Two Lines in Some Manner About a Book! #2

The continuing saga of reading continues the saga:


Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman

IQ isn't the only measure: EI, emotional intelligence, though unmeasurable, really, plays a significant role in the use of our intelligence intelligence; but it's not taught in schools. Next time a pen rolls off the table and your hand flicks faster than gravity, catching the pen, you'll recognize your amygdala, and action without thought.


Meditation Yoga, Masahiro Oki

Yoga isn't stretching; it's the universe and everything in it. Read this book, and others like it.


The Sickening Mind, Paul Martin

Stress not only fascilitates sickness, it can make you sick. Through a somewhat complex mechanism called the nervous system, your very body may suppress your very immune system to help deal with stresses; just try not to allow it to persist--that's the trick (note: emotional intelligence, meditation yoga, Gurdjieff can help).

Gurdjieff, John Shirley

Gurdjieff seems a madman, perhaps was, but his history and methods are startlingly persuasive. Thinking back on it now, everything seems so clear: people are sleeping machines; so am I, so are you-- shock!

Learning to Bow, Bruce S. Feiler

A great insight into Japan, from a teacher in the early days of English teaching--he speaks Japanese too. Felt like he was telling my story; I'm sure you'll feel similar--check it out: a great look into the culture that's still relevant today.

Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky

The world is not as it appears; the surface we are shown is generally a mistruth, a deceit even. Read this and be saddened, and hopefully compelled to compassionate outrage--a great work by a relentlessly thorough and straightforward reader of the things we should all know.




Twilight of the Idols, Friedrich Nietzsche

This book is about more than can be said in two lines. But, indeed, can we all agree that the twilight looms and it's finally time?

Blink!, Malcolm Gladwell

Trust your instincts, so long as you've honed them to a fine point by the fires of experience. Learn to listen to your guts by training it's voice--if you want quick decesions, you must know what you're doing; who knew?



Technopoly, Neil Postman

Technology takes us over as we become more and more dependant on technologies, and do we wonder: how much benefit do we gain, and what do we lose--he makes a funny point about computers (those who profit from them come up with good arguments for their existence, but what do we gain really?). Progress is measured in technological terms, and we have access to more information than we could ever need; informed and smart, or just overwhelmed and unaware--what about human development?



Supernatural, Graham Hancock

What cave paintings, faeries, and alien abductions have in common: they are different manifestations of the same other worldy reality existing just out of sensory reach. Reach the other side through a variety of psychadelic means, trance states, or just by a natural burst of excess DMT from your brain; apparently a lot of people see the same things, and not just hippies--cavemen and europeans and ancient greeks alike (what they all have in common: DNA; humans have shared the same form for potentially 200,000 years, passing on the same information all along)!