{"id":621,"date":"2017-11-09T15:25:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T15:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2018.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=621"},"modified":"2018-02-15T21:41:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T21:41:18","slug":"november-2017-good-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2017\/11\/09\/november-2017-good-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"november 2017 – good to read"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lincoln in the Bardo<\/h3>\t\t\t

George Saunders<\/strong>
\nIn 1862, when Abraham Lincoln\u2019s son Willie dies, his grieving father reportedly returns to the vault several times, alone, to hold the boy\u2019s body.
\nFrom that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins a story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state \u2013 called the bardo in the Tibetan tradition \u2013 a struggle erupts over young Willie\u2019s soul. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a theatrical panorama of voices to ask the timeless question: How do we live and love when weknow that everything we love must end? We are delighted that a book we chose for you just won the prestigious Booker Prize!
\nRandom House, February 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Consciousness and Object. A mind-object identity physicalist theory<\/h3>\t\t\t

Riccardo Manzotti<\/strong>
\nWhat is the conscious mind? What is experience? In 1968, David Armstrong
\nasked \u201cWhat is a man?\u201d and replied that a man is \u201ca certain sort of material object\u201d. This book starts from his question but proceeds along a different path. The traditional mind-brain identity theory is set aside, and a mind-object identity theory is proposed in its place: to be conscious of an object is simply to be made of that object. Consciousness is physical but not neural.
\nJohn Benjamins, October 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Standing at the Edge. Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet<\/h3>\t\t\t

Joan Halifax<\/strong>
\nJoan Halifax has enriched thousands of lives around the world through her work as a humanitarian, a social activist, an anthropologist, and a Buddhist teacher. Over many decades, she has also collaborated with neuroscientists, clinicians, and psychologists to understand how contemplative practice can be a vehicle for social transformation. Through her unusual background, she developed an understanding of how our greatest challenges can become the most valuable source of our wisdom \u2013 and how we can transform our experience of suffering into the power of compassion for others.
\nFlatiron, May 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Lou Reed: A Life<\/h3>\t\t\t

Anthony DeCurtis\u00a0<\/strong>
\nWith unparalleled access to dozens of Lou\u2019s friends, family, and collaborators, DeCurtis tracks the singer\u2019s five-decade career through the accounts of those who knew him and through his most revealing testimony, his music. We travel deep into his defiantly subterranean world, enter the studio as the Velvet Underground record their groundbreaking work, and revel in Lou\u2019s relationships with such legendary figures as Andy Warhol, David Bowie and Laurie Anderson. Gritty, intimate, and unflinching, Lou Reed<\/em>is an illuminating tribute to one of the most incendiary artists of our time.
\nJon Murray, October 2017<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Deconstructing Gurdjieff. Biography of a Spiritual Magician<\/h3>\t\t\t

Tobias Churton<\/strong>
\nEmploying the latest research and discoveries, including previously unpublished reminiscences, Tobias Churton investigates the truth beneath the self-crafted mythology of Gurdjieff, revealing a perilous childhood in a Greek family, persecuted by Turks, forced to migrate to Georgia and Armenia, only to grow up amid more war, persecution, genocide and revolt. Placing Gurdjieff in the true context of his times, Churton explores the spiritual teacher\u2019s roles in esoteric movements taking root in the Russian Empire and in epic imperial construction projects in the Kars Oblast, Transcaucasia and central Asia. He reveals the sources of Gurdjieff\u2019s transformative philosophy, his early interest in hypnosis, magic, Theosophy, and spiritualism and the profound influence of the Yezidis and the Sufis, the \u201cgnostics\u201d of Islam, on Gurdjieff\u2019s Fourth Way teachings and the \u201cWork.\u201d Churton also explores Gurdjieff\u2019s ties to Freemasonry and his relationships with other spiritual teachers and philosophers of the age, such as Madame Blavatsky, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Aleister Crowley.
\nInner Traditions, June 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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