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The Pain-Body: What We Carry With Us -
Barbara Clark (471)     Barbara Clark    In Chapter 5 of "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose," author Eckhart Tolle states, "The energy field of old but still very much alive emotion that lives in almost every human being is the pain-body." --page 142 Our pain-bodies are the energy of our past hurts: the bumps, bruises and... ( added 19 days 6 hours ago.) |
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The Roles We Play in Relationships -
Barbara Clark (471) Barbara Clark In Chapter 4 of "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose," author Eckhart Tolle states, "When you are completely identified with a role, you confuse a pattern of behavior with who you are, and you take yourself very seriously. You also automatically assign roles to others that correspond to... ( added 19 days 7 hours ago.) |
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Breaking Free of The Pain-Body -
Barbara Clark (471) Barbara Clark While author Eckhart Tolle suggests in Chapter 6 of "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose," that "it takes no time at all" to become free of our identification with our pain-body (page 183), he also says that breaking free of our pain-bodies doesn't generally instantaneously happen. It... ( added 19 days 6 hours ago.) |
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Metafiction and the 4th Wall -
Bill Ectric (1,091)   Bill Ectric Most "new" concepts are not really new. They come and go in various incarnations, ever growing in our mass consciousness, until they reach the critical mass known as "everyone is talking about it." Two such concepts are metafiction in literature and its TV & film equivalent, "breaking the fourth... ( added 2 years 319 days ago.) |
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Gothicism as a Means to Awaken Equality in Victorian Women -
Cynthia McMurray (479)  Cynthia McMurray By the early 1800s, the rigid harshness and macabre atmosphere of the traditional Gothic Romance had subtly transformed into a more controversial medium depicting the dysfunctional societal constructs of gender and class-related bias. Two writers in particular utilized this highly established... ( added 21 days 21 hours ago.) |
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Mood and Action in a Tale of the Far Future - Seeds of the Dusk -
 - Robert Gibson (184)   Robert Gibson The story "Seeds of the Dusk" by Raymond Z Gallun, published in 1938, is a gem of classic SF. Its 31 pages give us an insight into the lives and fates of three species: an alien invading plant intelligence; the descendants of crows; and the descendants of Man. Into this short tale are packed... ( added 48 days 18 hours ago.) |
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A Plea for Pastiche in Science Fiction -
- Robert Gibson (184) Robert Gibson A story should be judged on its merits, not on its date of publication. Most people, I'm sure, will agree with that. But perhaps not so many would agree with the following proposition, which stems directly from the previous one: that a story which we would have enjoyed had it been written... ( added 48 days 19 hours ago.) |
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Politics with a Difference - Science-Fictional Constitutions -
- Robert Gibson (184) Robert Gibson It's fun to set the world to rights on paper, and SF authors are no slackers when it comes to inventing constitutions. Some of them are recognizably "close to home" in that they merely tinker with what we already have. Neville Shute's In The Wet (1953) portrays an amendment to... ( added 48 days 19 hours ago.) |
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Solar System Development Area - Planetary Romance -
- Robert Gibson (184) Robert Gibson First the rhapsody, then the grumble. We live in a fantastic age of astronomical discovery. No one is a greater fan of space-probe epics than I. As Voyager 2 passed no less than four giant worlds and their satellite families in 1979, 1981, 1986 and 1989, I was hooked on the news as I avidly... ( added 48 days 19 hours ago.) |
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Colourful Institutions in Science Fiction -
- Robert Gibson (184) Robert Gibson If you plunge into the vast literature of SF you will soon experience the richness of its sociological range, in particular, the institutions it creates. Some of these, though splendidly described, are close analogies or even copies of institutions that have existed in historic reality. A... ( added 48 days 19 hours ago.) |
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Humane Measures - Miles Not Metric in Science Fiction -
- Robert Gibson (184) Robert Gibson Apart from the United States, which to its great honour has preserved its heritage of English-language measurements, we in the rest of the English-speaking world live in a style-deaf age in which the authorities would have us believe that "centimetre" and "kilometre" fit in with the natural... ( added 48 days 19 hours ago.) |
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Monochrome Science Fiction -
- Robert Gibson (184) Robert Gibson Colour is not essential to a good story. As an analogy, think of film. High Noon (1951) could have been shot in colour, but it is much better, much more intense and atmospheric, for being in black and white. Some of my favourite SF authors are markedly monochrome in their stories. Consider... ( added 48 days 19 hours ago.) |
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Reincarnation as a Theme in Science Fiction -
- Robert Gibson (184) Robert Gibson One might invent a science-fictional rationale for reincarnation, perhaps using the concept of a physical stream of particles such as the "mindons" of Bob Shaw's Orbitsville Departure. However, what most people mean by reincarnation - the soul, which is to say the qualitative aspect of a... ( added 48 days 19 hours ago.) |
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No Salvation Outside the Faith? A Metaphor from Science Fiction -
- Robert Gibson (184) Robert Gibson In the more dreary areas of religious debate it is sometimes assumed that we've got to insist that anyone must be a believer in order to be saved, if we are to maintain the idea that faith is essential for salvation. The idea is that those two propositions stand and fall together. If you can... ( added 48 days 19 hours ago.) |
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Avoiding the Open-Ended in Science Fiction and Fantasy - Pruning an Idea -
- Robert Gibson (184) Robert Gibson We can easily picture the problem of those who have to write stories about Superman. How do you build up sympathy for a character like that? For a writer it is interesting, from a technical point of view, to observe how the problem is surmounted; how for instance Superman can be given personal... ( added 48 days 19 hours ago.) |
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How to Cope with the Really Far Future in Science Fiction -
- Robert Gibson (184) Robert Gibson Since it is so notoriously difficult to predict even a few decades ahead, how can a writer predict millions of years ahead? The obvious answer is that there is no need to try, since science fiction is about speculation, not prediction. However there has to be some resonance with what we feel and... ( added 51 days 13 hours ago.) |
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Inventors of Words - Neologisms in Science Fiction -
- Robert Gibson (184) Robert Gibson Surely the most famous new word coined in science fiction is "robot", in the 1920 play by the Czech writer Karel Capek': R. U. R. ("Rossum's Universal Robots"). I don't know any Czech but I dare say "robot" comes from a root similar to the Russian rabotat , to work. Here, therefore, rather than a... ( added 51 days 13 hours ago.) |
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The Chequered Board: Filling in the Gaps in a Series -
Robert Gibson (184) Robert Gibson The title of this essay is a tribute to Nevil Shute's fine novel The Chequered Board . It is as much an array of stories as a novel; the subplots are linked by the story of a man who has only a few months to live and is trying to use that time to find out what happened to several people whom he... ( added 176 days 21 hours ago.) |
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The Charms of Spoken English -
Satis Shroff (651)  Satis Shroff Whether you hear Radio Nepal, the BBC, CNN or the Voice of America, there’s no such thing as ‘correct spoken English.’ There is no standard as such, even though the Queen’s English is regarded as a measuring yard. As George Bernard Shaw said, ‘No two British subjects speak exactly alike.’ Whether... ( added 1 year 4 days ago.) |
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What Is Poetry Becoming…Visual, Concrete, Digital, Experiential? -
Jennifer Kathleen Phillips (585)   Jennifer Kathleen Phillips There are many forms of poetry. Some are best read while others are best viewed and in the future we may add that some are best felt or experienced. Some think that “good poetry" must rhyme while others think that “good" poetry “speaks" giving a clear or profound message. Others may call... ( added 1 year 148 days ago.) |
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Trying to Find Good Used Books? This Article Can Help! -
Kathy Steinemann (168)  Kathy Steinemann New books - especially hardcover editions - are expensive. However, there are ways to locate both paperback and hardcover copies of books at a reasonable price. Remember the great Pearl S. Buck novel that you read in high school? Now, years later, you want to find a copy so that you can read... ( added 1 year 171 days ago.) |
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Are You Just TOO Busy to Read a Good Book? -
Kathy Steinemann (168) Kathy Steinemann Nowadays, most people are extremely active. We juggle careers, family, and leisure time - slurping coffee to stay awake while we watch a TV show or finish a business report - when we should be peacefully sleeping. Who has time to read anymore? Audio Books More and more books are being... ( added 1 year 197 days ago.) |
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Book Review: Arthur & George by Julian Barnes -
Bill Ectric (1,091) Bill Ectric Julian Barnes does a magic trick in his historical novel Arthur & George . He makes the index cards disappear. He scoops up what must have undeniably been copious notes and footnotes, shuffles those note cards, deftly blends them, and fans the deck into a colorful moving picture of the sites... ( added 2 years 5 days ago.) |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Romantic Movement -
Bill Ectric (1,091) Bill Ectric When I think of Coleridge, I think of those momentary sparks of intuition I have experienced, when my brain seemed to grasp a clear and divine truth. It’s like seeing something from the corner of my eye when I turn to look more closely - it's gone! If others do not share this impression, that is... ( added 2 years 5 days ago.) |
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King Solomon's Mind -
Jerry Richard Boone (64) "Don't you understand, everything in this life is meaningless," cautioned the old man. "Meaningless? Everything? Surely not!" responded the young man in disbelief. Smiling the old man continued, "I know, I know, because I've seen it all. You name it, and I have done it. I not only... ( added 2 years 275 days ago.) |
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