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“Proof of Heaven”
“Proof of Heaven” We are in Riverside, California, having arrived from Phoenix, Arizona, where we had a five-minute TV appearance on Pat McMahon’s show, The Morning Scramble. Jerry had had his first radio interview with Pat, an hour-long substantive conversation … Continue reading
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Tagged afterlife, alimentary canal, Arizona, bacterial meningitis, bodily wisdom, body’s viewpoint, brain death, California, cognitive function, cognitive recovery, cognitive survival, coma, cultural change, cultural influence, Dante, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Dante’s Paradise, deathbed communications, Eben Alexander’s Proof of Heaven, empirical evidence, evidence, father-daughter relations, father-son relations, filial piety, heaven and hell, identity theory, liars, life as story, love as force, Materialism, materialist worldview, media visibility, medical team, medical worldview, mind and body, mortality, narrative view, natural law, near-death experiences, neurosurgeons, out of body experiences, paradigm shift, Pat McMahon, peer pressure, performers, personal identity, personal responsibility, philosophers, philosophic influence, philosophic wisdom, philosophical materialists, Phoenix, professional courage, professional duty, professional responsibility, Q & A, radio interviews, Riverside, scientism, talk shows, the Big Questions, The God Show, The Morning Scramble, the paranormal, trip to heaven, truth, truthfulness, TV interviews, untruthfulness
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“Dante’s Lovers”
“Dante’s Lovers” There is a circle of hell, not very far down but definitely under the white line of redemption, where Dante places a certain species of doomed lover. There the enchanted couples pursue each other and, it seems, are … Continue reading
Posted in alienation, chivalry, courtship, culture, desire, erotic life, evil, faith, femininity, gender balance, guilt and innocence, identity, idolatry, literature, love, male power, memoir, poetry, power, psychology, relationships, roles, seduction, sex appeal, slave, spirituality, suffering, the examined life, the problematic of woman, theism, time, twentieth century, Zeitgeist
Tagged "getting religion", "Lydia", "Now Voyager", "Ode on a Grecian Urn", addiction, attraction, Bette Davis, blind devotion, courtship, cynicism, Dante, doomed lovers, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, fulfillment, hell, hope, idyll, infatuation, John Keats, longing, lust, Merle Oberon, projection, romantic fantasy, sacrificial love, scorned lovers, second circle, seduction, self-deception, tease, unrequited love
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“Christianity, Judaism, and Women”
“Christianity, Judaism, and Women” I don’t know how you feel about this, but I take for granted that a religion represents (among other things) an erotic style. If I were to convert to another religion, I would be changing the … Continue reading
Posted in academe, culture, desire, erotic life, faith, femininity, gender balance, life and death struggle, literature, masculinity, nineteenth-century, philosophy, political, relationships, sexuality, social conventions, the problematic of woman
Tagged Beatrice Portinari, chivalry, Christian idealized woman, Christian woman, Christianity, courtship, Dante, desire, erotic life, eternal feminine, Faust, Goethe, Gretchen, Jewish woman, Judaism, lech lecha, Leo Bronstein, men and women, nature of desire, Rachel at the well, religion, sex, The Covenant, Women
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“Materialism”
“Materialism” Sometimes, when I am feeling particularly out of sorts, I imagine how my day or week would look to me if I were a materialist. That makes me feel better, because I remember that I’m not one. By “materialist” … Continue reading
Posted in academe, culture, desire, erotic life, history of ideas, literature, philosophy, political, psychology, relationships, sexuality, social conventions, the examined life
Tagged 13th century physics, Aristotle, Beatrice, Beatrice Portinari, cognitive science, Dante, Dante Alighieri, death of a parent, Divine Comedy, erotic quick fix, false consciousness, father's death, Florence, George Gilder, heaven, heliocentrism, hell, hook-up culture, identity theory, love, Materialism, May-Day, paradox, physical brain, Ptolemy, purgatory, reductionism, sociology, soul's journey, the soul, Thomas Nagel, Thomas Wolfe
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