Thank you Dr. Shruti Shankar Guar for sharing your thoughts on Daniel Quinn's Ishmael book series. It's interesting to think that the great majority of what we experience and express in our lives unfolds within our own minds. Our perceptions, cultural influences, internal dialogue, and ideologies all blend together to paint a uniquely personal reality. So it makes sense that everything we take in is deconstructed and processed based on that reality and the needs we have within it. The external stimuli we receive provides different solutions for all of us because during our time on this planet, none of us are walking the exact same path.
Wow! So true.....each one of us is walking our own unique journey but we are trained, the solutions are suggested; we judge and perceive the world as if we all are walking the same exact path. Isn't that the central dispute of our culture? Like everyone should get SAME education, SAME cultural training to make us all SAME. Anything different has to be abandoned, feared or exterminated. Thank you Vernon Hiller. Your thoughts have led to so many more within me and that's the benefit of talking to fellow thinker.
Shruti, it’s so exciting when a book has this kind of impact! How thrilling and wonderful when a book leaves us “dizzy with thoughts.” I thoroughly enjoyed reading about your experience with My Ishmael; I love the passion and intensity you expressed. And I admire your willingness to wrestle with the book’s message, as well as your openness and honesty in sharing about your process of self-reflection and the conclusions you arrived at.
Thank you Dr. Shruti Shankar Guar for sharing your thoughts on Daniel Quinn's Ishmael book series. It's interesting to think that the great majority of what we experience and express in our lives unfolds within our own minds. Our perceptions, cultural influences, internal dialogue, and ideologies all blend together to paint a uniquely personal reality. So it makes sense that everything we take in is deconstructed and processed based on that reality and the needs we have within it. The external stimuli we receive provides different solutions for all of us because during our time on this planet, none of us are walking the exact same path.
Wow! So true.....each one of us is walking our own unique journey but we are trained, the solutions are suggested; we judge and perceive the world as if we all are walking the same exact path. Isn't that the central dispute of our culture? Like everyone should get SAME education, SAME cultural training to make us all SAME. Anything different has to be abandoned, feared or exterminated. Thank you Vernon Hiller. Your thoughts have led to so many more within me and that's the benefit of talking to fellow thinker.
Shruti, it’s so exciting when a book has this kind of impact! How thrilling and wonderful when a book leaves us “dizzy with thoughts.” I thoroughly enjoyed reading about your experience with My Ishmael; I love the passion and intensity you expressed. And I admire your willingness to wrestle with the book’s message, as well as your openness and honesty in sharing about your process of self-reflection and the conclusions you arrived at.
Absolutely Susan. Thank you for always inspiring me.
Hey I will suggest whenever you read Daniel Quinn....after reading Ishmael read his Providence. I will share my book review post that. ;)