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Did My Story Just Get Longer?
Did My Story Just Get Longer? In recent days, I’ve felt that it’s time for philosophy — the discipline, with its history and skills — to step up, as it did in days past. To identify and negotiate the great … Continue reading
Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, absurdism, academe, action, afterlife, alienation, art of living, atheism, autonomy, bad faith, beauty, Biblical God, bigotry, books, childhood, chivalry, Christianity, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, courage, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, exploitation, faith, femininity, freedom, guilt and innocence, health, hegemony, hidden God, history, history of ideas, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, immorality, immortality, Jews, Judaism, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, love, martyrdom, masculinity, memoir, memory, mind control, modern women, modernism, moral action, moral evaluation, moral psychology, morality, mortality, ontology, oppression, past and future, philosophy, political movements, politics of ideas, postmodernism, power, presence, propaganda, psychology, public facade, public intellectual, race, radicalism, reading, reductionism, relationships, religion, roles, secular, seduction, self-deception, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, spirituality, status, status of women, suffering, terror, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, the profane, the sacred, theism, theology, time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, victimhood, victims, violence, war, work, writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged 1930s in Germany, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", author and book, children's Holocaust memories, clues to past life, culture and personal choice, dialectical life, Edith Wyschogrod, evil agent, German Jews, German Jews in hiding, God and the Covenant, God and the Jews, Holocaust non-survivors, intelligence of evil, learning who one is, life adventures, life review, living one’s story, love of wisdom, many lives, narrative continuity, narrative view, out of body experience, past life regression, past-life dislocations, past-life memories, personal identity, philosophy in culture, Plato's dialogues, reincarnation, scope of the Holocaust, sealed trucks in Holocaust, self-congratulation, self-correction, understanding evil, understanding the good life, woman philosopher, zeitgeist and anti-semitism, Zyklon B
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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
Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, absurdism, academe, action, afterlife, alienation, American politics, art of living, atheism, autonomy, bad faith, bigotry, books, bureaucracy, childhood, Christianity, cities, class, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, cults, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, exploitation, faith, fashion, feminism, freedom, guilt and innocence, hegemony, heroes, hidden God, history, history of ideas, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immorality, immortality, institutional power, Jews, Judaism, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, martyrdom, memoir, memory, mind control, modern women, modernism, moral action, moral evaluation, moral psychology, morality, mortality, oppression, past and future, philosophy, political movements, politics of ideas, postmodernism, power, presence, propaganda, psychology, public facade, public intellectual, race, reading, reductionism, relationships, religion, roles, science, scientism, secular, self-deception, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, spirituality, status, status of women, suffering, terror, terrorism, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, the profane, the sacred, theism, theology, time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, victimhood, victims, violence, war, work, writing, Zeitgeist
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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Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman One of our back-to-back appointments here in California was cancelled, freeing the Saturday afternoon hours, so we decided to go see “Wonder Woman,” a great hero of my childhood now back in living cinematic color. The Israeli girl … Continue reading
Posted in action, beauty, Biblical God, childhood, contradictions, cool, courage, cultural politics, culture, desire, erotic life, evil, faith, fashion, femininity, feminism, films, freedom, gender balance, heroes, hidden God, history, history of ideas, idealism, identity, Jews, Judaism, life and death struggle, love, masculinity, memory, moral action, moral evaluation, past and future, peace, political, political movements, politics, politics of ideas, power, presence, relationships, roles, romance, sex appeal, sexuality, social construction, social conventions, status of women, suffering, terror, terrorism, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, theism, theology, time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, victims, violence, war, work, writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged appeasement, caliphate, comic books, DC comics, DC Extended Universe, film star, Gal Gadot, genocide, good and evil, Holocaust, IDF, Israeli athletes, Jewish experience, Jewish theology, jihadis, Linda Carter, martial arts, Nazi murders, Ottoman Empire, overtraining, Patty Jenkins, post-appocalyptic innocence, prelapsarian innocence, self-acceptance, super heroes, theological escapism, utopia, Wonder Woman, World War I, yetzer hara, yetzer hatov, Zyklon B
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“Beyond Recovery”
“Beyond Recovery” I’ve been reading a book with the rather haunting title, Beyond the Ashes: Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust. The author, Yonassan Gershom, is a rabbi who is well versed in the kabbalistic, mystical strain within Judaism. His … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930's, archetypes, Beyond the Ashes: Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust, cancer, concentration camp tattoos, gang rape, gas chambers, genocide, Jews and Gentiles, Kabbalah, memory, mystical, past life, philosophers, post-traumatic stress, Rabbi, radiation treatment, recovery, reincarnation, safety, Shoah, the new anti-Semitism, theologians, therapy, trauma, treatment for trauma, universal consciousness, World War II, Yonassan Gershom, Zeitgeist, Zyklon B
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