Why would I rather read Frances Yates on Giordano Bruno,
the Art of Memory, Rennaissance Magic, and John Dee, than
read a novel, even a good novel such as John Crowley’s Aegypt
that talks about these books?
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What is INTELLIGENCE?
Watching many people with different claims on intelligence
or the refusal of it, it seems to me that the key to a large
dimension of intelligence is the passion to learn and understand
– understand experience, understand reality – itself.
Many people are afraid to have this passion – or do not trust
themselves to pursue what they see to its conclusions.
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What is the nature of battle shock?
After the war a U.S. survivor of Iwo Jima said
“the dreams that I had, they were just like reality to me.”
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Why did the 60 Minutes interview with the Obamas make
me feel like I was in the rectory of an Episcopal Church or
the Harvard Divinity School?
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