Novelist, author of THE GOOD DEATH OF KATE MONTCLAIR, and philosopher @ChristendomVA. Walking the way of beauty in a technologized world.
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Humbled by the latest 5-star Amazon review of my novel, THE GOOD DEATH OF KATE MONTCLAIR.
Pick up a Christmas copy for the reader in your life here:
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We are now living in a world that is fully deluded—a delusion that manifests many of the same characteristics found in people suffering from schizophrenia.
Fascinating discussion by #IainMcGilchrist
#attention #brain #philosophy #culture
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“He was, to the last agonies of asceticism, a Troubadour. He was a Lover. He was a lover of God and he was really and truly a lover of men; possibly a much rarer mystical vocation.”
G. K. Chesterton
Saint Francis of Assisi
#SaintFrancisOfAssisi
Feast day today
This morning I offer a bit of lectio Tolkieniana. Like lectio divina, lectio Tolkieniana consists in taking a passage from one of Tolkien’s works and “chewing on it” in one’s mind and heart.
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#tolkien #lotr
Hey, that Professor is me!
Professor @comicmuse writes on the brilliance of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ability to create fairy-stories that help open our eyes to see life as it is, joyful and more marvelous than any story written. wordonfire.org/articles/tolk…
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Professor @comicmuse writes on the brilliance of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ability to create fairy-stories that help open our eyes to see life as it is, joyful and more marvelous than any story written. wordonfire.org/articles/tolk…
One way of describing what has happened in the West in the past 400 years is to say that our attention has been severely contracted as we have pursued a wholesale cultural reduction of human thinking and activity to the left hemisphere of the brain.
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The Tyranny of Left-Hemisphere Thinking
How neuroscience helps explain the ills of our technopoly
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@lukeburgis @yanisvaroufakis @RobDoyle1
#iainmcgilchrist #technology #technopoly #philosophy #fiction #culture
Are you one of those people who go to the art museum gift shop first?
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Say hello to the 114 members of the Class of 2023! Congratulations to our soon-to-be graduates! 🎓🎉
Museum security guards.
What do you they talk about when they whisper together?
I think I know...
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Marshall McLuhan - so far head of his time. He's talking about surveillance technology and the dematerialisation of the body. Also - about how digital technology leads us to a culture of nostalgia!
Thx To RR for the link.
“Which book do you wish you had written—and why?”
That was the first question Dominic de Souza asked me when we sat down together for this conversation on the Legendmakers podcast.
What was my reply? Press PLAY and find out…
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Happy Release Day!
To learn more about Who Am I to Judge?, visit chrismpress.com/books/martha….
Can movie watching be part of the deep life?
An interesting take by Cal Newport at 36:05 of his latest podcast.
#deeplife #movies #films #cinema #tarantino podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
What does it mean to be truly alive?
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#billnighy #living #film #movies #cinema #screenwriting #screenwriters #personaldevelopment #growthmindset #growth #philosophy
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When Modernist Architect Le Corbusier said his famous phrase "a house is a machine for living" what he really meant was "humans are really just machines to be controlled by planners".
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I think we are ready to build a whole new era of culture. The talent available is unreal--those who have kept their integrity in an impossible time--and people are exhausted with the degeneracy, doom, and hopelessness.
It's uphill, but people are starving for something better.
