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April 15, 2022

Monk and Robot

A book review

By Robin Beck

As a genre, science fiction is often misunderstood. Behind the cool gadgets, far-off worlds, and post-apocalyptic sorrows often portrayed, science fiction is always a commentary on the current social paradigm. As author and historian Jill Lepore says, "science fiction is not fundamentally about the future. It really is always about the present or about the past. So to read it as a manifesto for the future is to begin by misreading it."

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Thinking the Impossible: New Myths for a Future Consciousness

An Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Kripal
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Mapping the Noosphere: Science, Mysticism, and the Geometry of Consciousness

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The Imaginal Path: Tarot, Telepathy, and the Wisdom of Symbols

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The Invisible Causes of Positive Change

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Ecology, Christianity, and a Logic of Future Coexistence

An interview with Timothy Morton
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A Summary of the Fetzer Institute’s Sharing Spiritual Heritage Report: An review by Ariela Cohen and Robin Beck

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Choosing Earth, Choosing Us: A book review of Choosing Earth

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Monk and Robot: A book review

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No Pallatives. No Promises: Radical acceptance as one woman's path to living with grief

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The Gospel of Relaxation

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What is Love? An Introspection

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Divine Dragon of the Light

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Higher Dimensional Beings

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My Journey to Inherent Freedom

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My Journey to Abiding Presence

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The Path of Spiritual Breakthrough

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Shelli Renée Joye

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