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1.) ARJ2: Toward Imagination — Culture and the Individual by Rudolf Steiner

One cannot study spiritual science the way one studies materialistic science — I have no doubt about that since I came to spiritual science from the perspective of a physicist. Once I understood how the physical world worked, I wanted answers to big questions about the world which physics always leaves untouched. In Rudolf Steiner I found someone who reasoned like a scientist and explained things like a scientist and actually had answers to my big unanswered questions. Every book or lecture cycle of his I pick up to read contains answers to some unanswered question I have held for many years, mind-boggling answers to my big questions which I receive with warm enthusiasm. Here is an answer, I say to myself, which finally makes sense to me about how the entire world operates, not just the atomistic one I was academically trained to understand. It is this spiritual science I refer to that Steiner named anthroposophy — the science of the complete human being and the cosmos. To understand anthroposophy as one would physics would be to completely miss the point — one would thereby lower anthroposophy to the abstract empty realms of physics and chemistry.

This is a book full of answers to big questions — some of which you may be holding unanswered,waiting for now. Maybe not, maybe you have no big questions about the world in which you live, and what you have read in religion classes has satisfied your curiosity about what happens after you die — if so, this review may not be for you, up until now.

http://www.doyletics.com/arj/towardim.htm

2.) ARJ2: How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill

It is important that we understand that the native characteristic of the Irish was a peace-loving folk, and that everything else came as a reaction to the invasions by foreigners into their land.

[page 3] The word Irish is seldom coupled with the word civilization. When we think of peoples as ci vilized or civilizing, the Egyptians and the Greeks, the Italians and the French, the Chinese and the Jews may all come to mind. The Irish are wild, feckless, and charming, or morose, repressed, and corrupt, but not especially civilized. If we strain to think of "Irish civilization," no image appears, no Fertile Crescent or Indus Valley, no brooding bust of Beethoven. The simplest Greek auto mechanic will name his establishment "Parthenon," thus linking himself to an imagined ancestral culture. A semi-literate restaurateur of Sicilian origin will give pride of place to his plaster copy of Michelangelo's David, and so assert his presumed Renaissance ties. But an Irish businessman is far more likely to name his concern "The Breffni Bar" or "Kelly's Movers," announcing a merely local or personal connection, unburdened by the resonances of history or civilization.

But as Rome was burning along with its books, the Irish monks were burning the midnight oil copying the great works of Western literature. To these hard-working monks we owe much of our knowledge of ancient literature. Perhaps you're Irish, or wanna be — if so, read this review.

http://www.doyletics.com/arj/howtheir.htm

3.) ARJ2: Riddles of the Soul by Rudolf Steiner

How do we know we are experiencing a lamed-mental picture in our everyday life? We find ourselves formulating a concept which is the dead remains of the internal living mental picture we started from. We each have living supersensible connections with the objects we perceive with our senses. But this connection is flattened out into a concept by our intellectual mind.

[page 119, 120] The living element that exists in man through this connection is lamed, reduced to a "concept" by his intellectual organization. The abstract mental picture is this real element — which has died in order to present itself to ordinary consciousness — in which man does live during sense perception, but whose living quality does not become conscious. The abstractness of our mental pictures is caused by an inner necessity of the soul. Reality gives man something living. He deadens that part of this living element which enters his ordinary consciousness. He does so because he could not achieve self-consciousness in his encounter with the outer world if he had to experience his actual connection to this outer world in its full vitality. Without the laming of this full vitality, man would have to recognize himself as one part within a unity extending beyond his human limits; he would be an organ of a greater organism.

Steiner has thus revealed one of the riddles of the soul he promised in the title of this amazing book. Anyone who has a living soul will admit having experienced this sense of being part of a greater unity at one time or another in one's life. That reality lies there as I type these words, as you read them, living and throbbing mostly unseen and unfelt below an encrustation of intellectual bafflegab, up until now.

The review is ready for you to learn about other riddles of the soul.

http://www.doyletics.com/arj/trsrvw.htm

In this section I like to comment on events in the world, in my life, and in my readings which have come up during the month. These are things I might have shared with you in person, if we had had the opportunity to converse during the month. If we did, then you may recognize my words. If I say some things here which upset you, rest assured that you may skip over these for the very reason that I would likely have not brought up the subject to spoil our time together in person.

1. Padre Filius Reads the New Orleans Times-Picayune this Month:

Padre Filius, the cartoon character created by your intrepid editor and would-be cartoonist, will appear from time to time in this Section of the Digest to share us on some amusing or enlightening aspect of the world he observes during his peregrinations.

This month the good Padre reads an AP Dispatch and wonders about his second and third trials.

2. St. Gothard's Pass

In this passage below by Rudolf Steiner is a poem about a hiker in the Alps encountering a crucifix on the path. The day after I had just completed my review of the book, Toward Imagination, containing the poem, I went to my masseuse's office, Laura Sampson, and saw a poster on her wall of Joseph Mallord William Turner's painting of St. Gothard's Pass. If you look in the lower left hand corner of this extracted portion of the work, you can see a person kneeling before a crucifix in the middle of the grandeur of the high Alps.

Adapted from my review of Toward Imagination, Seven Lectures by Rudolf Steiner in July, 1916 [RJM: Steiner's words are in bold, mine not in the passage below.]

Let us take another example. Suppose someone were hiking one morning in a beautiful area in the Alps, noticing the song of the birds, the beauty of the woods, perhaps even the marvelous virginal purity of the water as it babbles its way downhill in brooks, and so on. Imagine the hiker wanderedfor an hour, maybe, or an hour and a half, and then came upon a simple wooden crucifix. The hiker may be inwardly glad, having all the forces of gladness in his soul shaken awake because he or she has seen beautiful, great, noble, and sublime views. But the hiker is also weary and approaches this place where a simple wooden crucifix stands in the midst of beautiful and wonderfully sublime nature. On the crucifix there are the following words:

Stay your steps, wanderer,
Look on my wounds.
Wounds abide,
Hours glide.
Take heed, and guard your way,
Be aware what on the judgment day
Over you as verdict I shall say.

The experience we can have on reading these words can be greater and can touch our hearts more profoundly than what we may experience on seeing the figure of Christ in Michelangelo's famous painting in the Sistine Chapel. The author of the words I have just spoken is unknown. Yet, all those who understand anything about poetry know that the person who wrote the words: "Wounds abide, hours glide," is one of the greatest poets of all time. But first one has to have a feeling for this and know that true poetry is the poetry that pours out of the human soul in the right place. Not all words that rhyme, not all that passes for poetry is true poetry. But it is true poetry when out of Christianity's eternal truths there pours forth.

These are simple words, sublime words — grandest poetry! To be made aware of the greatest event in the evolution of the earth while surrounded by sublime nature and its graceful beauty means to experience with the soul the reality in the universe. This is only an example and a more profoundly touching one than the previous one of the sundial. The important thing is to develop in life so that when we meet with such things, we do not pass by reality but experience the human soul growing together with reality and maintain the balance even in our relation to what was not made by human beings, but was given by the eternal powers. We can perceive the spiritual world only when our striving is neither only one-sided mysticism, nor only one-sided observation of nature, but instead is directed toward the union of both.

3. The Word of the Day for August 10 was: ANODYNE

I'd like to share this marvelous word of the day with you. As you read the definition of the word below, note particularly how both definitions 1 and 2 apply to the doyletics speed trace.

1. The speed trace serves to alleviate pain when the pain is a result of a doylic memory which creates some discomfort. These doylic discomforts often appear indistinguishable from physiological pain. One needs to know that physiological pain runs through the exact same circuits of the brain, the hypothalamus as doylic pain. It was Joseph LeDoux's work described in his book, "The Emotional Brain", which clued me to that fact. If you haven't read my review of his book, Google my site to find it.

2. The speed trace is innocuous in the sense that it will only remove the offensive doyle you are tracing. Thus it is definitely "not likely to offend." Also it removes tension and therefore it is "not likely to arouse tensions." Doylic memories, especially the ones you will want to trace away, are usually doyles of tension, perhaps even dynamic tension, as in the unbalanced wavering of the acrophobic or in my falling into the sky doyle.

Some of you know that Google, Inc. insists that you capitalize Google even when you use it as a verb in a sentence, as I did above. They are a business, and the word "Google" which they coined from the word "googol" belongs to them. This prompts me to remind you that the words "doyletics" and "doyles" and "doylic" are my gift to the world. I coined them, and, rightly understood, they are my primary property (aka intellectual property), but I decided from the beginning to give them to the world as automatic remoteness dilution (aka, no specified charge in advance).

It may take decades for my coined words to become as popular as "Google" is today, but I guarantee you that they will. Just as anyone can benefit daily from Googling a word to check for misspelling, find a map or an image, or a website, or reference, etc, so can anyone benefit from doing a speed trace to remove an unwanted doyle which may cause them pain and the discomfort which can result. A speed trace is a way of asking your body whether this unpleasantness you're feeling is simply an old pre-5 memory. Ask it and if the answer is "Yes", then the unpleasantness will disappear, for good. And, I hope you agree, that is very good indeed!

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      anodyne \AN-uh-dyne\ adjective

1 : serving to alleviate pain
*2 : not likely to offend or arouse tensions : innocuous

Example sentence:
Afraid of seeming overly critical, the new coach would only offer a few anodyne suggestions.

Did you know?
"Anodyne" came to English via Latin from Greek "anodynos" ("without pain"), and it has been used as both an adjective and a noun ("something that relieves pain") since the 16th century. It has sometimes been used of things that dull or lull the senses and render painful experiences less so. Edmund Burke used it this way, for example, in 1790 when he referred to flattery as an "anodyne draft of oblivion" that renders one (in this particular case, the deposed king Louis XVI) forgetful of the flatterer's true feelings. In the 1930s, a newer second sense began appearing in our vocabulary. Now, in addition to describing things that dull pain, "anodyne" can also refer to that which doesn't cause discomfort in the first place.

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

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4. Computer Art and Poetry

A computer cannot transcend its programmers, but a human can. A computer cannot exceed its limitations, but a human being has no limitations except the ones they accept and expect to happen. EAT-O-TWIST!

To select a great work of art or a great poem would require that a computer have a huge data bases with all the greatest works of art and greatest poems of literary history. In addition the data base would have to include the bad poems so the computer could distinguish the good from the bad. Since there are many times more bad works than great ones, the database would have be enormous. Even given such a data base, the computer’s task of comparison would be daunting — it would require much more time and processing than determining the next move in a chess game.

Once such a computer has been programmed, we would quickly find upon feeding it a new poem that it would fail because what makes a new poem great is exactly that is not like any of the other great poems. Walt Whitman's blank verse would have been deemed not to be poetry at by a computer program as nothing about it rhymed. Similarly for new works of art. What would such a computer have done with Picasso’s early cubist paintings? It would have rejected them as trivial and ugly, no doubt.

New works of great art come about from the destruction of the sameness of the extant works. This is another way of saying that new works come from the spiritual world, not the material world. A computer, which has no soul, may be able to compare new art with older forms of art, but it cannot receive inspiration from the spiritual world to create a new work of art. What a human being can do, with little or no training — admire a great work of art — a computer cannot do at all. Computers live solely in the past accomplishments of humans beings. Human beings, when they are not imitating computers, can live in the future world they are able to create.

5. Innocent Murderers and Killer Storms

Does it seem as curious to you as it does to me that we seem to have wandered into a world where people who kill other people can be declared innocent of any intent to kill while the natural forces of Nature can be declared to be killers? It certainly seems odd to me that a proven or confessed killer can be declared innocent by reason of insanity while a tornado can be declared to be a "killer storm." Isn't there any legal protection for slandering Nature? After all, the statistics of the victims of a so-called killer hurricane include even those who, e.g., go surfing in the high waves, do they not?

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• Dear Bobby:
  There sure is a lot to digest in your Digest! You really had me going in your Cajun Story" I am still digesting the Rudolf Steiner's Secret Brotherhoods and the Mystery of the Human Double. I did not know about the ahrimanic double.

  You must be one of the most efficient and profficient people on the planet! Seeing all you do I sometimes feel like a pre-crawling baby.
  Thanks for all you do and send--keeping us abreast in many quarters.
  Ciao, Dave Lyons

• Dear Bobby,
  I thoroughly enjoyed your new (August) digest and wanted to mention how exceptional your photos were, as many have mentioned in this month's issue, but they REALLY are exceptional. I just loved the 'New Stuff' with the sea life swimming. The card is just adorable. I know that Alaina (our granddaughter) would just love the card!
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• Hey there mon ami, I cannot recall when I was last accused of "desultory philippics" but I plead guilty as charged.
  Love, Kevin
  [This was in reference to a comment I left on Kevin Dann's recent Beyond Main Street Blog "Snooping out the Sophians", where I wrote, "Enjoyed this more than your recent spate of desultory philippics against a certain political figure, a habit which I fain have fall into rapid desuetude," which is sesquipedalian gobbledegook for "I like your new approach."]

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