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Re: Children's Reading List [message #53217 is a reply to message #53193]

Thu, 29 March 2007 07:57

David Fanning
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Karsten Rodenacker writes:

> That was the time of the books of Castaneda! Fairy tale
> books today?

This is an interesting way of looking at those books, which
has a great deal of merit, I think. I first read those
books as a young man, and they were constantly on my
mind as I rode my bicycle from Phoenix to Fort Collins,
having many an adventure along the way. I'm sure I spoke
to every Raven that crossed my path on that trip!

But several years ago now I pulled all the books off my
shelf and read them again, start to finish, and they had
a completely different effect, even more powerful. (This
was in a stage of my life when I was transfixed with ideas
of altered states of reality and shamanism. I thought I was
going crazy because I couldn't stay out of the New Age
section of the bookstore!) They certainly had the *effect*
of Fairy Tales, explaining your life experiences, leading
you on the dangerous journey of self-exploration, explaining
the terrain in metaphorical terms.

Humm. I may have to read them again... That's the wonderful
thing about getting old. You can go back to old, forgotten
books and find them wonderfully fresh and insightful. :-)

Cheers,

David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: Children's Reading List By: btt on Fri, 30 March 2007 06:31
		Re: Children's Reading List By: David Fanning on Thu, 29 March 2007 07:57
		Re: Children's Reading List By: Peter Clinch on Thu, 29 March 2007 06:52
		Re: Children's Reading List By: David Fanning on Thu, 29 March 2007 07:44
		Re: Children's Reading List By: James Kuyper on Thu, 29 March 2007 05:45
		Re: Children's Reading List By: Karsten Rodenacker on Thu, 29 March 2007 01:16
		Re: Children's Reading List By: David Fanning on Wed, 28 March 2007 13:50
		Re: Children's Reading List By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 28 March 2007 12:21

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