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Monthly Archives: September 2008
The Game of Life is Hard to Play. You’re Gonna Lose it Anyway. So Why Not Watch The Da Vinci “Last Supper” Scene from the Original MASH Film (1970)?
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Tagged death, Jesus, Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci, life, peace, psychology, war, Zen
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Two Faces—or Curvy Girl Martian?
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Tagged art, deconstruction, figure-ground images, holism, interconnectedness, meditation, perception, philosophy, poetry, psychology, yoga, Zen
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What Does Thomas Muthee Say Happened to Mama Jane? Sarah Palin’s Exorcist, Thomas Muthee, Tells What He Did to Mama Jane, the “Witch” of Kiambu
I recently located a book, written in 1997, that tells Thomas Muthee’s tale of Mama Jane, the “witch” of Kiambu. The book is by George Otis and titled, The Twilight Labyrinth: Why Does Spiritual Darkness Linger Where It Does? It’s published by … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, Halloween, John McCain, Mama Jane, New Age, Ohio, Politics, Salem, Sarah Palin, Thomas Muthee, witch hunting
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“The Sunday Shakespeare Society”: A Charming Notice, from 1934, of a London Group That Met Once a Month to Read Shakespeare’s Plays Aloud
William Kent, in his 1934 book London for Shakespeare Lovers (Methuen & Co.), in the “Useful Information” section at the back of the book, had this rather charming notice (on pg. 174): The Sunday Shakepeare Society was founded by the late Dr. … Continue reading
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Tagged English, Hamlet, literature, London, Macbeth, Othello, plays, poetry, Santi Tafarella, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare
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“Monastery Candle”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella
not uh oh nor oh no but ah so
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Tagged Buddhism, Catholicism, koan, life, literature, meditation, poems, poetry, Santi Tafarella, yoga, Zen
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“Like a Tortoise Retracting Its Limbs”: The Bhagavad Gita as Literature, and Its Doctrine of the Two Selves
One of the most enduring pieces of world literature is the Bhaghavad Gita. And one of the keys to reading the Gita is to understand its doctrine of the two selves. In the Gita the two selves are: the “big … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Atman, Bhagavad Gita, Brahman, Henry David Thoreau, Hinduism, India, literature, meditation, poetry, world literature, yoga
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“With a Little Help from My Friends”: Joe Cocker in Translation
Question: What is poetry, really? Answer: Joe Cocker in translation.
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Tagged hippies, humor, Joe Biden, Joe Cocker, life, literature, longing, love, peace, poetry, romanticism, woodstock
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