This month I finally put the finishing touches on a project that had been sitting in limbo for some
time. I had unearthed a series of reviews that were the first ones that I did back in 1987. Short but
interesting reviews by a variety of authors including Paul Bohannen, Pat Conroy, Ken Carey,
Whitely Strieber, Eudora Welty, Jane Austen, Mircea Eliade, Roy Blount, Stephen Lankton,
James Carse, Natsume Soseki, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Brian Swimme,
Tom T. Hall, Mary Stewart and James Body White. Read my reviews of these authors' works
at: http://www.doyletics.com/arj87rev.htm
I awoke from sleep one morning this month and found an answer to an unanswered question that
I had been holding for several years:
What is the relationship between the feelings that come from doyles and those that come from a
direct experience of spiritual realities?
The latter are often described as ineffable, a fancy word meaning that they're indescribable, and
often the mystics who say this are otherwise quite able writers. Suppose the direct experience of
the spiritual world is like being present in a box at a symphony concert, and the doylic feelings
are tinny recordings of the experience after the fact? If that were so, the only recorded and
therefore describable spiritual realities would be those that we had before we were five years old,
when as a child we were still able to experience the spiritual world directly and thus recorded
those experiences as what became known as feelings to us thereafter. The evidence in the works
of writers such as Wordsworth, Freud, Rousseau, Steiner, LeDoux, Samuel Hoffenstein, Owen
Barfield and others are offered in this essay which you can read on-line at:
http://www.doyletics.com/childofh.htm or if you forget this link, simply click on the highlighted
words "doylic memory" in the heading paragraph of the doyletics.com home page at:
http://www.doyletics.com .
A shorter project was getting my Matherne's Rules up on the website for all to see. They are
linked from the Index page at doyletics.com right below my photo, but you can go directly to
them by clicking below:
http://www.doyletics.com/mrules.htm
Thanks to the efforts of our "Crocodile Samdi" down under (Sam DiChiera), the Website
Cobbling Calebrese and Master Vintner, we now have a Real Player video of the Second Lorena
Speed Trace of her Roller Coaster fear doyles. That will require a 5 Mb download of Real Player
if you don't already have it set up plus a 8.9 Mbyte of the full speed trace. For a glimpse of the
beginning of the trace, we have an MPEG clip of a portion of the same Speed Trace, and it
doesn't require a special player to view. The Live Speed Trace with Lorena Castro was done at El
Paso Community College on June 19, 2000. Special thanks also go to Prof. Roméo Di Benedetto
and Daniel Matt (Director of the Center for Instructional Television, EPCC) for permission to
show this clip on Doyletic.com. The Mplayer file is 1.6 Mbytes long so plan for it to take about 4
mins. on a 57K modem to load. Once it loads you can save it locally to view multiple times. The
Real Player file is 8.9 Mb and will take about 15 mins. to load before viewing and you won't be
able to save the file for later viewing. Check out the Preview at this page:
http://www.doyletics.com/tvbrintv.htm
and the Full SPEED TRACE on this page:
http://www.doyletics.com/most_tm.htm#Lorena
Check out Bobby's FIQ (Famous and Interesting Quotes). Several new quotes were added near
the top of the page, such as this one:
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. -- Carl Zwanzig
This is Bobby's personal collection, which he has amassed over the past twenty years of writing
and recently added to the website at:
http://www.doyletics.com/quotes.htm
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