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From the Horse’s Mouth
My latest ride at what I shall call The Metaphysical Stables has proved particularly gratifying. This time Legacy, the mid-sized, hairy dog, did not sit on my lap while I waited for Dusty to be saddled and bridled. One front … Continue reading →
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Tagged academic revolutionary, aesthetics of anti-semitism, ambivalence toward Jews in literature, American anti-semites, American Zionists, animal communication, animal interpreter, anti-semitism as spiritual refusal, armchair radicalism, cafe marxism, cafe revolutionary, Camelot the musical, can’t fool your dog, coming to terms with parents, curing anti-semitism, daughter of a genius, dog as a good judge of character, double life, emotional intelligence in animals, escaping a parent’s shadow, ethical pretense, female as victim, finding the Right One, first love, grand passion, Henry M. Rosenthal, his and her perspectives, horse sense, horse sense vs psychotherapy, Jewish fathers and daughters in literature, Jews in English literature, knights and their ladies, le coup de foudre, living a contradiction, living in a parent’s shadow, love at first sight, men’s romantic suffering, outward success inward distress, Parisian intellectuals, Parisian Men of the Left, pretense of concern for the oppressed, professional success vs personal failure, public facade vs private suffering, recognizing a man of God, recovering from first love, redeeming femininity, refusal of the divine, refusal of the God of history, revisiting memories, romantic disappointment, romantic disillusionment, Romantic memory, seduced and abandoned, seductive idealization, seductive ploys, self judgment, spiritual ambivalence toward the Jews, spiritual refusal, talking one way living another, The 36 righteous, the eternal feminine, the horse’s mouth, the man’s viewpoint, the metaphysical stables, the stroke of lightning, theological insight, Thomas Altizer, time’s winged chariot, Tristan and Iseult, turning around of the soul, unintegrated life, unresolved romance, Walter Russell Mead’s The Ark of a Covenant: The United States Israel and the Fate of the Jewish People, womanly understanding, working through memories, worldly honors
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The Other Culture War
The Other Culture War People live and die by ideas. That’s not the only thing we live and die by, but ideas are big in the lives of all of us. For the last 100 years or so, trend-setting thinkers … Continue reading →
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Tagged animal communication, anomalies, anti-teleology, competing world views, cosmic mind, cultural power, culture war, cynicism, David Lorimer, denying evidence, despair, discredited paradigm, emotional wisdom, enforcing opinions, establishment power plays, good and evil, groupthink, horse psychic, idealism v materialism, ideas as causal, ideas in culture, inconsistent data, intellectual trends, laws of nature, loss of reputation, love as real, materialist paradigm, mechanistic universe, metaphysical idealism, metaphysical materialism, minds and brains, monistic idealism, NDE, near death experience, new realism, opinion shapers, paradigm change, paranormal phenomena, precognition, precognitive dreams, professional threats, reality check, reality of individuals, reasons v causes, refutation by refusing to look, scientific establishment, scientific method, scientific progress, scientific revolution, search for truth, skepticism v dogmatism, social pressure, The Galileo Commission, unconscious projections, Victor Zammit’s Friday Afterlife Report, women's wisdom
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