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Tell us what you're reading, how it is, and what it does for you to read it (yes its okay just to read as an escape, not everything has to be serious). For myself:
Kind of slowed down on the reading tip since moving recently but just picked up "The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine" for a second read. Trying to improve my pulse readings. If you don't know the Yellow Emperor's Classic is seen as the bible of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Most books in the field are really just interpretations from it. A lot can be taken literally from it, but there is a lot of metaphor in it as well which fits in with the taoist tradition. I think a lot of the TCM schools go far too literal with it and fail to pass on the metaphorical meaning of it all but that's just my opinion. The translation I'm reading is by Ni Maoshing. The Ni family is one of my prefered sources for most taoist material but there are tons of others.
On the not reading yet but very interested in level, there's a new book by an acquaintance of mine's partner, John Abrahmson called "Overdosed America" which breaks down the pharmacutical industry in the states and how it is killing people for profit. Abrahmson broke the whole Vioxx scandal while writing this book. I reccommend it to anyone who has the chance to pick it up (can't get it where I am right now). Lot's of good information within.
Kind of slowed down on the reading tip since moving recently but just picked up "The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine" for a second read. Trying to improve my pulse readings. If you don't know the Yellow Emperor's Classic is seen as the bible of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Most books in the field are really just interpretations from it. A lot can be taken literally from it, but there is a lot of metaphor in it as well which fits in with the taoist tradition. I think a lot of the TCM schools go far too literal with it and fail to pass on the metaphorical meaning of it all but that's just my opinion. The translation I'm reading is by Ni Maoshing. The Ni family is one of my prefered sources for most taoist material but there are tons of others.
On the not reading yet but very interested in level, there's a new book by an acquaintance of mine's partner, John Abrahmson called "Overdosed America" which breaks down the pharmacutical industry in the states and how it is killing people for profit. Abrahmson broke the whole Vioxx scandal while writing this book. I reccommend it to anyone who has the chance to pick it up (can't get it where I am right now). Lot's of good information within.
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Re: What are you reading?
Mon, December 13, 2004 - 9:35 AMhmm, 'overdosed in america' sounds great, ive been looking for good information on that subject for a while now.
lately im continuing my obsession with natural building skills, most recently ive been reading 'building without borders: sustainable construction for the global village' by joe kennedy. this is the first book ive read on natural building to really step outside of the cultural framework of the us and talk about housing crisis as a global issue.
also been re-reading 'the road from home' by david kherdian, it a book based on his mothers story of living through the aremnian genocide as a young girl. for me this is firstly a personal history, revisiting the aremenian ancestry on my fathers side of the family, and further, is an education in a side of history that few people are aware of (to this day neither the turkish or the u.s. govt officially recognises that this genocide ever occurred). kherdian's book is more an anecdotal account than a thorough history, for a history, check peter balakian's 'the burning tigris'.
other than that, going for walks and reading the new landscape surrounding me in my new home in nrothern new mexico.
more later as i read on.
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Re: What are you reading?
Fri, February 11, 2005 - 9:15 AMHi- I'm currently reading "The Healing of America" by Marianne Williamson. It's great for helping me consistently focus and re-focus on my mission, which is, at this point, trying to fix and heal what's broken in my own back yard, and then spreading it out into the universe.
I also browse the Tibetan Book of the Dead on a regular basis. I often learn new things from reading the same books, rather than from new books, when it comes to self-reflection.
Good books I've read recently are "How The Irish Became White" by Art MacDonald", "My Brother's Keeper: A Memoir and a Message"
by Amitai Etzioni, "Ay, Cuba: A Socio-Erotic Journey" by Andrei Codrescu & David Graham, and " The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream" by Andrea Rock.
The first three expanded my historical and cultural knowledge, and the last one explained the science of dreaming from a jourmalistic point of view. It covered things like dreaming as a chemical process, vs. a metaphysical/magical process, and the changes in popular sleep theory over the years, apsrticularly concerning REM. This was very interesting, and gave me an entirely different perspective on things like lucid dreaming, astral projection, and how the mind and body work together and seperately. Of course, now I have MORE questions than before I read the book, but that's a good thing.
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Re: What are you reading?
Sat, February 12, 2005 - 2:44 PMI've mostly been reading about economic analysis, economic history, free currencies, planetary resource shortages and startegic end games around that subject.
I'm interning in the co-op sector/movement during my Business/Communications joint major program. I've lived in trees, and at the 'end of the road' with farrels all over the world not to mention all the Rainbow gatherings. I was educated at a free school at one of the epicenters of the new age and I'm done with that. This planet and it's people who want to have a shot at maintaining homeostasis need structured groups/entities, that can help them live and exchange outside the capitalist/exploitative model and we need it yesterday. That's why I no longer 'walk the Earth' praying with hippies and finding my inner truth. My 'inner truth' is compassion and it's time that compassion extended itself effectively to help as many as possible as soon as possible in real ways so that people can even think about the spiritual and not be saddled with survival.
That's why I study economics, business and communications. If you can't understand how the capitalists have plundered than you won't understand how to subvert their capital, laws, and systems for the co-operative good of all.
I go everywhere with the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Embracing the Rainbow, Becoming, all those great works of spiritual awakening. And I suggest if you're serious about effective, widespread change now, you start reading hard analysis of economics, currencies, exchange systems. Etc.
Those are the disciplines of how humans interact on mass and an understanding of them might give us Ground Crew Members a shot at ameliorating suffering on Earth.
In prayer with peace with all beings
Gregory
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Re: What are you reading?
Thu, April 14, 2005 - 3:07 AMJust finished reading The Last Days of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann, I highly truly recommend it! www.thomhartmann.com/last.shtml
Btw Primus excuse my absence and lack of contributions up on this tribe, I have been out of net-action for a while..
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