BOOK REVISIONS

STILLNESS new essay

VIRTUE new essay

SEX new essay

R R R new essay, the three Rs in education are not enough ... a fourth R is required

RELIGIOUS new essay, what is a true religious experience?

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Edition 65

GUNS 2 new essay about the gun routine by stand-up comic Jim Jefferies, see blog 1054

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Edition 64

XXXIX new pages about blog 1052: Humanity’s Potential, based on the book THE PRECIPICE:

Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

AI new essay

LIE new essay

MEANING new essay

PRECIPICE new essay

ABORIGINAL new essay

BLACK, BLACK LIVES MATTER new essays

EINSTEIN added a footnote to E=mc2about the properties of energy

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Edition 63

HUMAN new essay, what is a human being?

RELIGION 3 updated, with new references re. the notion that only religion can provide ethics

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Edition 62

ARETE new essay

After reading Chris Hedges': WAR is a FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANING (bitterly poetic war journalism), I added these essays:

WAR 1, 2

WAR / PEACE-CONSCIOUSNESSI added a footnote re. WAR

PATRIOTISMI added a footnote re. WAR

LOVEI added a footnote re. WAR

SOLDIERSI added a footnote re. WAR

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Edition 61

MUSIC new essay

EINSTEIN added a definition for the theory of relativity

THE FUTURE 1 a re-write of THE FUTURE

After reading two new books (new for me) Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules For Life and Robert Wright's Why Buddhism Is True, I added to these essays:

BUDDHISM

HAPPINESS

JESUS

KNOW YOUR SELF

MEDITATION 3

XXXVIII

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Edition 60

ALTRUISM new essay

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Edition 59

XXXVIIIthe full text of my blog 1001, it’s an extended version of my essay THREE THOUSAND

XXXVII new page, blog 997, re. an article in the NYT by Richard Flanegan about the climate emergency

ALONE I added the idea of still ... being alone and still may lead to experiencing inner peace

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Edition 58

HOPE new essay

PEACE I re-wrote the footnotes to the essay, after I included the Stanislav Petrov incident

NOW new essay

SECULARISM new essay

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XXXVI new page with the email exchange that forms the background to pages XXXIV and XXXV

STOICISM added a footnote about Marcus Aurelius's book Meditations

SCRIPTURE amended essay and added footnotes about the Bible's content on homosexuals

(they shall surely be put to death ...) and husband and wives (the latter shall submit to the former)

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Edition 56

XXXV new page from blog 985, about religious indoctrination and the question:

What shall we tell the children

XXXIV I re-wrote page XXXIII about blog 958 Belief vs Reality

MEDITATION 3 I re-wrote the section about mindfulness meditation

BELIEF I added the footnote about believing in nothing

FAITH I added the footnote about the movie Hacksaw Ridge and Desmond Doss

BLASPHEMY a small update, with an immediate direction to THE TRUTH

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Edition 55

DHARMA new essay

PRESENCE new essay

XXIV new page from blog 932 Spirituality and Intellectual Honesty

XXVII I re-wrote the conditions of the First Filter

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Edition 54

QUALITY I re-wrote the essay

HAPPINESSadded a footnote about the difference in happiness for Buddhists and us Westeners

DAWKINSnew essay, about the scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins

DUALITYnew footnote about non-dualism in respect of calamities like the Holocaust

MONEYadded the last footnote, about a negative aspect of money

GOD 6added a section in the footnotes, about cardinal Pell's warped beliefs

XXXIIIamended the appendix page with blog 958 Belief vs Reality, referencing George Pell

COMPLEXITYnew essay, about the chaos in our lives

EXPECTATIONSmade changes, about how expectations are a trap

RENAISSANCE MANadded Stephen Fry,

the man who displays the effortless superiority that comes with being English

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Edition 53made many changes to formatting and punctuation

GNOSTICISMnew essay, gnostics believed in a world of duality

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Edition 52

THREETHOUSANDamended the time-line of the history of humankind after reading Sapiens

JESUSamended the footnotes with a reference to Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari

MONEY amended the footnotes with reference to Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari

FAITH added the story of Desmond Doss and Hacksaw Ridge

PANPSYCHISM new essay, panpsychism relates consciousness to the physical world

ETHICS added a section to the footnotes about the secular nature of ethics

QUALITY new essay with a definition of Quality, as per ZEN and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Edition 51

KRISHNAMURTI added one last thought about meditation

MONEY added two paragraphs after reading The Barefoot Investor; amended my note re. Bob Proctor to: 'To help you feel rich, visit Bob at bobproctor.com'

REALITY 1 a new edit, to the last sentence: There is no God; the belief in the dogma of an interventionist God potentially causes violence and wars

XXXIIInew appendix page with blog 958 Belief vs Reality

PHILOSOPHYnew essaylisting my influences

STOICISMmade edits after I started reading The Daily Stoic

LGBTadded non-binary and cisgender

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Edition 50

FREE WILLadded a footnote about Albert Einstein's take on Free Will

HOLOCAUSTamended the definition for Zionism

MINDFULNESSnew essay

SATORIadded six + one paragraphs in the footnotes, about my inner experiences

XXVIIInew appendix page: an abbreviated version of blog 943 about the Fourth Filter

XXIXnew appendix page: an abbreviated version of blog 946 about Albert Einstein's "God Letter"

XXXnew appendix page: an abbreviated version of blog 949 about Albert Einstein's "Cosmic religion"

XXXIInew appendix page: an abbreviated version of blog 953 about Albert Einstein's "Weltbild"

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EINSTEIN, HAWKINGnew essay: Hawking

XXIVnew appendix page: an abbreviated version of blog 945 about The Sermon On The Mount

XXVIInew appendix page: an abbreviated version of blog 941 about the Great Filter

JESUSnew essay: Christians believe Jesus to be their Messiah, offering salvation & eternal life

REALITY 1new essay: There is no God, so there's no point fighting wars of which God is true

REALITY 4added footnotes with a comment by Krishnamurti, and after reading the book The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking: What is Reality?

SCRIPTUREadded a paragraph in the footnotes, about Jesus' Sermon On The Mount

THE FUTURE 2new essay: Will humanity survive?

CLIMATE CHANGE DENIALISMI added a mention of natural, Ice Age causing climate change

WHYI added three footnotes

XXVthis is the abbreviated version of my blog 938 about Leo Tolstoy and his take on the truth

XXXIII have re-introduced my UNITY page

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Edition 48

 

XVIIthis is a re-write of page 17 in the appendix, my abbreviated version of my blog 482 on truth

JAINISMmade a change referring to the Jain's concept of truth

THE TRUTH 3, 4new essays; combined with THE PATH

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Edition 47

THE PATHnew essay; also new:

XXIII The Path: At the feet of the Master; see also my blog 935

THE TRUTH 1, 2I combined the two essays on the one page, to make room for THE PATH

CREATIVITY, CRIME I added CREATIVITY, which I had deleted before

METAPHYSICS I made changes since I added CREATIVITY again

GOD 6 I added a second section with a reference to a Krishnamurti book, see also my blog 935

WISDOM I added another footnote, also with a reference to a Krishnamurti book

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Edition 46

KNOW YOUR SELF in the footnote, I added the very last sentence, "the self is a process"

MEDITATION 2 I added new footnotes, quotes from Krishnamurti and Osho, see also my blog 927

SPIRITUAL new footnote, about Spirituality and Intellectual Honesty, see also my blog 932

VEDANTA new footnote about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi & Transcendental Meditation, blog 931

GOD 1 this is a re-write of the essay

I have re-instated the additional pages that were in the front of edition 37, they're now an appendix (I removed them after the Foreword Review, see my vlog of 16 March 2018). These are the pages:

XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIV