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This month Violet and Joey learn about The Dawning, The Allusion, and Territorial Apprehension.
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 August are:
Bradford Riley in Georgia Wesley Gralapp in Alexandria, Louisiana
This midsummer month was a busy one, and our Planning Workstation got a good workout.
That's what we call our hammock stationed under the oak tree next to the Round Garden. We
added an undine to the bird bath that graces the center of the Round Garden. That's a 16" high
water sprite, who is depicted in bronze leaning forward to drink from a tiny leaf. Our glorious July
weather has returned after two years of sunny drought and we are visited by daily afternoon
cooling showers and shade. Having Del working from home has meant scheduling our time in the
Planning Workstation. One of the benefits to me has been more time for reading and writing, as
the full plate of reviews for this month will attest. Enjoy!
Our grandson Sam visited us from the East coast. He batted 868 in his second Little League
season. Del wanted to know if that was good. She knows now that only one major leaguer ever
averaged over 400 for a year. Sam and his cousin Gabe liked to watch me shoot the bad guys on
Quake III acting as health monitors and bad guy spotters for me.
I received this wonderful sentiment about friendship from Yvan Béguin in Geneva, Switzerland
which I would like to share with you. Yvan is a native speaker of French, but his English is
excellent, if strikingly novel, such as in this case, "Your friendship is good to feel in my heart."
Yvan translated Doyle Henderson's website-1.com into French and is currently working on
doyletics.com. Yvan will be coming to the Inaugural World-Wide Doyletics Conference in New
Orleans in October. Any of my good readers who are also familiar with doyletics and would like
to get together for a couple of days to share their experiences and learn more may contact me to
register for the conference.
I had one of my Steiner reviews published in Argentina's Southern Cross Review and a print
magazine in Australia is considering publication of an introductory article about doyletics that I
wrote for them.
After the grandsons left Del and I drove to the Palace 20 Cineplex to see A. I. - pretty fascinating
movie- not at all what either of us expected it to be. Could become a classic like 2001 has. Not
much Artificial Intelligence stuff in the movie - it's more about reincarnation and the influence of
the Moon. Huge full moon keeps re-appearing during the movie. At first I thought it was a sly
Dreamworks promo bit, but the meaning seems deeper. When the kid freezes underwater for
2,000 years, that smacks very much of reincarnation. This time he will evolve for sure, he will
fulfill the promise he made himself in the previous lifetime. A monochromatic world devoid of
human expressions fits very well with anthroposophic predictions for that time period. See my
review of Necessity and Freedom when it is done in a few days.
Finished my review of my friend Kevin Dann's fine book, Bright Colors, Falsely Seen, midnight
before the 4th of July. Del and I planned a quiet day at home until the smell of BBQ from nearby
celebrations began to seep through the windows, we headed for downtown and some BBQ
ourselves from Houston's on St. Charles Avenue. After lunch we rode the streetcar to the French
Quarter and walked to Café Du Monde for some café au lait and beignets (not coffee ole as we
saw in Alabama coffee shop). We bumped into Annette and George Dorko who were also New
Orleanians celebrating the 4th in the Quarter. They were headed to a hotel to watch the evening's
fireworks. We headed home to watch close up in the screening room.
The next week we spent at our condo in Orange Beach on the Gulf of Mexico. Our daughter
Maureen and her colleague Janet, a French teacher from Bonnabel High School, joined us in an
adjacent condo for the week. We enjoyed the beach, the waves, the sun, and the chance to spend
a week with our grandkids, Chris and Gabe and our new friend Janet and her two kids, Marianne
and Alex. We took them all to Flounder's Restaurant in Pensacola Beach, a wonderful open-air
feeling with a sandy beach for the kids to play on, live music, and salt breezes. Afterward we were entertained by a small aeroplane flying low overhead and shooting fireworks from its wings:
sparklers and Roman candles.
The next week was my birthday week and I spent most of it working at the keyboard. Got re-started on my backlog of reviews for A Reader's Treasury, as this month's list of ART reviews
will attest. For my birthday I arranged a massage for myself and dinner at my nephew Jeff's
restaurant about a half-mile down Belle Chasse Highway. Dad joined me and Del, and Jeff's mom,
my sister Janet and her friend Gayle also. Maureen came at the last minute to round out the
birthday table. Thirty-two years ago man first landed on the Moon on my birthday, and those July
20th blank spaces in the calendars of my youth will be filled in with a famous happening from now
on.
One more trip before the month was out took us to Alexandria, Louisiana to our daughter Kim
and her husband Wes Gralapp's home. We met the new puppy, a chocolate Lab named Snickers.
How cute, I thought, like the chocolate candy bar of the same name. Then I discovered an
egregious error - the puppy was a she! Everybody knows that Snickers has nuts! Nuts or not,
Snickers will be an excellent retriever for those cold days in the duck blind when walking in knee
deep water and muck to retrieve ducks is not nearly as much fun as shooting more ducks. We
spent the second night at Loyd Hall, a lovely Bed & Breakfast in the rural Central Louisiana town
of Cheneyville. If you could bottle and sell quiet, this place would be a gold mine.
Till next month, may all of you, my good Readers, have a great August!
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results of his previous translation projects that it will happen. A note to that effect has been added
to the top of the doyletics.com home page.
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
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I awoke the other morning with these words resonating in me, "All peace begins with inner
peace." It occurred to me later that world peace can only be built one individual at a time. And
individual peace must begin with inner peace. And inner peace can be created by removing
troubling doyles, one at a time, during a speed trace. When that message gets out to the world, as
I like to say, "Fear, Anger, and Anxiety will be endangered species." And World Peace will
become an attainable goal, one person at a time.
"All Peace Begins with Inner Peace." will be the theme for the Inaugural World-Wide Doyletics
Conference in New Orleans this fall.
There is much in this book to be learned about the human being and how the senses and memory
are organized. In many ways it is a reference book to understanding the origin of many important
concepts in the history of humanity: how the concept ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny was first
formulated, how eidetic imagery and synaesthesia are usually found together, how Jules Millet
first coined the word synaesthesia, and many other unique advances in understanding human
consciousness are collected in one convenient book.
[page 164] If these syncretic forms of perception [synaesthesia and
eideticism] do indeed signal something about the evolution of human
consciousness, we have not as yet fathomed what that is.
Perhaps not, but with Kevin Dann's book, we can begin to get our arms around the
problem in a more comprehensive way than ever before.
Its subtitle, "A Harrowing Passage into New Guinea's Heart of Darkness," tells us succinctly
what the book is about. A journalist white man tracks down a lost tribe newly appearing out of
the mountainous jungles of deepest New Guinea.
Herein is the tale of his treacherous trek and his
encounter with that rarest of humans: a small tribe of 79 people isolated from civilization since the
beginning of time. He will get a book from this encounter. What will they get?
How does one have freedom in a world in which karma exists?
Doesn't the necessity of one's
karma eliminate the possibility of chance? And if so where does "the kindly care of God," as my
Collins dictionary defines providence, fit into the scheme of things?
Steiner answers all these
questions and more in the short 148 pages of these eight lectures.
Humor and quickness — two words that describe Bandler. He does the therapy in seconds, but
indulges himself for many minutes so that he can charge for the session, so that he can charge up
the therapists, can charge them up to get them moving out of their pearl-lined shells into other and
more fun-filled worlds.
Here's another example of his humor and quickness:
[page 162] (Laughter) Well that takes care of that. Another sixty seconds of
therapy. If you know what you're doing, therapy doesn't take that long.
Richard Bandler was the quintessential smart ass, as the title textually and graphically illustrates,
but he always manages to fill his seminars and keep people riveted to their seats, as much as one
can be riveted while one is uproariously laughing from one moment to the next.
Steve and
Connirae Andreas have compiled a melange of his seminars, tapes and workshops into a coherent
whole and managed to capture the elfin Bandler at his best.
In this book, full of brightly colored drawings of wild plants and flowers, Roger Banks takes us on
a culinary tour of the weeds that surround our houses.
If you're ready to swear off insecticides
and herbicides and take a walk on the wild side, then this book is for you.
Why read essays written back in 1600 AD? The guy obviously doesn't know how to write good
English - look at the stilted phrasing and obscure grammar he uses! Well, consider this a bit o
homework, dear Readers, with an emphasis on work. Like school homework, it will prepare you
for the next day's activities. Here's a sample quote to scare you off completely:
[page 88] After these two noble fruits of friendship (peace in the affections,
and support of the judgment), followeth the last fruit; which is like the
pomegranate, full of many kernels; I mean aid and bearing a part in all
actions and occasions. Here the best way to represent to the life the manifold
use of friendship is to cast and see how many things there are which a man
cannot do himself; and then it will appear that it was a sparing speech of the
ancients, to say, that a friend is another himself; for that a friend is far more
than himself. >
To Read the full review anyway, in spite of my warnings to the contrary:
When Groucho said, "I would not join a club that would have me as a member," what did he
really mean?
What does everybody mean when they talk about paradigms?
Do you feel a little left
out, not knowing a paradigm from a parachute? Want to learn what a paradigm really is so you
won't have to pretend to know from now on?
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