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Though from a Christian perspective, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore was a really lovely meditative, philosophical look at life, nature, people and our own consciousness. Deep, thoughtful, and reflective.
Starting from the premise that we can no longer afford to live in a disenchanted world, Thomas Moore, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling classic Care of the Soul, shows us that a profound, enchanted engagement with life is not a childish thing to be put away with adulthood, but a necessity for one's personal and collective survival.
With his lens focused on specific aspects of daily life such as clothing, food, furniture, architecture, ecology, language, and politics, Moore describes the renaissance these can undergo when there is a genuine engagement with beauty, craft, nature, and art in…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
The Dawning Moon of the Mind: Unlocking the Pyramid Texts by Susan Brind Morrow is a deep thoughtful translation of the Pyramid Texts of Unas. The Author both translates, and gives insight into her translation process and the text itself, arguing that its akin to a Vedic Tantra in the beauty of its imagery, which is often lost in more clumsy translations. I particularly like the explanations of Egyptian humor and world play in the language and sounds of the heiroglyphs as well as their symbolic imager.
Buried in the Egyptian desert some four thousand years ago, the Pyramid Texts are among the world's oldest poetry. Yet ever since the discovery of these hieroglyphs in 1881, they have been misconstrued by Western Egyptologists as a garbled collection of primitive myths and incantations, relegating to obscurity their radiant fusion of philosophy, scientific inquiry, and religion. Now, in a seminal work, the classicist and linguist Susan Brind Morrow has recast the Pyramid Texts as a coherent work of art, arguing that they should be recognised as a formative event in the evolution of human thought. In The Dawning Moon…
