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Wicked twists and dark humour are the signature of these short stories, extracts and vignettes, narrated by Jack Sanger to amuse, challenge, inform and entertain the listener. Intro music by Joseph Myoushin Sanger (Ravel's Bolero) Outro music by Luke Sanger (This Session Has Now Ended). Novels, plays, poetry and short stories can be found for free download or donation at: www.jacksanger.com
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In this discourse, Our Spiritual Master KrsnaKnows expounds the Bhakti Yoga Sutras (Path of Love & Devotion) of Devrishi Naradmuni, Narada's Aphorisms on Love Divine( Love and Devotion to Lord) which is called "Narada Bhakti Sutra".
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Case of Wagner / Nietzsche Contra Wagner / Selected Aphorisms, The by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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Case of Wagner / Nietzsche Contra Wagner / Selected Aphorisms, The by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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A collection of three of Nietzsche's writings concerning the music of Wagner. In particular, he relates Wagner's music as degenerate, unrefined and unintelligent and relates it to a gradually degenerating German culture and society. The translator provides a detailed introduction. - Summary by the Reader
In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) published two short collections of aphorisms: “A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated”, in the Saturday Review newspaper, and “Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young”, in the Oxford student magazine The Chameleon. By turns witty, intellectual, counter-intuitive and obtuse, the collections came to be seen by many as emblematic of Wilde’s style, and countless collections of Wildean aphorisms have since been published.
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Golden Sayings of Epictetus, The by Epictetus (c. 55 - c. 135)
Aphorisms from the Stoic Greek.
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Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is the podcast by author/producer Rick Whitaker that puts good books to use for their sleep-inducing qualities--books for which suspense is less important than the music of their language. Books read aloud to prove that, good as a book may be, it's perfectly alright to let it lull you to sleep. Let's face it, nowadays getting to sleep can be tricky. So get into bed, turn off the lights, close your eyes, and listen to Read Me to Sleep, Ricky. Please share this with you ...
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Institutes Christian Religion on SermonAudio
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Institutes Christian Religion on SermonAudio
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Everything Voluntary with Skyler J. Collins
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Everything Voluntary with Skyler J. Collins
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A podcast about voluntaryism, free markets, agorism, radical unschooling, peaceful parenting and self improvement. Hosted by Skyler J. Collins.
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Fall 2013 Shamatha and the Bodhisattva Way of Life
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Fall 2013 Shamatha and the Bodhisattva Way of Life
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Alan Wallace Fall 2013 8-Week retreat on Shamatha and the Bodhisattva Way of Life, including teachings on the Seven-Point Mind-Training and A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, by B. Alan Wallace at the Thanyapura Mind Centre in Phuket, Thailand, from September 2nd- October 28th, 2013
When a tennis pro lunges for a difficult drop volley, or a concert cellist rips through the difficult section of a Bach suite, are they thinking about what they're doing? Some would say that elite physical performance is essentially a mindless phenomenon, and that thinking is counterproductive to success. But the reality is more complex - and more …
For more than three millennia, most buildings in China were configured around a central courtyard. This week's guest believes that the courtyard helps us to understand Chinese society and culture, as well as Confucian philosophy. Today, with increasing numbers of people living in urban apartment buildings, the courtyard has become something of a pe…
A child. A world in collapse. A solution...By Jack Sanger
The recipe for living well is simple: develop a morally sound set of values, formulate goals rooted in those values, and achieve those goals. But beneath this basic formula there lurks a number of tricky questions.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
What leads the investigator of a tiny immortal jellyfish to become involved in the analysis of an alien artefact tumbling through our solar system?By Jack Sanger
When philosophy turns its attention to music, it's traditionally an exercise in high culture. Questions about the nature and function of music are often explored with reference to an established canon of "serious" music – while pop finds itself relegated to the margins. This week we're getting serious about pop, and exploring the ways that the comp…
A complete short story about the search for archaeological treasure on an alien moon.By Jack Sanger
The arrival of twins in a man's life is both joyful and tragic. What will be their effect as they grow into women?By Jack Sanger
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Conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism and fun
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a conspiracy theorist. Many people who buy into paranoid fantasies about stolen Presidential elections and global Satanic cabals are perfectly sane, well-educated individuals. So why do they fall for these myths? This week we consider the possibility that the attraction is primarily aesthetic, and that the experien…
Sci-fi short story. Forced by a car breakdown to stop at a small town. Surely there is nothing of note here....By Jack Sanger
"School Days" is from Richard Howard's 2008 collection of poetry Without Saying. A distinguished poet, critic and translator, Richard Howard held a unique place in contemporary American letters. Howard was credited with introducing modern French fiction—particularly examples of the Nouveau Roman—to the American public; his translation of Charles Ba…
These days we’re constantly pushed to be more efficient – at work, of course, but also in our leisure pursuits and even while we sleep. How did we get here? And how can we get back to a state that’s governed by principles other than accumulation and profit? This week, a story of two key figures in the history of modern industrial capitalism: F.W. T…
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An Inseparable Companion: back to the future…
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Sci-fi short story. If you had the opportunity to have, as your companion, the person of your dreams....By Jack Sanger
Read Me to Sleep, Ricky's host Rick Whitaker reads his own selection of aphorisms by Americans: Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Jane Jacobs, Mencken, Santayana, and Aaron Haspel. Music: Frederic Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" Variations Support the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker Contact: rickawhitak…
Children can teach adults a thing or two when it comes to the getting of wisdom. But does this mean that children are philosophers? And if the answer is Yes, then what kind of philosophers are they?By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Lady with the Dog, a story by Anton Chekhov
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In tonight's episode of Read Me to Sleep, Ricky, host Rick Whitaker reads a classic love story by the Russian master Anton Chekhov. Published in 1899, translated by Constance Garnett. Music: Tchaikovsky's "Souvenir de Florence," second movement Support the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.com http…
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The Year of the Wolf Dog: who can redeem the human race?
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Sci-fi complete short story. What starts in a petri dish does not end in a petri dish!By Jack Sanger
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Power, domination and the ethics of global philanthropy
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When billionaires want to make a positive difference in the world, many of them turn to philanthropy. Which is fine in principle, but this week we're asking if giving away money via huge global philanthropic foundations is really an unalloyed good.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Scroll in the Olive Tree; a 2000 year old hidden mystery!
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A sc-fi complete short story. A scroll is found, hundreds of miles from The Dead Sea....what follows?By Jack Sanger
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Bilingual parenting, home and the mother tongue
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Standard philosophical accounts of language present it as a kind of home – a place that we inhabit, and that shapes our sense of self. But what happens when we're not quite "at home" within a language?By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
A complete short story about pharmaceutical science and the in-built capacity of human beings to risk the consequences of their actions.By Jack Sanger
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Rrrring!: you want door security? Be careful what you wish for!
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Sci-fi short story. What lurks underneath the glossy exterior of your new appliance for your home?By Jack Sanger
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Flowers of Evil: Richard Howard's translation of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal
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Poet and translator par excellence Richard Howard, who was a dear friend, died March 31, 2022 at 92. His 1982 translation of Baudelaire's masterpiece, Les Fleurs du Mal, won the National Book Award. Read here by Rick Whitaker With affectionate thanks to David Alexander Support the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker Contact: ric…
Confusion has reigned at Twitter since Elon Musk took the reins of the company, and one of the most pressing questions has to do with whether or not the social media platform will be reshaped to fit its new CEO's ideal of unfettered free speech. Musk has referred to Twitter as the "digital town square" – but how can the town square also be a privat…
Read Me to Sleep, Ricky's host, Rick Whitaker, reads his selection of Blaise Pascal's Pensees interposed with J.S. Bach's Little Preludes and Italian Concerto. Pianist: Glenn Gould Support the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.com https://readmetosleepricky.com…
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The Galaxy Final: One on one. No neuronal enhancements!
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Sci-Fi short story. The greatest tournament known to any intelligence in the Galactic Arm. A test of individual genius so great, it can damn a losing finalist to perpetual darkness... and enrich the winner beyond all dreamsBy Jack Sanger
What does it mean to study and teach philosophy in prison? Andy West has been teaching philosophy in prisons since 2015, and his memoir The Life Inside is a fascinating account of this experience - as well as a reflection on inherited trauma and the fact that his father, uncle and brother all spent time behind bars.…
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The Artefact: the macabre case of an alien bracelet
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Sc-fi short story. An artefact from Mars with strange properties. A train of unforeseen events.By Jack Sanger
Lojong (Tib. བློ་སྦྱོང་,Wylie: blo sbyong) is a mind training practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition based on a set of aphorisms formulated in Tibet in the 12th century by Chekawa Yeshe Dorje. The practice involves refining and purifying one's motivations and attitudes. The fifty-nine or so slogans that form the root text of the mind training p…
Like death, causation is something of a riddle. The death certificate of Queen Elizabeth II has "old age" given as the cause of death - but given that old age is simply an outcome of being alive for a certain period of time, what does it mean to pathologise it in this way, and to list it as a fatal condition? Far from being an exact science, death …
Sci-fi short story. Asteroid approaching? Blow it up or deflect it? - after all, we are the defenders of planet Earth…By Jack Sanger
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Post-Script: what happens at the end of days?
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Sci-Fi short story. Revelations at the point of death can be massive, unforeseen and overpowering...By Jack Sanger
Read Me to Sleep, Ricky's host Rick Whitaker reads John Gardner's 1971 monster novel GRENDEL (in lower-than-usual monster voice). Music by Brad Garton. Support the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.com https://readmetosleepricky.comBy Rick Whitaker
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Bugarach Mountain: what awaits those who dare enter its caves?
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Sci-Fi short story. Bugarach Mountain is a place of myth - and strange happenings. A young couple decide to visit it and see and feel for themselves, its strange ambience.By Jack Sanger
Günther Anders is the most interesting and important philosopher you've probably never heard of. An exile from Nazi Germany who landed in America in the late 1930s, Anders was a prescient theorist of media and technology whose insights are remarkably pertinent to today's digital landscape. His major work is a best-seller in Europe and he's one of G…
Insect farming, we're told by its proponents, is the next big thing in edible protein production, and it may just save the world. But an insect "farm" is more like a manufacturing plant where the tiny organisms are pulped into powder form.What is the moral status of these living things? Can we be sure they're not sentient beings, capable of experie…
Sc-Fi short story. CRISPR ( known by its popular name 'genetic scissors') is up and running today. but cast your mind forward a few decades and think what the consequences might be...By Jack Sanger
Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story: The Graphic Novel: Alessandro, Brian, Carroll, Michael, White, Edmund, Karash, Igor: 9781603095082: Amazon.com: Books Edmund Valentine White III (born 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and an essayist on literary and social topics. Since 1999 he has been a professor at Princeton Unive…
Sci-fi short story fusing biological changes, asteroid sampling and a burst of human evolution!By Jack Sanger
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Love Elegies: Mark Scott's 'A Bedroom Occupation'
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Read Me to Sleep, Ricky host Rick Whitaker reads a selection from Mark Scott's 2007 collection A Bedroom Occupation. "... the most heart-breaking love poetry since that other Empire fell." --Richard Howard "Is that afterglow or is the house on fire? Scott's work and writing have an almost narcotic power." --David Rakoff "These letters from a self-d…
Modern travel is a commodity: you buy a holiday. But have you ever thought of travel as a philosophical activity? Offering the discovery of new traditions, new perspectives and the acquisition of knowledge, travel should make philosophers of us all. The 19th century was an era in which travel was thought of in this way, and women were out there at …
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The Mental Traveller: a story of close male friendship
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What does Lawrence do when he receives a plea from his oldest friend to travel to Scotland and save him? Even though their lives seem to have gone their different ways in recent years.By Jack Sanger
Read Me to Sleep, Ricky host Rick Whitaker reads new translations of songs composed 800 years ago. Troubadours were well-known secular entertainers whose songs explored love and politics, mostly love, and mostly "distant love." Troubadours were active during the High Middle Ages, 1100-1350. The word troubadour arose from the Occitan language. Occit…
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The Chess King: cheating to win or something else?
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Sci-fi meets chess meets medieval history. The vitriolic accusations of cheating in the recent World Championship stand-off between Carlsen and Niemann is as nothing compared to a game being played out in a parallel universe in this story!By Jack Sanger
Refugees have been with us for millennia, but the modern refugee exists under a distinctively modern set of circumstances. Moral philosophers often fail to take these circumstances into account, and to acknowledge the ways in which the West can be responsible for refugee crises.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
A lighthearted ramble through musings on death and the afterlife in my near eighty years of life.By Jack Sanger
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James Joyce's "The Dead" with guest artist Carmela Marner
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Read Me to Sleep, Ricky host Rick Whitaker is joined by actress Carmela Marner for a reading of James Joyce's classic story "The Dead." In her 1987 review of John Huston's film based on the James Joyce story, Pauline Kael wrote, 'The announcement that John Huston was making a movie of James Joyce’s “The Dead” raised the question “Why?” What could i…
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Change of Heart: after the transplant - who are you?
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Sci-fi short story. The future is here - and nowhere more than in the operating theatre. But surgery may end up giving you more than you anticipate...By Jack Sanger
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How Nietzsche extracts cheerfulness from suffering
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Friedrich Nietzsche is popularly regarded as one of the gloomier thinkers, so people are often surprised to learn that he can be very funny. But the humour in his writing is doing serious work: Nietzsche is looking for a way to find joy in the darkest corners of life - and to do it without falling back on what he sees as false Christian comfort.…
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The Sim Six: a story for all ages about chess and an alien
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Benoit, an eleven year old French boy, encounters the strange disappearance into thin air of a variety of creatures while he is fishing. He returns home and opens his internet chess site - only to discover his chess playing group from across the world have had the same kind of experience.By Jack Sanger
