the human being, up until now. To truly understand science, we must look to the parallel evolution of our consciousness and the freedom that accompanied it.

What's this all about? some of you may be asking. Where do we go from here with all these insights into how science evolved to where it is by distancing itself from a direct experience of the human being as much as possible?

[page 126] And infinitely much needs to be set right, particularly in the domain of science. Natural science has grown tall; it is like a nice teenager, who at the moment is going through his years of unpolished adolescence, and whose guidance must be continued so that he will become mature.

Read the Review at:
http://www.doyletics.com/arj/tonsrvw.htm

2.) ARJ2: Aftermath – Travels in a Post-War World by Farley Mowat

The author of "Never Cry Wolf" and Woman in the Mist took a trip to postwar Europe re-tracing his wartime steps and looking over a Europe reconstructing itself from World War II. Some places he was welcomed and treated as a hero. Other places, nobody wanted to talk, the war was still so close and so painful. A delightful read and a pleasant break from reading Rudolf Steiner lectures.

Read the Review at:
http://www.doyletics.com/arj/afterrvw.htm

3.) ARJ2: The Boundaries of Natural Science by Rudolf Steiner

Rather than downplaying the importance of materialistic science at the expense of his spiritual science, Steiner exhorts us to become scientists first, so as to better understand the spiritual world.

[page 32] We must begin by acquiring the discipline that modern science can teach us. We must school ourselves in this way and then, taking the strict methodology, the scientific discipline we have learned from modern natural science, transcend it, so that we use the same exacting approach to rise into higher regions, thereby extending this methodology to the investigation of entirely different realms as well.

Read the Review at:
http://www.doyletics.com/arj/bonsrvw.htm

4.) ARJ2: Michaelmas and the Soul-forces of Man by Rudolf Steiner

What are we to do if we experience a lack of Michael forces in our lives? Shall we implore them to assist us? Pray for Michael's help? As paradoxical as that might sound to some, such pleading will not suffice to ward off the Dragon. We must avoid the passive stance of prayer and take an active role in joining forces with Michael in this battle.

[page 28, 29] For the Michael forces do not want to be implored: they want men to unite with them. This men can do if they will receive the lessons of the spiritual world with inner energy. . . . If a man will saturate himself more and more with confidence in spirit . . . he will acquire a feeling, a Gemüt content, telling them that every blossom bears testimony to the existence of an enchanted elemental being in it; and he will learn to feel the longing in this elemental being to be released by him, instead of being delivered up to the Dragon to whom it is related through its own invisibility.

Read the Review at:
http://www.doyletics.com/arj/masfmrvw.htm

The "The Spizznet File" is Available for Sale at long last!

Books may be ordered:

online: http://www.xlibris.com/TheSPIZZNETFILE.html

email: orders@xlibris.com

The book is also listed with the online booksellers:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0738839248/qid=980975954/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_1/107-1881066-9121354

and

http://www.amazon.com/SPIZZNET-FILE-Bobby-Matherne/dp/0738839248/ref=pd_rhf_p_1/103-1968983-9511836

You can also read a summary of the novel on my website at:

http://www.doyletics.com/gmp/spizznet.htm

Two other sites you may wish to visit are:

For info about the Author: http://www.xlibris.com/BobbyMatherne.html

To Buy the Book: http://www.xlibris.com/TheSPIZZNETFILE.html

The book will eventually be available in E-book, hardback, or paperback form. There is also a Glassbooks version in the offing. You will be able to order a copy at B. Dalton, Walden, Barnes & Noble, Borders or amazon.com, but it may take up to six months to get it into Books in Print. The best source in the meantime is to order your copies from the Xlibris website above.

Thanks to all of you for providing the chemistry which has made this site a success. — Especially those of you who have graciously allowed us to show your photos on this website — you're looking good!

In 2011, its tenth year of existence, the doyletics website will top the EIGHT MILLION VISITORS MARK ! ! !

Our hits are averaging about ten times the number of unique visitors. A unique visitor is defined by our collection agent, Urchin, as a visitor who reads at least one page, leaves the website, and doesn't return for at least 20 minutes. So multiple page reads by the same person are not counted as new visitors. This is a conservative way of counting visitors.Our Hits average over 10X the number of Visitors.

As of February 1, 2012 we have received over 8.8 MILLION VISITORS to the Doyletics Website since its inception in August 1, 2001, over TEN YEARS AGO. Over 1 Million in the past 12 months. We are currently averaging about 89,000 visitors a month [Over One Million a year].

IMPORTANT NOTE: With the new Urchin Logs after an Earthlink Upgrade, our numbers seemed to have fallen dramatically, and it was hard to tell if the new numbers were simply wrong or if the old numbers were artificially high. To complicate matters, the engineers worked for the entire summer to get the Urchin logs to begin to work, and they were undependable until mid-September, 2011. It appears to have started working again in October, but full data seems to take a month to arrive. By January, the data became dependable again, but Urchin has redefined what constitutes a Visitor and that is what has caused the apparent fall in Visitors. With eleven years of data, I know that my Hits to Visitors ratio was 10, using with the previous definition of Visitor as a connection by someone who is not returning within 20 minutes. Now the ratio has risen to 20X because Urchin has redefined a Visitor as a Unique first visit by someone. I have adjusted for the change in Visitor definition, and my Daily and Monthly Adjusted Visitors will continue to rise as they have in the past with no discontinuity.

We especially want to thank you, our Good Readers, in advance, for helping our readership to grow. NOTE our new name for future Digests: DIGESTWORLD. Continue to send comments to Bobby and create links to DIGESTWORLD issues and Reviews on your Facebook page and other Social Media. Email your friends about the reviews, the doyletics speed trace, the cartoons, the jokes, the recipes, the photos in all the DIGESTWORLD Issues archived on our website. Urge them to subscribe to the DIGESTWORLD Reminder so they won't miss a single issue! The Subscription Process has been simplified so that no Reply Confirmation is required. An email to the Editor with your First and Last names is all that's required. There is never a charge for viewing any page on our website, nor for any of the guidance we offer to people asking for help with doyletics or other areas.

~~ NOTE: DIGESTWORLD is a Trademark of 21st Century Education, Inc. ~~

The cost of keeping this website on-line with its 18 Gbytes of bandwidth a month is about $25 a month. Thank you, our Good Readers, for continuing to patronize our advertisers when they provide products and services you are seeking as you visit any of our web pages. Remember the ads are dynamically displayed and every time you read even the same page a second time, you may find new products and services displayed for your review. Our reviews, digests, tidbits, etc, all our webpages act as Google magnets to bring folks to the website to learn about doyletics and frequent our advertisers, so they support one another in effect.

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We wish to thank all Good Readers who have made a contribution to the doyletics.com website! A special thanks to Chris and Carla Bryant of Corpus Christi!
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Learn to Do a Speed Trace Here



Or Watch Bobby extemporaneously explain How to Do a Speed Trace on Video:

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