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I've read the whole of Ghandhi's Experiments with Truth, many times. Something fascinating about his story to me.

I also like Gandhi's technique of describing incidents and episodes in relatively...

The Introduction to the play in Complete Works... ed. by W. G. Clarke and Aldis Wright, p. 971 has the following:

A few months before the play was probably written, had appeared an account of the...

Thanks very much to both of you for your ideas.

When I get some time I may try to draw a map of the mythical/imaginary island for myself.

:crash: Greetings to any Shakespeare scholars out there:

Is there a name for the island where Prospero and daughter are introduced?

As far as I know WS is not known to have ben a traveller. How...

Hello SB

I have not read Siddharta yet. However, I am somewhat familar with the Buddhism story.

After I have finished reading Hesse's Steppenwolf, which I have just begun reading, I hope I...

There is much to be said in favor of what you have said about "walking your own path", the other side of which maybe about being witout a leader, or a guide.

However, it may be perilous.

I...

Very interesting form of mysticism, it seems to me.
However, its all new to me.

I am reading up on the history links, from the Toth site link.
Thanks.

Thanks very much for your suggestions.

I cannot access the NYT links. I am not much of a fan of that newspaper in any case.

There is much to think about in your brief, 1 paragraph view of what...

MaryLupin wrote


Beautifully put.

Psychologists seem to place James enitrely in a psychology, literature, and philosophy box.

But I can't help thinking that James's family background in...

Yes. I read her book many years ago, as part of some course work I had to do for a thesis. I had not read William James then. I have started reading some of his works only in recent years.
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Peace, & Peace to you again weepingforloman.

Are you a William James reader?

MaryLupin wote at the beginning of this thread

"William James was both an incredibly good writer and a profound thinker about the nature of religion. The Varieties of Religious Experience talks...

Unless, of course, we treat "life" also as a word which has many meanings, depending on what adjective is placed before the word. E.g. sex life, plant life, thought life, and so on.

"life is...

Thanks for the quote attributed to Aristotle. I will get back to that later.

Elsewhere, writing about Kurt Vonnegut who died recently I had written:
"Some may say that Kurt was not even a...

Thanks to

The Atheist
JGL57
Weepingforloman
Unbeliever

and others, for noticing the relevance of Mark Twin to the discussion of this thread.

And thanks very much to The Atheist for the...

Bii wrote

"I'll give you an example.

I have been to Spain - this is my knowledge. However:

1. Does Spain exist?
2. I left my home, went on an aeroplane, and arrived in a place which...

Hello Atheist

Thanks very much for your p.o.v.

I might say from what I have read of his stuff that he was not a theist of any particular denomination. But not anti-theist or anti-god.

A lot...

Hello folks.

Needless to say, I am new here.:)

Also I have not figured out about avatars. Sorry 'bout that. Kinda ole fashioned, still, I s`ppose.

In the ole fashioned vein: Mark Twain's...

Apparently there is a new make of the play about the "bearded bedder and beheader" made for tv The Tudors. The new version limits the story to the "most sexually charged part of Henry's reign, when a...

I've just begun re-reading L.L.L.
Also begun feeling my way around here.:)

Have some comments which maybe I can get some responses for.

To begin with, should the spelling remain "labour" and...