Recently read books and movies I, Others? like

[David Morris]

I'm watch it also.

I've only read the Wilhelm translation of the I Ching, which seems very
deep to me.  I've throw a few coins, and the messages are usually worth
pondering.

On Tuesday, February 5, 2013, Ian Livingston wrote:

> Thanks! I'll have to watch the youtube vid a little later on, and I will
> add Departures and The Moors to my list. I see few good movies, really, and
> have determined to relegate film to the area of entertainment. I just
> received Jane Campion's latest, Portrait of a Lady, but my sweetie and I
> will have to watch that together, I think, which, given our schedules, is
> no small feat.
>
> The Tao Te Ching and I Ching are both rich reads. Both invite various
> translations, which is one reason I am particularly fond of Jonathan
> Starr's Tao Te Ching. His translation offers a glossary of each verse with
> various translations for each character in the verse. I think such a volume
> of the I Ching would run into the thousands of pages, so I am content with
> Alfred Huang's version.
>
> My favorite recent read has been Spinoza's Ethics. It is strikingly rich
> for such a quick read and it seems a likely Pynchon influence.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'brook7 at sover.net');>
> > wrote:
>
>> Some folks are paranoid or perhaps just wisely cautious  these days about
>> personal info but I'm going to list a few media inputs I have found
>> worthwhile lately and would love to hear from others.
>>
>>   This is Terrance Mckenna doing a wonderfully rich lecture about
>> Finnegan's Wake. He also delves into Marshall Mcluhan and many interesting
>> and appropriate  side trips Terence McKenna -- Surfing Finnegan's Wake
>> Part 1/13 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq9jmELA00U>
>>
>>  The Japanese film Departures I found to be beautiful.
>>
>> The Tao Te Ching in a variety of translations
>>
>> Gary Snyder's  Practice of the Wild
>>
>> The Man Who Planted Trees by Jim Robbins  ( This is not the famous short
>> story  but a nonfiction work by a NYT science writer about a man who had a
>> near death experience that caused him to start making clones of the largest
>> and oldest trees in North America and now other bioregions. It leads into
>> fascinating current science on trees.)
>>
>> When the Moors ruled Europe  ( Netflix)
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