I have a deep fascination with time. I am acutely aware at how fast it passes and am dismayed that I’m forty five years old. It is not a sadness at no longer being young but more-so being very surprised that this age has come so quickly. I’ve always known that time is precious and…… Continue reading Mysteries of the Unknown: Time and Space
Category: Books
My notes on books I’ve read.
Lapham’s Quarterly: Foreigners
Having spent a substantial amount of time in foreign countries I was looking forward to reading this edition of Lapham’s Quarterly. Furthermore, there is an anti-foreigner strain that gained a little steam under the Trump Presidency. History is rife with anti-immigrant sentiment and the USA is no exception. There was a discussion back in the…… Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly: Foreigners
Life After Life – Raymond Moody
Although I no longer believe in religion I remain a spiritual person always looking for evidence, for answers. I try to find these answers in multiple ways and have found one common thread throughout is meditation. Meditation at first blush seems like something esoteric from the orient. But what I’ve found is that it is…… Continue reading Life After Life – Raymond Moody
The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization – Peter Zeihan
Reading this book reminded me of another business book that made just as much of a splash twenty years ago but preached the opposite. The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman spoke of erasing borders, a level playing field for the entire world where international economic cooperation would increase efficiency and drive down price. This…… Continue reading The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization – Peter Zeihan
Mysteries of the Unknown – Search for the Soul
Other researchers – literal-minded scientists – decided after elaborate experimentation that wherever it lurks in life, the soul must exist, for at death there is an infinitesimal but measurable weight loss representing its departure from the body. I’m not so sure about this idea. I would think that energy, or whatever the spirit or soul…… Continue reading Mysteries of the Unknown – Search for the Soul
Mysteries of the Unknown: Psychic Voyages
I’ve just finished the second book in this series. I didn’t highlight as many things as I did with Ancient Wisdom and Secret Sects but did find some good nuggets. Calloway claimed that he went on to experience many of these so-called dreams of knowledge, in which the realization that he was dreaming allowed him…… Continue reading Mysteries of the Unknown: Psychic Voyages
Mysteries of the Unknown: Ancient Wisdom and Secret Sects
I am a child of the ’80s. Thirty years ago is a long time in itself but considering the advancement in technology it might as well be 100 years. When we wanted to know something we had to go to the library or head over to a rich friend’s house who could afford the Encyclopedia…… Continue reading Mysteries of the Unknown: Ancient Wisdom and Secret Sects
Hildreth’s “Japan as it was and is”- My Notes and Thoughts
I prefer “historical books” to “history books.” That is to say I want first hand accounts of the times being described and thus be drawn as fully as possible into that time period. By reading first hand accounts I am able to connect with the feelings, the mindset, the zeitgeist of the times, whereas history…… Continue reading Hildreth’s “Japan as it was and is”- My Notes and Thoughts