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 […]
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Snowdon: 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 […]
Read moreThe Body as a Womb within a Transcendent Body (Ulbricht, Pt 5)
The Body is a sort of Womb within Great Nature This post takes something in Ulbricht’s book as a point of departure, but develops just one question. Most of what […]
Read moreTilo Ulbricht, “Recollections” (Pt 4)
The New Work Ulbricht began learning the Gurdjieff system as taught by people who knew him, and who were using most of the methods and many of the ideas Gurdjieff […]
Read moreTilo Ulbricht, “Recollections” (Pt 3)
Errors There are some spelling errors, chiefly in names, e.g. “Rena Hands” should be “Rina Hands,” “Guénon” is the proper spelling of the Traditionalist’s surname, not the different variuations in […]
Read moreTilo Ulbricht, “Recollections” (Pt 2)
Chronology from 1974 In Part II, Ulbricht asks what it means to be responsible in a Gurdjieff group, especially using his experience inaugurating and running new groups, with the practical […]
Read moreTilo Ulbricht, “Recollections” (Pt 1)
Review, Tilo Ulbricht, Recollections: Trying to Follow a Way, SomaHolis Publications; Calne, Wiltshire, 2022 (365 pp., no index) This is an intriguing book. From the front and back covers, you […]
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