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The NYT headlines that five planets will be “aligned” for the next month in our pre-dawn sky.  It is more accurate to say that the five will be in a visible spread for a month — [...]

If this were the work of an entire lifetime – the culmination of decades of research – I could understand how one man could do it. But this is just one of his many books. I cannot [...]

Do not be daunted by too much high finance. You do not have to become a hedge fund operator to understand. You can let your eyeball kind of skim the surface of certain pages. You have to get [...]

The message in this book is rather shocking! I am only on Hemingway – middle of book – but enjoying every bit of it. What a wild and eye opening approach to this subject — and [...]

I liked this book A LOT. All the contemporary wisdom of “Advaita” is here. Simply written, nicely put. Glad to have read this book. Thank you, Alan Watts.

First there was the word, and then there was light Jeremy Naydler points out in his introduction that this is a book of essays. Alas, I felt; he’s just another author who wants to make hay [...]

At the moment when the men defied their superior’s order, I burst and I mean burst into tears.  For I don’t know how long – maybe 15, 20 minutes – I could not stop [...]

Bowie’s death.  Such a death. Here is a person – the first person, perhaps – who made a work of art out of his death. When first I learned about Eleanora Dusa and about her long [...]

Alcohol, oh alcohol We humans bow to thee The spirits in the alcohol Help get us to be free. Karl Jung in his old wizardry Told us all so long ago That alcohol helps make us high And aids our [...]