Month: October 2024
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Berry’s A Place On Earth: On Twisted Timber And Earthy Love
What I expected from a Wendell Berry novel is not what I’ve experienced. I presumed that we’d find in Port William a Christian town whose characters are, albeit imperfect, nonetheless shimmering with admirableness. A Place on Earth (2001; rev. ed.) provides no such reassurances. The characters are indeed “twisted timber” but with two dominant features.…
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Exploring The Body Identification
The “I am the body identity” is not only the most intriguing but also, at least for some, the stickiest. Thankfully, the direct path teaching offers may very curious ways of dissolving that identification. Since, in direct experience, “the body” is simply a sensation, we look directly at the latter. A few lines of inquiry:
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Between Scylla And Charybdis: The White Radiance Of Eternity
I’ve been reading a bunch of books on the question concerning who–that is, which class–exercises power today, and many political thinkers agree that it’s the meritocratic-managerial elite who’ve been in charge, those often living (in the US) on the East and West Coasts, those wielding “soft power” through government, the media, academia, and the Big…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 