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Agreed. It's a conversation stopper for me. Sorry. When I hear that term I have to remind myself that people of color automatically get a lot of racist crap, as a matter of course.…

The Commanding Self by Idries Shah It is a curious choice, I admit, but it takes you out of the mundane reality into fresh view of life. Expanding your view is a great cure for dep…

Stephen LaBerge made this same discovery in 1987 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_LaBerge They did not do their research.

I read it again, recently, it was oddly comforting during a time like this.

And I saw that this, too, was meaningless.

It is best just to read the first book. It is complete in itself. And then there is Whipping Star, which is best skimmed through so that you can get to The Dosadi Experiment. In fa…

I concur with Ancillary Justice. I love the way that you have to work out what is happening through successive detail. Plenty of surprises. A genderless society is very hard to get…

The Mulla Nasrudin books by Idries Shah. These tales, some of them very old, represent patterns that repeat again and again, in different guises in life. As you absorb them you sta…