breakattn

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by breakattn 4y ago
Agreed. It's a conversation stopper for me. Sorry. When I hear that term I have to remind myself that people of color automatically get a lot of racist crap, as a matter of course. But still I block or mute. Just the other day I saw a
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by breakattn 4y ago
The Commanding Self by Idries Shah It is a curious choice, I admit, but it takes you out of the mundane reality into fresh view of life. Expanding your view is a great cure for depression. I was also very inspired by Shah's "Thin
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by breakattn 6y ago
Stephen LaBerge made this same discovery in 1987 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_LaBerge They did not do their research.
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by breakattn 6y ago
I read it again, recently, it was oddly comforting during a time like this.
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by breakattn 6y ago
And I saw that this, too, was meaningless.
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by breakattn 6y ago
It is best just to read the first book. It is complete in itself. And then there is Whipping Star, which is best skimmed through so that you can get to The Dosadi Experiment. In fairness, Whipping Star is a fabulous take on what it would be
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by breakattn 6y ago
I concur with Ancillary Justice. I love the way that you have to work out what is happening through successive detail. Plenty of surprises. A genderless society is very hard to get one's mind around.
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by breakattn 6y ago
The Mulla Nasrudin books by Idries Shah. These tales, some of them very old, represent patterns that repeat again and again, in different guises in life. As you absorb them you start to recognize your own behavior patterns in response to an