Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.
--Black Elk
from our last real world PC

To get you in the mood for our Corner this Sunday evening:
One thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth which finds place in every soul that is not stupefied by religious and scientific superstitions — the truth that for our life one law is valid — the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every
individual as well as to all mankind. Free your minds from those overgrown, mountainous imbecilities which hinder your recognition of it, and at once the truth will emerge from amid the pseudo-religious nonsense that has been smothering it: the indubitable, eternal truth
inherent in man, which is one and the same in all the great religions of the world. It will in due time emerge and make its way to general recognition, and the nonsense that has obscured it will disappear of itself, and with it will go the evil from which humanity now suffers.
--Leo Tolstoy

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

Could I ask when and where the Philosophy Corner takes place?

Thanks

The next PC will be at 7.30pm on Sunday the 30th in the restaurant section of Bluesky. All are welcome to attend. Bring your thoughts, curly questions, and opinions, and if you wish you can even throw in some facts. It is a mixture of serious discussion and a few laughs.

The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.
--Lewis Mumford
Philosophy Corner, the real world one, will be on again this Sunday.