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Kindle has shipped a new AI Assistant called “Ask this Book”.
It lets you get spoiler-free recaps or summaries about the chapters you’ve read so far and plot details and character dynamics.
So many times I’ve started a Kindle book and then been slightly frightened to try to get back into it... See more
Rich Holmessubstack.coma kind of double reality: the measurable world and the experienced world.
Anna Branten • The immeasurable
Alchemy itself has been seen as gold making, Self-making, and God making, and there are also the divides between phenomena and noumena, limit and transcendence, mechanism and vitalism, thought and being, image and idea, spirit and nature, soul and spirit, ontology and history, absolutism and relativism.
Stanton Marlan • Jung’s Alchemical Philosophy: Psyche and the Mercurial Play of Image and Idea (ISSN)
Lucid dreaming may be our most intrinsic and precise tool for self-exploration. It’s not just a curiosity—it’s a built-in interface to the unconscious, a direct and interactive gateway to our personal psyche, which is itself a microcosm of the cosmos. Within a lucid dream, we have the ability to interactively walk through and explore our... See more
James Croall • Dreaming to Become Awake
The shallow engagement that’s inundating human relationships mimics our newsfeeds. We don’t actually want to listen to and learn from one another; we want bite-sized McNuggets of connection.
Know Better, Do Better
Thinking deeply about TV, movies, and music doesn’t make you a “complete idiot.” In fact, it might make you a philosopher, someone who believes the unexamined life is not worth living and the unexamined cartoon is not worth watching.
Jason T. Eberl • Joker and Philosophy
Because the left hemisphere is concerned with power, its narrative is always about power. You will notice this all around you nowadays.