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The Imagine Festival at Orcas Island, which I attended in early September, presented some refreshing perspectives on the state of the world, present, past and future. Against a backdrop of stunning Gulf Islands serenity, blessed rain ending a drought, and conscious music, dance and visual arts, equal time was given…
The phrase “magical thinking” comes up sometimes in political/spiritual discussions… as in, New Agers being apolitical and resorting to magical thinking to solve the world’s problems: The aliens will come to save us from the evil human empire. The good aliens will come to save us from the evil alien…
Mary Karrs, Liars’ Club – David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas What is it that marks the greatness of these two writers? -- Karr, telling with raw courage her childhood in a soul-taxing East Texas; Mitchell, writing lives within lives and books within books, in this ultra-novel novel that inspired the inspiring…
In the film Arrival nonlinear time is understood through the structure of a language, specifically that which humans come to learn from the advanced beings who have paid a visit to our primitive time-bound planet. Theirs is ideogrammatic in form and concept, with fractal squiggles of ink delivering constellations of…
