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How something appears is always a matter of perspective…
Category Archives: ART
Paintings, photography, aesthetic objects, beautiful communication, and anything I consider to be art, artful, artistic, artsy or whatever.
Art is subjective. It is a quality of communication can be contributed to by the viewer through empathy or agreement with its creator.
ENRA pleiades
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THE OTHER SIDE
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“The Oriental teacher never fails to wonder at the many evidences of the result of mere theory and dogmatic teaching on the part of the majority of the teachers and preachers of the Western world. These so‑called teachers are like the “blind leading the blind,” for they have no means of verifying their statements, and merely pass on what they have blindly received from others, who, in turn, have received their own instruction in the same way. In the Orient, on the contrary, one meets with so many persons of developed higher psychic and spiritual sense, to whom the phenomena of “the other side” is as familiar as is the phenomena of “this side,” that the “other side” seems as real and actual as does the ordinary environment of earth‑life.”
But, from the same reasons, the developed Oriental occultist finds himself confronted with a most perplexing, not to say discouraging task when he attempts to convey his knowledge on this subject to Western students. The Western mind instinctively refuses to accept truth in the manner of the mind of the Oriental student. Not having realized by actual experience certain fundamental psychic and spiritual facts, which serve as a basis for the detailed teaching, the Western mind naturally demands “actual proof” of these basic facts before being willing to proceed further. Inasmuch as these facts must first be experienced to be known, no amount of argument ever serves to bring that conviction of truth which should serve as the fundamental basis for the detailed teaching. Consequently by the Western student, the general basic statements of the teacher are accepted either purely on faith, or else regarded as mere guesses or speculation on the part of the teacher. And, as there are thousands of such guesses and speculative theories advanced in the Western world, the student may well be excused from refusing to accept any of them as truth, for, as he often argues, “one guess is as good as another.”
~ Atkinson, William Walker, THE LIFE BEYOND DEATH ~
FORBIDDEN FRUIT
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100 (OR SO) BOOKS I HEARD IN 2016
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100 (OR SO) BOOKS I HEARD IN 2016
I have written 8 books personally. (See my author profile (https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/pan) I also edited and published the international best selling book Alien Interview. (Get this audiobook FREE)
As a writer I am a reader. I usually read (or re-read) at least 100 books a year. I am 70 years old now and have developed severe arthritis is my neck which prevents me from reading printed books. So, I download and listen to audiobooks from AUDIBLE.COM. I have discovered the experience of audiobooks to be much more satisfying than reading printed books. What can be better than a well written story read to you by a professional voice talent?! Anyway, I want to share with you a list of audobooks I listened to during 2016. As you can see from the list my preferences lean heavily toward Fantasy, Science Fiction, Metaphysics and History. Each book is a universe created by the “author gods” of Earth: universes of infinite imagination and fascination.
THE HARRY POTTER SERIES (7 books) by J.K Rowling
DUNE (6 book series by Frank Herbert)
ASHELY BELL by Dean Koontz
NEVERWHERE by Neil Gaiman (second reading)
THE REPUBLIC OF PIRATES: BEING THE TRUE AND SURPRISING STORY OF THE CARIBBEAN PIRATES by Colin Woodard 
BAG OF BONES by Stephen King
THE IMPROBABLE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by John Joseph Adams (editor) , Robert J. Sawyer , Christopher Roden , Michael Moorcock , Anne Perry , Neil Gaiman , Anthony Burgess , Laurie R. King
THE DIAMOND AGE by Neal Stephenson
GHENHIS KHAN AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD By Jack Weatherford
THE RED RISING TRILOGY by Pierce Brown
THE DRUID CHRONICLES (8 books) by Kevin Hearne
HOW TO SAFELY LIVE IN A SCIENCE FICTIONAL UNIVERSE by Charles Yu
THE DRESDEN FILES (15 books) by Jim Butcher
ALEX VERUS SERIES by Benedict Jacka (7 books)
THE SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF HOPE by Claire North
THE EVERYTHING BOX by Richard Kadrey
MAGIC 2.0 (3 book series) by Scott Meyer
THE AERONAUT’S WINDLASS: THE CINDER SPIRES, BOOK 1 by Jim Butcher
THE MANY SELVES OF KATHERINE NORTH by Emma Geen
THE CHRONICLES OF ST. MARY’S (book 1 and 2) by Jody Taylor
READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline
TESSER, A DRAGON AMONG US by Chris Philbrook
JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL by Susanna Clarke
THE DIRTY STREETS OF HEAVEN: BOBBY DOLLAR by Tad Williams 
SLEEPING LATE ON JUDGEMENT DAY: Bobby Dollar BY Tad Williams
THE HIKE by Drew Magary
WHERE THE HELL IS TELSA: A NOVEL by Rob Dircks
AGENT TO THE STARS by John Scalzi
THE ANDROIDS DREAM by John Scalzi
ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert M. Pirsig
ALL OF THE BOOKS OF DOUGLAS ADAMS (re-read for the 4th or 5th time) 
THE GODMAKERS by Frank Herbert
AWAKEN ONLINE by Travis Bagwell
SURVIVAL QUEST: WAY OF THE SHAMAN SERIES (1 and 2) by Vasily Mahanenko
HEARTSTRIKERS (3 book series) by Rachel Aaron
WIZARD DEFIANT: INTERGALACTIC WIZARD SCOUT CHRONICLES by Rodney Hartman
THE LEGEND OF ELI MONPRESS (5 book series) by Rachel Aaron 
WAKE OF VULTURES: THE SHADOW BOOK 1, by Lila Bowen
THE SHEPARD’S CROWN by Terry Pratchett
WATCHERS by Dean Koontz
SOLARIS by Stanislaw Lem
THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
WE ARE LEGION (WE ARE BOB) BOBIVERSE BOOKS 1 AND 2 by Dennis E. Taylor
BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON by Dean Koontz
COLUMBUS DAY: EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (book 1) by Craig Alanson