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diff --git a/reading/A corollary of this concept is the possibility that each land projects a particular religious spirit.txt b/reading/A corollary of this concept is the possibility that each land projects a particular religious spirit.txt
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+"A corollary of this concept is the possibility that each land projects a particular religious spirit, which largely determines what types of religious beliefs will arise on it" (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/All the gettings of occultism must be dedicated to God's service; otherwise there is no justificatio.txt b/reading/All the gettings of occultism must be dedicated to God's service; otherwise there is no justificatio.txt
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+"All the gettings of occultism must be dedicated to God's service; otherwise there is no justification for this intrusion on Nature's mysteries and the forcing of the higher faculties to birth before their time. The highest degree of initiation is crucifixion for the salvation of mankind, the vicarious abreacting of racial karma. Let those who aspire to initiation bear ever in mind what reward it is that will crown their efforts with a crown of thorns. Unless we have so great a love for humanity, so great a sympathy for suffering, that we are not only willing but anxious to avail ourselves of the opportunity' in some small measure to offer ourselves as a sacrifice for the sins of the people, there is no point in setting out upon the Way of Initiation, for its goal will be dust and ashes to the man who remains unregenerate. The aim of initiation is neither magical power nor marvellous experience, but simply the ability to, offer an acceptable sacrifice that shall be effectual for the neutralisation of cosmic karma." (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate) p90
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diff --git a/reading/And we must be careful to see that the old cultural centers of home and community were made vulnerab.txt b/reading/And we must be careful to see that the old cultural centers of home and community were made vulnerab.txt
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+"And we must be careful to see that the old cultural centers of home and community were made vulnerable to this invasion by their failure as economies. If there is no household or community economy, then family members and neighbors are no longer useful to one another. When people are no longer useful to one another, then the centripetal force of family and community fails, and people fall into dependence on exterior economies and organizations. The hegemony of professionals and professionalism erects itself on local failure, and from then on the locality exists merely as a market for consumer goods and as a source of "raw material," human and natural." P164 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/Appalachian trail book.txt b/reading/Appalachian trail book.txt
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+Appalachian trail book
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+No matter the paradoxes. When vou smell the wild forest and feel the wind against your face, the time has come to get out on the trail. The blazes point the way and the spirit god of hikers whispers, "Go, thou restless soul, into the woods of the mountains. Take with you
+any problem, or trouble, or worry. Solvitur ambulando! It is solved
+by walking!" P14
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+Scarcely fifty years ago their society still had the peculiar characteristics of isolation. J. Russell Smith, the geographer, quotes a folklorist friend as saying in indignation, "These missionaries with their schools! I'd like to build a wall about these mountains and let the mountain people alone. *The only distinctive culture in America is here.* The people live. They sustain themselves on the meanest food. They are not interested in eating but they have time to sing ballads. P29
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diff --git a/reading/As Edward Abbey knows and has been telling us, our country is not being destroyed by bad politics; i (2).txt b/reading/As Edward Abbey knows and has been telling us, our country is not being destroyed by bad politics; i (2).txt
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+"As Edward Abbey knows and has been telling us, our country is not being destroyed by bad politics; it is being destroyed by a bad way of life. Bad politics is merely another result.  (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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+"As Edward Abbey knows and has been telling us, our country is not being destroyed by bad politics; it is being destroyed by a bad way of life. Bad politics is merely an-" (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/As local community decays along with local economy.txt b/reading/As local community decays along with local economy.txt
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+As local community decays along with local economy, a vast amnesia settles over the countryside. As the exposed and disregarded soil departs with the rains, so local knowledge and local memory move away to the cities or are forgotten under the influence of homogenized salestalk, entertainment, and education. This loss of local knowledge and local memory-that is, of local culture-has been ignored, or written off as one of the cheaper "prices of progress," or made the business of folklorists. Nevertheless, local culture has a value, and part of its value is economic." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
diff --git a/reading/At first glance, writing may seem not nearly so much an art of the body as, say, dancing or gardenin.txt b/reading/At first glance, writing may seem not nearly so much an art of the body as, say, dancing or gardenin.txt
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+"At first glance, writing may seem not nearly so much an art of the body as, say, dancing or gardening or carpentry. And yet language is the most intimately physical of all the artistic means. We have it palpably in our mouths; it is our langue, our tongue. Writing it, we shape it with our hands. Reading aloud what we have written-as we must do, if we are writing carefully-our language passes in at the eyes, out at the mouth, in at the ears; the words are immersed and steeped in the senses of the body before they make sense in the mind. They cannot make sense in the mind until they have made sense in the body. Does shaping one's words with one's own hand impart character and quality to them, as does speaking them with one's own tongue to the satisfaction of one's own ear? There is no way to prove that it does. On the other hand, there is no way to prove that it does not, and I believe that it does." P 192 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/Blake gives the just proportion or control in another proverb No bird soars too high, if he soars wi.txt b/reading/Blake gives the just proportion or control in another proverb No bird soars too high, if he soars wi.txt
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+"Blake gives the just proportion or control in another proverb: "No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." Only when our acts are empowered with more than bodily strength do we need to think oflimits." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/But I am beginning to see what is needed, and everywhere the need is for diversity. This is the need.txt b/reading/But I am beginning to see what is needed, and everywhere the need is for diversity. This is the need.txt
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+"But I am beginning to see what is needed, and everywhere the need is for diversity. This is the need of every American rural landscape that I am acquainted with. We need a greater range of species and varieties of plants and animals, of human skills and methods, so that the use may be fitted ever more sensitively and elegantly to the place. Our places, in short, are asking us questions, some of them urgent questions, and we do not have the answers." P114 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/But as scale increases1_ diversity le- dines l as diversity declines ,so d~es he~lth; .as h,ealth-de.txt b/reading/But as scale increases1_ diversity le- dines l as diversity declines ,so d~es he~lth; .as h,ealth-de.txt
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+"But as scale increases diversity declines, as diversity declines ,so does health, as health declines, the dependence on drugs and chemicals necessarily increases. As capital replaces labor, it does so by substituting machines, drugs, and chemicals for human workers and for the natural health and fertility of the soil. The food is produced by any means or any shortcut that will increase profits." p149 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
diff --git a/reading/But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wast.txt b/reading/But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wast.txt
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+"But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it. If we wish to correct this economy, we must be careful to understand and to demonstrate how much waste of human life is involved in our waste of the material goods of Creation. For example, much of the litter that now defaces our country is fairly directly caused by the massive secession or exclusion of most of our people from active participation in the food economy. We have made a social ideal of minimal involvement in the growing and cooking of food. This is one of the dearest "liberations" of our affluence. Nevertheless, the more dependent we become on the industries of eating and drinking, the more waste we are going to produce. The mess that surrounds us, then, must be understood not just as a problem in itself but as a symptom of a greater and graver problem: the centralization of our economy, the gathering of the productive property and power into fewer and fewer hands, and the consequent destruction, everywhere, of the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community." P128 Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/By observing the behavior and growth of other organic forms of life, they could see that a benign pe.txt b/reading/By observing the behavior and growth of other organic forms of life, they could see that a benign pe.txt
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+"By observing the behavior and growth of other organic forms of life, they could see that a benign personal energy flowed through everything and under­ girded the physical world. They understood that their task was to fit into the physical world in the most constructive manner and to establish relationships with the higher power, or powers, that created and sustained the universe. They sought to learn a way of living that would most efficiently accomplish these tasks. This posture was not unique to any tribe; it was generally the way Indians of all tribes described the mysterious reality that affected their lives."
diff --git a/reading/Education itself is a barrier to a permanent revival of tribal religions. Young people on reservatio (2).txt b/reading/Education itself is a barrier to a permanent revival of tribal religions. Young people on reservatio (2).txt
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+"Education itself is a barrier to a permanent revival of tribal religions. Young people on reservations have available an increasingly complicated educational system. Perhaps like conservative Christians, older Indians see the educational system as basically godless and tending to destroy commu­ nities rather than create them. As more Indians fight their way through the education system in search of job skill, their education will increasingly concentrate on the tangible and technical aspects of contemporary society and away from the sense of wonder and mystery that has traditionally char­ acterized religious experiences. In almost the same way that young whites have rejected religion once they have made strides in education, young Indians who have received solid educations have rejected traditional reli­ gious experiences. Education and religion apparently do not mix." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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+"Education itself is a barrier to a permanent revival of tribal religions. Young people on reservations have available an increasingly complicated educational system. Perhaps like conservative Christians, older Indians see the educational system as basically godless and tending to destroy commu­ nities rather than create them. As more Indians fight their way through the eJucaliuIl �y�le1ll ill �ealdl uf juL �kill�, d!ci! cducation will ilKlcasingly concentrate on the tangible and technical aspects of contemporary society and away from the sense of wonder and mystery that has traditionally char­ acterized religious experiences. In almost the same way that young whites have rejected religion once they have made strides in education, young Indians who have received solid educations have rejected traditional reli­ gious experiences. Education and religion apparently do not mix." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/Estimate the expenses of your trip, and take more money than your estimate. Carry also an abundance .txt b/reading/Estimate the expenses of your trip, and take more money than your estimate. Carry also an abundance .txt
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+"Estimate the expenses of your trip, and take more money than your estimate. Carry also an abundance of small change." (John Mead Gould – How to Camp Out)
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+Almost inevitably there will come another question, What good is it?
+
+I have never learned how to deal with this question. I am left appalled by the point of view that makes it possible. I don't know where to start explaining the world of nature that the
+biologist sees, in which "What good is it?" becomes meaningless. The question is left over from the Middle Ages; from a small, cozy universe in which everything had a purpose in relation to man. The question comes down from the days before Copernicus' theories removed the earth from the center of the
+solar system, before Newton provided a mechanism for the movements of the stars, before Hutton discovered the immensity of past time, before Darwin's ideas put man into perspective with the rest of the living world. Faced with astronomical space and geological time, faced with the immense diversity of living forms, how can one ask of one particular kind of butterfly, "What good is it?" Often my reaction is to ask in turn, ""What good are you?
+
+Science has put man in his place; one among the millions of kinds of living things crawling around on the surface of a mini planet circling a trivial star. We can't really face the implications of this, and perhaps it is just as well-though I think humility is in general improving for the human character.
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diff --git a/reading/From this point advance may be made to the study of philosophy and metaphysics, and a good introduct.txt b/reading/From this point advance may be made to the study of philosophy and metaphysics, and a good introduct.txt
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+"From this point advance may be made to the study of philosophy and metaphysics, and a good introduction to this study is Herbert Spencer's First Principles." (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate)p22
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diff --git a/reading/God's pleasure in all things must be respected by us in our use of things, and even in our displeasu.txt b/reading/God's pleasure in all things must be respected by us in our use of things, and even in our displeasu.txt
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+"God's pleasure in all things must be respected by us in our use of things, and even in our displeasure in some things. It suggests too that we have an obligation to preserve God's pleasure in all things, and surely this means not only that we must not misuse or abuse anything, but also that there must be some things and some places that by common agreement we do not use at all, but leave wild." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/Human personality has been forced into these predetermined categories without regard to the reality .txt b/reading/Human personality has been forced into these predetermined categories without regard to the reality .txt
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+"Human personality has been forced into these predetermined categories without regard to the reality of human experience. Other reli­ gious systems have been detrimentally explained in terms of the basic Christian categories of explanation." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science. (W.txt b/reading/I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science. (W.txt
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+"I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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+"I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science." P 116Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/I know ofno good reason why these containers and all other forms of manufactured waste''-solid, liqu (2).txt b/reading/I know ofno good reason why these containers and all other forms of manufactured waste''-solid, liqu (2).txt
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+"I know ofno good reason why these containers and all other forms of manufactured "waste''-solid, liquid, toxic, or whatever-should not be outlawed. There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands." P127 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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+"I know ofno good reason why these containers and all other forms of manufactured "waste''-solid, liquid, toxic, or whatever-should not be outlawed. There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/I used to think of Blake's sentence as a justification of youthful excess. By now I know that it des.txt b/reading/I used to think of Blake's sentence as a justification of youthful excess. By now I know that it des.txt
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+"I used to think of Blake's sentence as a justification of youthful excess. By now I know that it describes the peculiar condemnation of our species. When the road of excess has reached the palace of wisdom it is a healed wound, a long scar." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/Ian Barbour said that Darwin’s theory of evolution burst the bounds of the rigid classifications tha.txt b/reading/Ian Barbour said that Darwin’s theory of evolution burst the bounds of the rigid classifications tha.txt
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+"Ian Barbour said that Darwin’s theory of evolution burst the bounds of the rigid classifications that had frozen the great chain of being and that Darwin did to Aristotle’s biology what Newton did to Aristotle’s physics.4 But the revolution in thought triggered by the theory of evolution was more profound than simply loosening the categories of organic existence to allow a gradual transformation of organisms. Ernst Cassirer summarized this revolution as having “destroyed the arbitrary limits between the different forms of organic life. There are no separate species; there is just one continuous and uninterrupted stream of life.”5 Western thinkers have not yet absorbed the meaning of this change in viewpoint in any fundamental way." (Vine Deloria – The Metaphysics of Modern Existence)p72
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diff --git a/reading/In a conversation, you always expect a reply. And you honor the other party to the conversation, if .txt b/reading/In a conversation, you always expect a reply. And you honor the other party to the conversation, if .txt
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+"In a conversation, you always expect a reply. And you honor the other party to the conversation, if you honor the otherness of the other party, you understand that you must not expect always to receive a reply that you foresee or a reply that you will like. A conversation is immitigably two-sided and always to some degree mysterious; itrequires faith." P209 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/In fact, we cannot explain hardly anything about how civilization began. We simply find a very compl.txt b/reading/In fact, we cannot explain hardly anything about how civilization began. We simply find a very compl.txt
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+"In fact, we cannot explain hardly anything about how civilization began. We simply find a very complex urban society when we uncover the ruins of earliest settlements anywhere in the world and we make up fairy tales to avoid asking ourselves hard questions about the origins of these ruins. It is at this point that I could well believe the theory of the ancient astronauts as bringers of culture and technology. This makes as much sense" (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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+"In the Indian world, experience is not limited by mental considerations and assumptions regarding the universe. For the non-Indian the teachings of a lifetime come thundering down. Such things do not occur in time and space. Reality is basically physical. No one sees ghosts. Reality, in a certain sense, is what you allow your mind to accept, not what you experience. And a host of other beliefs rush in to cover up, confuse, and eventually eliminate the experience itself." P5 (Vine Deloria – The Metaphysics of Modern Existence)
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diff --git a/reading/It does no good for historians, folklorists, and anthropologists to collect the songs and the storie.txt b/reading/It does no good for historians, folklorists, and anthropologists to collect the songs and the storie.txt
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+"It does no good for historians, folklorists, and anthropologists to collect the songs and the stories and the lore that make up local culture and store them in books and archives. They cannot collect and store-because they cannot know-the pattern of reminding that can survive only in the living human community in its place. It is this pattern that is the life of local culture and that brings it usefully or pleasurably to mind. Apart from its local landmarks and occasions, the local culture may be the subject of curiosity or of study, but it is also dead." P166 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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+"It follows that as a preliminary to all mental processes we must acquire such control of the emotions that they shall not function involuntarily. Such control is not obtained by the comparatively simple expedient of repression but by the far more difficult process of sublimation, so that the force generated by an external stimulus, instead of producing an immediate reaction of emotion, which might take place where it was not wanted, is directed to a more remote reaction, and discharges harmlessly upon another plane. Thus, an immediate reaction of resentment.is transmuted into compassion and has its issue in charity." (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate)p101
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+"It is probably in the nature of this continent that divisiveness is one of its greatest characteris­ tics, a virtually uncontrollable freedom of the spirit." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/It is with respect to the attitude displayed toward strangers that a com­ munity's psychic identity .txt b/reading/It is with respect to the attitude displayed toward strangers that a com­ munity's psychic identity .txt
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+It is with respect to the attitude displayed toward strangers that a com­ munity's psychic identity can be determined. A community that is uncertain about itself must act in self-defense against any outsider to prevent any con­ ceivable threat to its existence, whereas a community that has a stable identity accords to other communities the dignity of the distinct existence that it wishes to receive itself." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/It may be argued that our whole society is more devoted to pleasure than any whole society ever was .txt b/reading/It may be argued that our whole society is more devoted to pleasure than any whole society ever was .txt
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+"It may be argued that our whole society is more devoted to pleasure than any whole society ever was in the past, that we support in fact a great variety of pleasure industries and that these are thriving as never before. But that would seem only to prove my point. That there can be pleasure industries at all, exploiting our apparently limitless inability to be pleased, can only mean that our economy is divorced from pleasure and that pleasure is gone from our workplaces and our dwelling places. Our workplaces are more and more exclusively given over to production, and our dwelling places to consumption." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/Marshall McLuhan, we discover neither a planet Earth of the spaceship model nor an instantaneous uni.txt b/reading/Marshall McLuhan, we discover neither a planet Earth of the spaceship model nor an instantaneous uni.txt
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+"Marshall McLuhan, we discover neither a planet Earth of the spaceship model nor an instantaneous universe of communications linking a global village, but the disappearance of time itself as a limiting factor of our expe­ rience. In a world in which communications are nearly instantaneous and simultaneous experiences are possible, it must be spaces and places that dis­ tinguish us from one another, not time nor history." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/No matter how well educated an Indian may become, he or she always suspects that Western culture is .txt b/reading/No matter how well educated an Indian may become, he or she always suspects that Western culture is .txt
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+"No matter how well educated an Indian may become, he or she always suspects that Western culture is not an adequate representation of reality." P2 (Vine Deloria – The Metaphysics of Modern Existence)
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diff --git a/reading/Once the various Christian doctrines are taken from their original rime dimension and used to torm a.txt b/reading/Once the various Christian doctrines are taken from their original rime dimension and used to torm a.txt
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+"Once the various Christian doctrines are taken from their original rime dimension and used to torm a theory of human personality coupled with the identification of sins in anticipation of the final judgment that is apparently still to come, they can be said to form the basic posture of Western peoples toward this world, the world to come, and the world's institutions." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/Our daily life in the front country, back in “civilization,” is filled with conveniences that, while.txt b/reading/Our daily life in the front country, back in “civilization,” is filled with conveniences that, while.txt
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+"Our daily life in the front country, back in “civilization,” is filled with conveniences that, while enjoyable, distance us from the changing nature of the world around us. This affords us a certain degree of comfort, time savings, and other advantages but comes at a severe cost, one of which is losing a certain degree of personal self-reliance and the skills needed to be highly self-reliant. These include acute environmental awareness and response. In civilization much of those and other skills simply aren’t needed. You don’t need to watch the weather because the weather is totally irrelevant to the question of where you’re going to sleep for the night or how you’re going to prepare dinner. Expand that irrelevance to many spheres of your life and you can see how rapidly and profusely life in the comforts of “civilization” dumbs down our capacities simply by removing the need for many of them. What you practice you become good at; what you don’t you gradually lose competency in." P14 (Falk, Ben – The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach)
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diff --git a/reading/Our expectations in life are that events will occur in a cause-and-effect universe in which it is re.txt b/reading/Our expectations in life are that events will occur in a cause-and-effect universe in which it is re.txt
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+"Our expectations in life are that events will occur in a cause-and-effect universe in which it is relatively simple to trace the beginnings and end of any natural phenomenon. When we experi­ ence an event or feeling out of the ordinary, we tend to dismiss it as unreal, a fantasy that somehow broke into our consciousness.We can­ not explain what we have experienced because we have only this narrow, materialistic framework in which to evaluate what has hap­ pened. In a practical sense, the Newtonian billiard balls that clang together creating events and guaranteeing uniformity are sufficient for us. But what if we learned to have other expectations? Suppose we were of such a nature that we could discern the life force in everything and were thus assured that as we made our way through life, unusual things could happen. What if these events gave testimony that the physical world we know was but a manifestation of a larger cosmos that was beyond our powers to discern and was also part of our lives. We would then begin to attribute the cause of some unusual events as the intervention or intersection of unseen yet powerful forces that played a role in our experience, even if we could not see them. In theory, but not in daily practice, we do live in such a world." (Vine Deloria Jr. – The World We Used to Live In Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men Fulcrum Publishing (2006))
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diff --git a/reading/Religious freedom has existed as a matter of course in America only when religion has been conceived.txt b/reading/Religious freedom has existed as a matter of course in America only when religion has been conceived.txt
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+"Religious freedom has existed as a matter of course in America only when religion has been conceived as a set of objective beliefs. This condition is actually not freedom at all because it would be exceedingly difficult to read minds and determine what ideas were being entertained at the time. So far in American history religious freedom has not involved the consecration and setting aside oflands for religious purposes or allowing sincere but highly divergent behavior by individuals and groups." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/Sacred places are the foundation of all other beliefs and practices because they represent the prese.txt b/reading/Sacred places are the foundation of all other beliefs and practices because they represent the prese.txt
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+"Sacred places are the foundation of all other beliefs and practices because they represent the presence of the sacred in our lives. They prop­ erly inform us that we are not larger than nature and that we have responsibilities to the rest of the natural world that transcend our own per­ sonal desires and wishes. This lesson must be learned by each generation; unfortunately the technology of industrial society always leads us in the other direction." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/Social scientists simply proj ect common beliefs of Westerners onto the relics of non-Western people.txt b/reading/Social scientists simply proj ect common beliefs of Westerners onto the relics of non-Western people.txt
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+"Social scientists simply proj ect common beliefs of Westerners onto the relics of non-Western peoples, interpreting many structures and artifacts as if they represented an obsessive concern with the next life. Legends and traditions are also twisted to fit into the pattern of \A/estern thinking as if the quest for immortality were universal." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/Some say that the earth talks to them. They get their ceremony from that. Some say the wind has life.txt b/reading/Some say that the earth talks to them. They get their ceremony from that. Some say the wind has life.txt
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+"Some say that the earth talks to them. They get their ceremony from that. Some say the wind has life. Some say the mountains, like the San Andreas, have life."
diff --git a/reading/Such work requires not only correct principles, skill, and industry, but a knowledge of local partic.txt b/reading/Such work requires not only correct principles, skill, and industry, but a knowledge of local partic.txt
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+"Such work requires not only correct principles, skill, and industry, but a knowledge of local particulars and many years; it involves slow, small adjustments in response to questions asked by a particular place. And this is true in general of the patterns and structures of a proper human use of a beloved country, as examination of the traditional landscapes of the Old World will readily show: they were made by use as much as by skill." P121 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/The direction of the energies of life must be removed from the domain of the desires to that of the .txt b/reading/The direction of the energies of life must be removed from the domain of the desires to that of the .txt
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+"The direction of the energies of life must be removed from the domain of the desires to that of the will. Until this is done there can be no steady progression in any direction, for the desires are called forth from without, not directed from within, and vary with the external stimulus." (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate) p
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diff --git a/reading/The economies of our communities and households are wrong. The answers to the human problems of ecol (2).txt b/reading/The economies of our communities and households are wrong. The answers to the human problems of ecol (2).txt
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+"The economies of our communities and households are wrong. The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and in character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/The economies of our communities and households are wrong. The answers to the human problems of ecol.txt b/reading/The economies of our communities and households are wrong. The answers to the human problems of ecol.txt
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+"The economies of our communities and households are wrong. The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and in character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers." P 198 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/The food industrialists have by now persuaded millions of consumers to prefer food that is already p.txt b/reading/The food industrialists have by now persuaded millions of consumers to prefer food that is already p.txt
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+"The food industrialists have by now persuaded millions of consumers to prefer food that is already prepared. They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet offer to insert it, prechewed, into your mouth is only because they have found no profitable way to do so." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/The hope of camping out that comes over one in early spring, the laying of plans and arranging of de.txt b/reading/The hope of camping out that comes over one in early spring, the laying of plans and arranging of de.txt
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+"The hope of camping out that comes over one in early spring, the laying of plans and arranging of details, is, I sometimes think, even more enjoyable than reality itself." (John Mead Gould – How to Camp Out)
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diff --git a/reading/The imminent and expected destruction of the life cycle of world ecology can be prevented by a radi­.txt b/reading/The imminent and expected destruction of the life cycle of world ecology can be prevented by a radi­.txt
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+"The imminent and expected destruction of the life cycle of world ecology can be prevented by a radi­ cal shift in outlook from our present naive conception of this world as a testing ground of abstract morality to a more mature view of the universe as a comprehensive matrix of life forms. Making this shift in viewpoint is essentially religious, not economic or political." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/The importance of evolution in our daily lives cannot be underestimated. The concept of the survival.txt b/reading/The importance of evolution in our daily lives cannot be underestimated. The concept of the survival.txt
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+The importance of evolution in our daily lives cannot be underestimated. The concept of the survival of the fittest, which had the most practical appeal to common people, has been applied indiscriminately in a great many nonbiological areas of human life. As a slogan, it fit perfectly with the religious maxim that “God helps those that help themselves” and was used to justify individual adventures in politics and commerce almost from the beginning of the controversy over evolution. We speak about the self-made man and attribute individual financial and social success to the inexorable workings of the principle of evolutionary change. The estimates we make of our accomplishments are couched in terms of “progress,” and we judge the vitality of our societies not on the number of wise and compassionate people we produce, but on our gross national product and a constantly expanding economy." (Vine Deloria – The Metaphysics of Modern Existence)p73
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diff --git a/reading/The lands wait for those who can discern their rhythms. The peculiar genius of each continent-each r.txt b/reading/The lands wait for those who can discern their rhythms. The peculiar genius of each continent-each r.txt
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+"The lands wait for those who can discern their rhythms. The peculiar genius of each continent-each river valley, the rugged illoimtains, the placid lakes-all call for relief from the constant burden uf exploitation." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/The moon may be taken to represent the personality, waxing and waning through innumerable incamatory.txt b/reading/The moon may be taken to represent the personality, waxing and waning through innumerable incamatory.txt
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+"The moon may be taken to represent the personality, waxing and waning through innumerable incamatory phases of reflection of the sun's light or its deflection by the earth's shadow; whereas the Higher Self, the immortal Spirit in man, is rightly symbolised by the sun, which shines perpetually in the heavens, whether we see it or not.• These glyphs will repay meditation." (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate)35
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diff --git a/reading/The present state of affairs cannot conceivably be justified. It cannot be justified at least religi.txt b/reading/The present state of affairs cannot conceivably be justified. It cannot be justified at least religi.txt
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+"The present state of affairs cannot conceivably be justified. It cannot be justified at least religiously, and one must conclude that in Christianity humankind has at best been deluded. While the religion appeared to give comfort and solace to people in all ages, its resultant impact on the world as a whole has been anything but comforting. It has been used by its fol­ lowers to justifY their most dastardly deeds, and it has focused our concern on the life hereafter so that we have refused to believe what our experi­ ences tell us is true. We must now undertake to find a more profound explanation of ourselves and the planet on which we live." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/The problem of relat­ ing to a place's spirit or alternatively bringing a spiritual reality to a par.txt b/reading/The problem of relat­ ing to a place's spirit or alternatively bringing a spiritual reality to a par.txt
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+"The problem of relat­ ing to a place's spirit or alternatively bringing a spiritual reality to a particular place is yet to be understood in the sphere of religious thought. That a fundamental element of religion is an intimate relationship with the land on which the religion is practiced should be a major premise of future theological concern. " (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/The purpose of education with us, like the purpose of society with us, has been, and is, to get away.txt b/reading/The purpose of education with us, like the purpose of society with us, has been, and is, to get away.txt
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+"The purpose of education with us, like the purpose of society with us, has been, and is, to get away from the small farm-indeed, from the small everything. The purpose of education has been to prepare people to "take their places" in an industrial society, the assumption being that all small economic units are obsolete. And the superstition of education assumes that this "place in society" is "up." "Up" is the direction from small to big. Education is the way up. The popular aim of education is to put everybody "on top." Well, I think I hardly need to document the consequent pushing and trampling and kicking in the face. My point is that if the reader joins Nate Shaw in wishing that he might have been educated, he cannot safely assume that he is wishing only for an improved Nate Shaw; he may be wishing for a different kind of human creature altogether." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/The secret of a strong will, therefore, is to concentrate it upon a single object; this can only be .txt b/reading/The secret of a strong will, therefore, is to concentrate it upon a single object; this can only be .txt
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+The secret of a strong will, therefore, is to concentrate it upon a single object; this can only be achieved by eliminating all competing objects which divide the attention of the will and so fritter away its energies. This is one reason that sacrifice is said to be the first step in the Mysteries, for it is only by sacrificing ruthlessly all irrelevant interests. that the single-pointed and potent will is obtained. It may" (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate)p102
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diff --git a/reading/There are also no national, state, or county problems, and no national, state, or county solutions. .txt b/reading/There are also no national, state, or county problems, and no national, state, or county solutions. .txt
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+"There are also no national, state, or county problems, and no national, state, or county solutions. That will-o' -the-wisp, the large-scale solution to the large-scale problem, which is so dear to governments, universities, and corporations, serves mostly to distract people from the small, private problems that they may, in fact, have the power to solve." P198  (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/There is also the Territory of historical self-right~ousness if we had lived south of the Ohio in 18.txt b/reading/There is also the Territory of historical self-right~ousness if we had lived south of the Ohio in 18.txt
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+"There is also the Territory of historical self-right~ousness: if we had lived south of the Ohio in 1830, we would not have owned slaves; if we had lived on the frontier, we would have killed no Indians, violated no treaties, stolen no land. The probability is overwhelming that if we had belonged to the generations we deplore, we too would have behaved deplorably. The probability is overwhelming that we belong to a generation that will be found by its successors to have behaved deplorably." P 81 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/There is, then, a politics of food that, like any politics, involves our freedom. We still (sometime.txt b/reading/There is, then, a politics of food that, like any politics, involves our freedom. We still (sometime.txt
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+"There is, then, a politics of food that, like any politics, involves our freedom. We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else. The condition of the passive consumer of food is not a democratic condition. One reason to eat responsibly is to live free." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/Today the land is dotted with towns, cities, suburbs, and the like. Yet very few of these political .txt b/reading/Today the land is dotted with towns, cities, suburbs, and the like. Yet very few of these political .txt
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+"Today the land is dotted with towns, cities, suburbs, and the like. Yet very few of these political subdivisions are in fact communities. They are rather transitory locations for the temporary existence of wage earners." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/We have been told that primitive peoples discovered the smelting process while baking bread. They ha.txt b/reading/We have been told that primitive peoples discovered the smelting process while baking bread. They ha.txt
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+"We have been told that primitive peoples discovered the smelting process while baking bread. They happened to include some copper ore in their ovens and, when they completed their bakery chores for the day, dis­ covered that they had smelted ores to produce copper or iron while making their primitive pastries. But an oven has to be in the neighborhood of 1 ,500'C in order to break down ore. There would be no reason to heat an oven that hot in order to bake bread.4" (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/We have bought unconditionally the economists' line that competition and innovation would solve all .txt b/reading/We have bought unconditionally the economists' line that competition and innovation would solve all .txt
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+"We have bought unconditionally the economists' line that competition and innovation would solve all problems, and that we would finally accomplis!-i a technological end-run around biological reality and the human condition." P 200 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/We never experience things in complete isolation, which would be expected if absolute space and time.txt b/reading/We never experience things in complete isolation, which would be expected if absolute space and time.txt
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+"We never experience things in complete isolation, which would be expected if absolute space and time were really operative in the world. Rather, we experience a conglomerate of things, and out of these things we remember with some degree of clarity those that have impressed themselves upon our emotions and personality. The vast majority of our experiences consist of infinitely complex situations that combine all elements of our environment. Common people, poets, and painters have always understood this aspect of human experience, but only recently have scientists and philosophers rediscovered it and begun to approach more closely the world in which we live." (Vine Deloria – The Metaphysics of Modern Existence)
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diff --git a/reading/We should thus see feeling and reason in polarity, and the kinetic will as resulting from their unio.txt b/reading/We should thus see feeling and reason in polarity, and the kinetic will as resulting from their unio.txt
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+"We should thus see feeling and reason in polarity, and the kinetic will as resulting from their union. But this is not enough. According to Qabalistic principle, a trinity thus formed must be resumed in a fourth principle upon another plane before it can become functional. If the plane under consideration is a lower plane, they will be resumed in a physical body which gives them expression upon the plane of matter through instinct; but if the plane under consideration is a higher plane, they will be resumed in that little-understood faculty, the imagination. It is from this synthesis upon a higher plane, and from this alone, that occult power issues forth." (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate)p100
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+"What happened in the 1960s and 1 970s is that, in all probability, the logic of Western culture and the meaning of the Christian worldview that supported the institutions of Western culture were outrun by the events of the time. The brotherhood of man may be a noble ideal, but can it be achieved in any society that is not homogenous? Probably not, we discov­ ered. At a certain point in the struggle for realization, it became apparent that goals of the Civil Rights movement could not be achieved because people did not subscribe to them and because the goals were, after all, abstract projections of an ideal world, not descriptions of a real world." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/When Jesus failed to return within the lifetime of those who had been his closest associates, the re.txt b/reading/When Jesus failed to return within the lifetime of those who had been his closest associates, the re.txt
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+"When Jesus failed to return within the lifetime of those who had been his closest associates, the relIgiOn should have tolded. But as the original group grew smaller and the religion spread to Asia Minor, the initial prediction was continually modified so that while the basic idea had been an immediate conclusion to history through divine intervention, its immediacy gradually became symbolic, not historic." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world .txt b/reading/Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world .txt
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+"Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world?" (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/You cannot lose your land and remain free; if you keep your land, you cannot be enslaved. (Wendell B.txt b/reading/You cannot lose your land and remain free; if you keep your land, you cannot be enslaved. (Wendell B.txt
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+"You cannot lose your land and remain free; if you keep your land, you cannot be enslaved." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/You never know what is enough unless you know what 0is more than enough. (Wendell Berry – What Are P.txt b/reading/You never know what is enough unless you know what 0is more than enough. (Wendell Berry – What Are P.txt
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+""You never know what is enough unless you know what 0is more than enough."" (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/creature is not a creator, and cannot be. There is only one Creation, and we are its members. To be .txt b/reading/creature is not a creator, and cannot be. There is only one Creation, and we are its members. To be .txt
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+"creature is not a creator, and cannot be. There is only one Creation, and we are its members. To be creative is only to have health: to keep oneself fully alive in the Creation, to keep the Creation fully alive in oneself, to see the Creation anew, to welcome one's part in it anew." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/dictating to the world the conditions by which the world must exist. (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmo.txt b/reading/dictating to the world the conditions by which the world must exist. (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmo.txt
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+"dictating to the world the conditions by which the world must exist." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/my handwritten pages have a homemade, handmade look to them that both pleases me in itself and sugge.txt b/reading/my handwritten pages have a homemade, handmade look to them that both pleases me in itself and sugge.txt
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+"my handwritten pages have a homemade, handmade look to them that both pleases me in itself and suggests the possibility of ready correction. It looks hospitable to improvement. As the longhand is transformed into typescript and then into galley proofs and the printed page, it seems increasingly to resist improvement." P192 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/notion that there must be one single way, truth, and light for everyone is among the most destructiv.txt b/reading/notion that there must be one single way, truth, and light for everyone is among the most destructiv.txt
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+The notion that there must be one single way, truth, and light for everyone is among the most destructive mental habits of our time. Fortunately it’s balanced in the minds of many with the alternative idea of liberty — which is ultimately the recognition that different people have different needs, wants, and talents, and ought to be able to follow those as they wish so long as doing so doesn't interefere with their neighbors’ doing the same.
+
+https://www.ecosophia.net/a-magic-republic/#comment-45248
diff --git a/reading/or if we recognize the logical conclusions of the thinking of both Buckminster Fuller and (Vine Delo.txt b/reading/or if we recognize the logical conclusions of the thinking of both Buckminster Fuller and (Vine Delo.txt
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+"or if we recognize the logical conclusions of the thinking of both Buckminster Fuller and" (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/order to make the home a Temple of Initiation for the soul, its duties must be dominated by two idea.txt b/reading/order to make the home a Temple of Initiation for the soul, its duties must be dominated by two idea.txt
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+"order to make the home a Temple of Initiation for the soul, its duties must be dominated by two ideals-love and beauty. Its services must be rendered with sympathy and joy, and we must make its humblest details beautiful. Even in the barest room there is a beauty of perfect cleanliness and order. If we would merely eliminate the superfluous from our homes and keep what remains in perfect order we should have achieved true beauty, as many a bare convent refectory can show." (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate)p40
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+"order to make the home a Temple of Initiation for the soul, its duties must be dominated by two ideals-love and beauty. Its services must be rendered with sympathy and joy, and we must make its humblest details beautiful. Even in the barest room there is a beauty of perfect cleanliness and order. If we would merely eliminate the superfluous from our homes and keep what remains in perfect order we should have achieved true beauty, as many a bare convent refectory can show." (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate)p47th
diff --git a/reading/seek beyond the skyline, where the strange roads go down. (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of a.txt b/reading/seek beyond the skyline, where the strange roads go down. (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of a.txt
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+""seek beyond the skyline, where the strange roads go down."" (Dion Fortune – The Training and Work of an Initiate) p27
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diff --git a/reading/stand the nature of religion as it occurs in specific places. There is a reason why shrines exist ov.txt b/reading/stand the nature of religion as it occurs in specific places. There is a reason why shrines exist ov.txt
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+"stand the nature of religion as it occurs in specific places. There is a reason why shrines exist over and above the piety of the uneducated religious per­ son who has visions while tending sheep. Mount Sinai, for example, has been a holy mountain for a considerable length of time, thus indicating that it has a religious existence over and above any temporary belief held by particular people. If this concept is true, then economics cannot and should not be the sole determinant ofland use. Unless the sacred places are discovered and protected and used as religious places, there is no possibility of a nation ever coming to grips with the land itself. Without this basic relationship, national psychic stability is impossible." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/the possibility of change depends on the existence of people who have the power to change. P 168 (We.txt b/reading/the possibility of change depends on the existence of people who have the power to change. P 168 (We.txt
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+"the possibility of change depends on the existence of people who have the power to change." P 168 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/these religions appear to be simply control measures for manipulating large populations and not a re.txt b/reading/these religions appear to be simply control measures for manipulating large populations and not a re.txt
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+"these religions appear to be simply control measures for manipulating large populations and not a realistic appraisal of cosmic reality." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/we are going to have to deal with a law that reads about like this as the quality of use increases, .txt b/reading/we are going to have to deal with a law that reads about like this as the quality of use increases, .txt
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+"we are going to have to deal with a law that reads about like this: as the quality of use increases, the scale of use (that is, the size of operations) will decline, the tools will become simpler, and the methods and the skills will become more complex." P114 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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diff --git a/reading/we cannot control history and that what appears inevitable is only a projection of our wishes, not a.txt b/reading/we cannot control history and that what appears inevitable is only a projection of our wishes, not a.txt
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+"we cannot control history and that what appears inevitable is only a projection of our wishes, not a future event." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/we think it ordinary to spend twelve or sixteen or twenty years of a person's life and many thousand.txt b/reading/we think it ordinary to spend twelve or sixteen or twenty years of a person's life and many thousand.txt
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+"we think it ordinary to spend twelve or sixteen or twenty years of a person's life and many thousands of public dollars on "education"-andnot a dime or a thought on character. Of course, it is preposterous to suppose that character could be cultivated by any sort of public program. Persons of character are not public products. They are made by local cultures, local responsibilities. That we have so few such persons does not suggest that we ought to start character workshops in the schools. It does suggest that "up" may be the wrong direction." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
diff --git a/reading/world history as presently conceived in the Christian nations is the story of the West's conquest of.txt b/reading/world history as presently conceived in the Christian nations is the story of the West's conquest of.txt
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+"world history as presently conceived in the Christian nations is the story of the West's conquest of the remainder of the world and the subsequent rise to technological sophistication. Because we cannot understand humankind from a more profound point of view, we have in recent years fallen into a number of easily avoid­ able difficulties." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))
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diff --git a/reading/would like my country to be seen and known with an attentiveness that is schooled and skilled. I wou.txt b/reading/would like my country to be seen and known with an attentiveness that is schooled and skilled. I wou.txt
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+"would like my country to be seen and known with an attentiveness that is schooled and skilled. I would like it to be loved with a minutely particular affection and loyalty. I would like the work in it to be practical and loving and respectful and forbearing. In order for these things to happen, the sciences and the humanities are going to have to come together again in the presence of the practical problems of individual places, and of local knowledge and local love in individual people-people able to see, know, think, feel, and act coherently and well without the modern instinct of deference to the "outside expert."" P118 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))
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