Stryder

A mystic of divine humanism

Revisado: 01-24-23

I was surprised by how little I knew of this renowned visionary artist. And how glad I am to become more informed. The author helped me grasp Blake’s prismatic ecstasies, contextualizing them in history and grounding them between science and philosophy.
An integral part of my experience was referring to the search engines and finding digital reproductions of specific examples of Blake’s work, while the author was referring to them.
It appears that the life of this artist, who was penniless at his passing, equals those of the masters of any age, before or after.

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We're desensitized to pleasure

Revisado: 03-28-22

This an important work for anyone desensitized to natural pleasure, or, disenchanted with artificial ones. I found listening to it not only a pleasure but a joy. Jia Gottlieb’s aah… The Pleasure Book is a potent draft of ageless wisdom and up to date knowledge for optimizing our pleasure potential at all levels.

This book makes an appeal for uncoupling the natural urges from mediating influences of guilt and shame and unmasks countless ways both very old and new influences compete to hijack these natural instincts and inclinations for the purpose of manipulation and control. It shines light on the chemistry and the machinery under our own skin. It frames the quest for pleasure as an endowment that has beneficially guided our physical and spiritual evolution since the beginning.

The way it’s chapters are aligned helped me highlight the optimum balance point, along a continuum between pleasure and its opposing states in my own present day life and showed me how to increase the pleasure in my work, play, relationships and cosmic connection. As a career physician, lifetime athlete and meditator, the author trains our thought processes on his subject’s multi-facets with a comprehensive digest of knowledge and practice, for stabilizing one’s body, mind and spirit in the sweet spot of authentic pleasure.

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