Monthly Archives: June 2021
Book Matters
Book Matters Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America By David Hackett Fischer The four British folkways in the title are the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Quakers in Pennsylvania, the Royalists in Virginia, and the Scotch-Irish in … Continue reading
Why I Failed to Notice that I’m Happy
Why I Failed to Notice that I’m Happy Lately, I’ve been passing through what a friend called “a perfect storm” of setbacks. When they mount to a certain number, you can’t tell what’s big and what’s little. Anyway, they came … Continue reading
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Tagged "Carolina Blue", anti-Israel bias, cheering up friends, collegial friend, computer angst, country music, dental crisis, female friendship, fractured toe, friendship and politics, gift cards, gratitude, greeting cards, health scare, information transfer, injury and exercise, instructive fables, Jews on the Brain, life blessings, life's precariousness, loving life, Luke Combs's "What You See Is What You Get", midrashic story, natural poetry, neuropathy treatments, outpatient surgery, perfect storm, poitics of friendship, setbacks, small fracture, song lyrics, sturdy soul
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Was It A Past Life?
Was It A Past Life? By now there are many cases on record of individuals recalling previous lifetimes. A person under hypnosis will seem to remember incidents that occurred under conditions quite different from those obtaining in that person’s present … Continue reading
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Tagged AAR president, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", American Academy of Religion, anomalies, anti-semitism, anti-semitism's return, Austrian S.S., breast cancer, Brendan Larvor's Lakatos: An Introduction, children's past lives, covenantal obligation, death experience, death vision, Edith Wyschogrod, emblem and fact, emblematic experience, empirical evidence, excisional biopsy, Germany in the 1930s, Holocaust, hypnotic regression, Imre Lakatos, informers, laws of nature, materialist/mechanist model, medical empathy, medical tatoo, Nazi gas chambers, Nazi killing techniques, out of body experience, paradigm, past life, past life confirmation, past life regression as treatment, radiation treatment, refuting instance, reincarnation, reincarnation evidence, return of the repressed, scientific evidence, scientific theories, sealed trucks, Shoah, theoretical anomalies, Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, trucks in the Shoah, woman GYN, Zyklon B
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