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This book offers an interesting view into the world of spirituality from a major religion. The interest in the Kabbalah has undoubtably arisen from the interest shown by many Hollywood stars, particularily Madonna. Traditionally, the Kabbalah is reserved for rabbis and people with a deep understanding of the religion, since it is very complex and requires a real religious understanding. Still, this being said, this book offers thoughtful, although not complete and some times unclear ideas. It does make a very good read for people who are open to new ideas and have a solid understanding of the Jewish faith.

You want real Kabbalah! You got it in this book!

The key to this book's value is that it is a reference book of source material meant to live in the context of a Golden Dawn collection. It is packed with original material not to be found elsewhere in print, before or yet again as of the date of this review. While this book will be of interest to everyone who studies Kabbalah, it will be of especial interest to Golden Dawn practitioners and scholars who wish to deepen their knowledge of this particular "GD" approach to Kabbalah. Having said that, it is not a Primer but assumes a basic knowledge of the GD kabbalistic structure and metaphors available elsewhere, from which basis it is a deeper discussion and an enhancement -- even, in some cases, an intriguing challenge to what is elsewhere printed.

It will therefore be invaluable to anyone who has already picked up the basics of the Golden Dawn approach to Kabbalah who wants deeper information on a particular point, at which time they can study the original documents inside, which are minimally colored by commentary.

A technical example is the Chapter on the ShemHaMephorash, or the name in extension. Zalewski tells where the original Philosophus lecture comes from, and provides an interesting diagram from that original Paper that stands in contrast to the Leo centered ordering of the angels of the Name provided by Mathers, a scheme which is central to the GD understanding of the Tarot pip cards. This may be significant or not to different readers, but is invaluable food for thought to anyone seriously working out for themselves the true attributions of the Name in Extension to the Zodiac and the Tarot.

I hope this review has been helpful to those who encounter it -- As you can probably tell, I am not a professional reviewer but just an interested Golden Dawn practicer whose own copy of this book is Well Thumbed! If you are anything like me, you NEED this book!

I'll admit right now that this is the first (and probably last) of Derrida's books that I've read cover to cover. Therefore I'm sure all those converted post-modernists will lambast me for not fully grasping the meaning of this book since I can't put it in the context of Derrida's other works.

Nonetheless there is some interesting stuff here for the newcomer, especially anyone interested in what it means to have a language as 'one's own' or to have a 'mother tongue.' Derrida asks these questions in reference to his experiences as a French-speaking Algerian Jew and as a participant at a conference in French-speaking Louisiana (where this work was first presented). The whole book is about Derrida's problems with identity and language, and he is mildly interesting in drawing out some paradoxes like 'we only ever speak one language' and 'we never speak only one language.' He documents his personal problems with language, claiming that 'I feel lost outside the French language.'

Yet Derrida writes in a very annoying style, creating new words every other page and presenting the book as if it were the transciption of a dialogue. It's also overpriced unless you're a Derrida fanatic, which means you probably already own it anyway.

Not exactly a must read.

after wading through _writing and difference_, this nice little book was a most pleasant surprise. In comparison to W & D, _The Monolingualism of the Other_ is a very readable book and there are plenty of ideas presented in this text that can be grasped without fully understanding Derrida's project. In conjunction with this, many of the ideas that Derrida discusses can be accepted and implented into ones own thought without necessarily agreeing with Derrida's project. An enjoyable and thought-provoking read.

"Monolingualism of the Other; or, The Prosthesis of Origin," by Jacques Derrida, is a compelling blend of autobiographical material and cultural criticism. Originally published in French in 1996, the text has been translated into English by Patrick Mensah. According to a note at the beginning of the book, a shorter, different version of the text was delivered orally at a colloquium at the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in 1992.

In the book, Derrida reflects on his past as an Algerian Jew living under French colonialism. He raises questions about language politics, personal identity, cultural domination, the notion of a "mother tongue," and the idea of "metalanguage." He reflects on the practical mechanics of French colonial administration in Algeria, and on Algeria's Jewish population: "a disintegrated 'community,' cut up and cut off." He also discusses his own problematic relationship with the French language.

I found "Monolingualism of the Other" absolutely gripping. Although Derrida's prose (as translated by Mensah) sometimes strikes me as convoluted to the point of obscurity, I often found Derrida's style to be elegant, even poetic, and very accessible. But be warned: if you're intimidated by phrases like "ontico-ontological re-mark," "a pre-egological ipseity," or "the hegemony of the homogeneous," the book may be a bit much to take.

But many will, I believe, tear into this challenging text with gusto. I believe that the issues raised by Derrida in this book are relevant to many other cultural phenomena: the debate over Black English, the political and literary recognition of creole and pidgin languages, the ongoing efforts to preserve the Celtic languages, etc. If you have a serious interest in these and related issues, I strongly recommend this book.

Mainly a collection of articles from Omni, many from the anti-matter section. Not a lot of depth to most of them, which is to be expected, since anti-matter was a collection of short articles about the paranormal. I was hoping for something along the lines of "Shockingly Close to the Truth" by Mosely, so we could get a deeper look at the investigative process, which is what I thought I was buying. I found it a bit dull, and can't recommend it.

This complilation of Patrick Huyghe's writings on the subject of UFOs was both fascinating and fun to read. He has a knack for addressing serious and mysterious subject areas with a touch of humor. As it happens, Omni ran some of the best UFO reporting anywhere for nearly a decade, and Huyghe was responsible for a lot of it. In "Swamp Gas Times" he has updated his articles for Omni and other publications, and put these pieces in both a jouralistic and ufological perspective. The book also contains material that has not appeared elsewhere before. Well researched and objective, this book is a treasure in the field of UFO research.

SWAMP GAS TIMES is an intelligently written and thoughtfully assembled collection of articles and observations from the author's years as a writer on matters UFO related. He covers the topic from the early days- George Adamski, Kenneth Arnold, J.Allen Hynek, etc. right up through the current controversies of today. The book is very nicely put together, and every piece is prefaced by a useful commentary which lends a personal and reflective tone. Mr. Huyge has followed the UFO phenomenon over decades and offers a very well-informed overview which, I believe, will especially benefit readers new to the field as well as delight old timers who remember how it all began.

This isn't the first "history of AI" book in my collection, and won't be the last. I picked this one up because of Hogan's name, and am happy with that choice. I like his style. He knows where to put in the jokes (although he could use a few more during the weaker parts toward the end). The beginning, which starts wayyyyy back with the philosophers, is a little dry, and the end (with lots of time spent on what computers still can't do) didn't interest me. I like knowing about the trials and tribulations of what worked and didn't, and why. I'm hoping that one of these days somebody will do an entire book on the Cyc project.

I started to say I "enjoyed" this book, but it seems to be this is not the type of book that one "enjoys." I have read everything of James P. Hogan's work I could get my hands on, and he is one of my top two or three favorite writers. This is non-fiction, but it reflects the same clear and interesting style of his fiction. I would say that this book is not for a casual reader, nor was it intended as a textbook, though at some points it may seem that way. Artificial intelligence is a very interesting and widely misunderstood subject, and perhaps the greatest value of this book is in exploding some of the myths about AI. This is not a quick, easy read, but for the layman who wants to learn more about AI, it is well worth the time and effort involved in reading it.

I feel a computer helps humans to consider more complex ideas and that it is an adjunct to the human mind. I don't believe in AI. This book and Mr Hogan's comments support me in that. It is thoroughly enjoyable and written in an interested reader's level and not too Hi-tech.

So you pick up this book and read on the back cover the exciting quote about Hemingway's ghost and you're ready to drop some cash, right? Guess what--there's zero information about the Hemingway haunting in this book! In addition, old Ataulfo of Madrid has less words wasted on him than an asthmatic's version of Handel's Halleluja Chorus. Instead, what's offered here is a rehash of old stories (and old theories about what ghosts could be) with insipid, comic book illustrations. Why this is called a "field guide" with its connotation of an exhaustive reference to every kind of manifestation of a particular phenomenon--be it birds, plants, or mushrooms--is yet another part of the mystery of why this book exists. If you're a serious researcher of this subject, then pass this book up and seek Hem's fetch elsewhere.

The authors did a great job of categorizing the different types of ghost: haunter, poltergeist, revenant, harbinger, and time-slip.

There's plenty of helpful illustrations as well. I highly recommend this book.

This book tells you everything you need to know about ghosts.

There is definitely some interesting information in this book, but the use of biased anecdotes and several totally false claims make it difficult to determine how much of the book can actually be trusted.

Overall it wasn't worth buying because I had to spend many hours doing my own research on the authors' claims. As always books that rely on anecdotes to back up claimed benefits should be viewed with suspicion.

"Natural Highs" provides readers with excellent, timely information in a most readable form. The review of herbs, nutritional supplements and other natural substances provides scientific documentation for Dr. Cass' recommendations, as well as practical instructions on usage. Reading this book will help countless people feel better without relying on "coffee, Cokes, sugary snacks and other pick ups.

by William Crook...

I first came to this book because I was looking for help with the severe withdrawal symptoms I was experiencing from no longer taking Prozac. Natural Highs opened my eyes to the existence of not one, but many different natural supplements that would help me to rebalance and boost my mixed-up, post-Prozac serotonin levels. In addition, many of these supplements are, apparently, as good as or better than drugs for significantly improving problems with depression, anxiety, etc. in the long term -- with NO side effects. This book is well-written, thoroughly researched and organized, and provides clear, easy-to-read concise information. If the existence and significant benefits of these natural supplements were more widely known, and big drug companies had less money, power, and influence, I truly believe our world might very well be a happier, more well-adjusted, and more functional place.

I was really looking forward to reading this book. But I must say I am disappointed. I believe the author's premise that extraterrestrials likely play a significant role in religious history. I have been a student of the UFO phenomenon for nearly forty years. I also have a graduate degree in biblical and religious studies. So I feel that I am qualified to say that poor scholarship compromises this book's credibility. This work is a collection of information from various sources that the author has interpreted to support his pre-conceived thesis. There is not much in the way of new or original information here. Documentation of source material is lacking for the numerous quotations and case studies cited in this book. This book is filled with inexcusable grammatical and typographical anomalies. The entire first quarter of this book is a tedious list of King James Bible verses quoted out of context. The author used Strong's Concordance to reference certain key words that he thinks are references to UFOs. These verses may or may not refer to UFOs, depending on how you interpret words like "heaven" and "cloud." The veracity of some of the author's case studies regarding anomalous artifacts is questionable according to other works in this genre. What really blew my mind was an entire page devoted to the author's argument that Jesus Christ had short hair and no beard! What does that have to do with UFOs and the history of religion? While there is some "wheat" to be found in this book, I must say that most of it is "chaff." Your money would be better spent on Linda Moulton Howe's "High Strangeness, vol. II."

Wanna know what is the greatest deception? It's this book attempting to be anything more than trite pseudoscience!
Not even that. It's boring.

This book is filled with Bible versus implying flying vehicles coming from the sky and too look up at the sky because this where Christ is supposed to be coming with 20,000 of his flying vehicles. The deception is man will be decieved to think that the return of Christ will be some kind of alien invasion,and that man will be forced and deceived into fighting him, as states in the Bible-"very intersting". This book is filled with so much great informatiion that will shock you about the Elohym(the gods), the Malak( the angles),the Watchers, Enoch and so much more, so much too learn from this book. This a complete book from start to finish about aliens in the Bible. A must read for ufo buffs.

Please don't listen to people who think this book is a "must-have" or an "instant-classic", or another "(the author) has done it again!" book. This book is really rather weak book that should be considered more as entertainment than as a serious work.

1. "Mermen?" "Neo Giants"? Does anyone really think these things exist? And if they do, does anyone really think these things really exist based on a handful of weak reports?

2. The taxonomic classification system, while based in real science, is really a shot in the dark. While one might argue that Grover Krantz's beloved Gigantopithecus Blacki has been classified by science based on a few tooth fragments, well, that's actual physical evidence, and despite the fact that I do believe in a physical aspect to the Bigfoot phenomenon, there is no hard physical evidence. I know it's an attempt, Loren, but still, it's grasping at straws to even suggest these are different species. We could be dealing with a single species and the reported difference in physical appearance could be akin to so-called "racial" differences in humans.

3. The sightings in the reports are really kind of bland and uninteresting. No photographs, no eyewitness drawings, no photographs of locations, nothing. Just one pencil drawing per page. It would have been more interesting to make it look like a field investigator's scrapbook.

4. The sighting reports are too short. In many Bigfoot books, the author/researcher may spend many pages on a single sighting, interviewing eyewitnesses, documenting evidence, revisiting the scene, etc. There's none of this here. Every entry looks the same and is pretty much the same length.

5. I'm really baffled to find myself listed in the Acknowledgements section. I really don't know what I did to assist in the production of this book. I didn't even know the authors were writing it.

It's a fair read, don't get me wrong, though I think that anyone who reads it ought to read it with an iceberg-sized grain of salt. Those well versed in Bigfoot should give it a pass, or take it on as a curio, a maker in the careers of Loren Coleman and Patrick Hughye. Coleman in particular has been getting away from theorizing and sticking to dishing reports, so it's all the more frustrating to see him go back to theorizing and producing such, well, quality rubbish. I think it would be a good starter book for children in the way Marian Place's books were, a category that currently remains unfilled. It's contraversial, but then again, most Bigfooters think that professional wrestling is contraversial.

It's an odd book, a field guide for a nonexistent field.

A great field guide which encompasses centuries old mystery primates, to the authors' conclusions as to which unknown hairy homonoids are most likely to be discovered in the next century.

This book ia a "must read" for anyone interested in this subject as it contains maps, footprint comparisons and descriptions combined with wonderful illustrations of over 50 of these creatures from all over the world. There is also a new classification system which helps sort through this myriad list of creatures.

It is certainly well worth the small cost -- a reference, once read, you will want to keep at your fingertips in the future.

"The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide" by Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe stands alone as a work that attempts to briefly describe each of a variety of distinct animals sighted worldwide.

The authors have presented the cases, not as the "be all and end all" of mystery primate reference, but rather, as the title denotes, as a "field guide". The historical accounts are informative, nicely condensed, and feature excellent drawings by Harry Trumbore.

It can be argued that the differences in individual sightings leading to the creation of so many distinct "classifications" has the effect of lessening credibility, but the reader is free to make their own judgements. Although some would relegate it to the realm of "mythology", the majority of the sightings are based on solid historical evidence. To include more than one or two specific sightings per entry would have burdened the book with unnecessary bulk and turned it from a "field-guide" into an "encyclopedia".

Overall it is another excellent book from a cryptozoologist with nearly 40 years of experience.

Dr. Porter takes the subject of the mind and explains how to use it to your best potential in a way that everyone can comprehend. Patrick has taken the subject of becoming your best, applied it to himself, with his clients and now with this book shows you how you can tap into that genius part of yourself. This book is excellent for those wanting an easy to read and easy to understand method of getting the best from yourself.

As a hypnotherapist I always enjoy reading books like this. Anyone searching for peace of mind and self discovery would value this book as well. It's a very quick read - fun and informative.