Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) wrote the striking novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). I am perhaps even more impressed by her autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road (1942). She strikes me […]
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“The Plan Is Good: Selected Writings by Annie Lou Staveley, A Student of Gurdjieff”
“The divine plan is the never-ending wish of the Creator for the evolution of being.” (54) With this volume of posthumously collected ideas, we may follow Mrs Staveley as she […]
Read moreR.H. Benson, “The Sentimentalists,” 2
When Fr Yolland first glimpses the shadowy figure of Christopher Dell, the latter is striking a pose, and his mouth and chin “seemed tilted in a kind of tragic appeal.” […]
Read moreTrompf, “On the Origins of the Western Meditation Movement”
A very interesting study of meditation and contemplation in the Christian tradition was published by my colleague Professor Garry W. Trompf, one of the world’s leading scholars of religion. This […]
Read more“Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer’
Part One In about 2011, HarperCollins published Norris J. Chumley’s Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer. It is not an uninteresting book, as a travelogue, but its value for me lies within […]
Read moreGrossman: Assassination Generation (I)
Review, Lt Col. Dave Grossman, Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing, Little Brown and Company, NY (2016) 264 pp. This is a valuable book. It is […]
Read moreSnowdon: Aging with Grace
Aging with Grace: The Nun Study and the Science of Old Age. How we Can all Live Longer, Healthier and more Vital Lives, David Snowdon, Fourth Estate, London (237 pp. […]
Read moreWolfgang Smith, Theistic Evolution: The Teilhardian Heresy
Review, Wolfgang Smith, Theistic Evolution: The Teilhardian Heresy, Angelico Press/Sophia Perennis, 248pp. plus index I was wondering about Teilhard de Chardin’s pervasive influence on the modern Catholic Church, or perhaps […]
Read moreReview, Wolfgang Smith, Vedanta in the Light of Christian Wisdom
Review, Wolfgang Smith, Vedanta in the Light of Christian Wisdom, Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation, 2022, 100 pages plus postscript, glossary, and index There are some extraordinary insights in this book. The […]
Read moreReview, Tilo Ulbricht “Recollections” (Pt 6, final)
This shall be the sixth and last post devoted to the contents of this book. I now have a better overall picture of it and its significance. It seems to […]
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