October 2017 Book Club

   October 11, 2017
   John Michael Greer
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   This week's post is the fourth of a monthly series of open-discussion posts
   focusing  on books  I've  written. Our  theme for  the  present is  Mystery
   Teachings from the Living Earth, and  this week we're discussing "The Third
   Law: The Law of Balance" (pp. 35-43). I'd like to ask readers to keep their
   questions and comments  focused on that chapter and the  ideas it contains;
   we'll have another Ask  Me Anything post later this month,  and of course a
   substantive monthly post or two in due time.

   In place of an outline, here's the Third Law, as it appears in the book:

   Everything that exists can continue to  exist only by being in balance with
   itself, with other things, and with the whole system of which it is a part.
   That balance  is not  found by  going to one  or the  other extreme,  or by
   remaining  fixed  at a  static  point;  it  is created  by  self-correcting
   movements to either side of a midpoint.

   The rest of this section of the book expands on the concept this definition
   sketches  out. Questions?  Comments?  Discussions? Have  at it-subject,  of
   course, to the usual rules.

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   In other news,  I'm delighted to announce that another  translation of mine
   is available for preorder  and will be shipping in four  months. Many of my
   readers know that I've long been interested  in the Art of Memory, a system
   of  mind  training developed  in  the  ancient  world  and refined  in  the
   Renaissance, which  basically allows  you to upgrade  your own  memory, and
   store and recall information much  more effectively than the untrained mind
   can do. Giordano Bruno, the greatest master of the art of memory, published
   a guidebook to his  version of the art in 1582  titled De Umbris Idearum-in
   English, that works out to On the  Shadows of the Ideas. I've translated it
   from Latin,  and added a  foreword, extensive notes,  and a guide  to using
   Bruno's  methods, and  it  will be  released in  January  in two  editions.
   Details? Here's the  link to the over-the-top amazing edition  with all the
   trimmings, and here's the link to the merely gorgeous edition.

   Fans of my quirky epic-fantasy-with-tentacles, The Weird of Hali, will also
   be pleased to know  that the third volume, The Weird  of Hali: Chorazin, is
   slithering its  squamous, rugose way into  print as well, and  is scheduled
   for a late winter release. I'll post the details when I have them.