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Too many hypotheticals not enough real examples

Revisado: 03-24-22

"Could" and "should" pontificating is easy to write. What I was hoping for was examples of "are". A lot of progress has been made with MSR nuclear power, HTSE and SOEC green hydrogen production, fuel cell and rare earth recovery, and green steel production especially in Europe. This is the book I'm waiting for.

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Stunning expose of military injustice

Revisado: 07-25-21

Why is Google blockiing this book from search? Another victim of their insane Trump hatred? Scary people.

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Perpetuates the myth of romantic monogamy

Revisado: 10-25-16

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I have no dispute with the validity of the insight into what most Western women respond to in a man since the material is taken mostly from women's own words. I'm just amazed that the whole process for men still seems to be geared towards fitting a woman's romantic notion of Prince Charming (i.e.confident, devoted, committed, and trustworthy). Given the divorce rates it seems that this culturally defined romantic model of male desirability is rather ephemeral and idealistic. Having just finished Betty Dodson's memoir "My Romantic Love Wars" this book seems like a throwback to pre-feminist game playing. I'm sure the advice Kinrys gives works with women who buy into the life-long monogamy trap but we need to get past this anachronism at some point.

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Frank insight into the mind of a creative hedonist

Revisado: 10-17-16

It is rare for men in particular to get to the level of open intimacy with a woman that this book provides . Betty cuts through social conventions and taboos from the female point of view and explores their deep erotic foundations with honesty, humility, and humor. This book is a meditation on "body as body" found in the Buddhist and Hindu teachings. Betty is a bold and fearless explorer of the dark continent of suppressed sexual desire that lies invisible beneath the superficial facade of conditioned existence.

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A Profile in Courage

Revisado: 03-26-13

What did you love best about Beyond Belief?

This book showed how the instinctive human desire for love and fulfillment can eventually overcome and triumph over the most pernicious and psychotic brainwashing ever conceived by sociopathic morons.

What did you like best about this story?

The level of detail that Jenna remembered about her experiences. It made it all the more vivid and painful.

Which scene was your favorite?

After listening to the painful chapters of systematic child abuse and exploitation at the hands of demented cult bullies it was so cathartic to hear Jenna in a perfect gesture of supreme definance take the phoney e-meter soup cans from her voyeuristic auditor and crush them under her foot.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

When she was willing to sacrifice her life by jumping out the window unless the cult bullies produced her boyfriend, Dallas, whom they had imprisoned to brainwash and turn against her.

Any additional comments?

Listen to the dispassionate but no less shocking account of Scientology, Going Clear, by Lawrence Wright in addition to this book. This helps clarify some of the background shennanigans that were going on with David Miscaivage during and after LRH and the other cast of looneys that make up this sci-fi horror story. As Jenna points out you can't tell someone they are in a cult. They have to grasp it on their own.

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Needs more research, less rambling

Revisado: 02-22-12

What would have made The Buddha and the Quantum better?

As both a Vipassana meditator and student of modern physics and cosmology through several of the excellent Audible books on these topics I was really hoping for more documented research and less new age speculation. Scientists such as Henry Stapp from Lawrence Berkely Laboratory have published scientific studies attempting to describe the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) in terms of quantum processes occuring at the neuronal level. The German philosopher Thomas Mettizinger in his book, The Ego Tunnel provided a very interesting section on how long term meditation may penetrate the illusion of the self . This level of information would have better than the quasi-scientific musings of the author.
Every since Bohr and Wigner developed the Coppenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics postulating the collapse of the probability wave through an act of observation it has been exploited as the bridge between the dualest worlds of the physical and the mental. I don't believe such a bridge is actually necessary since consciousness simply emerges from the underlying physical processes that adaptively evolved in the human species. In other words its all ultimately physical. The point Buddha was trying to make was that by following his prescription you didn't have to experience the suffering that inevitably comes with the software. He didn't get bogged down in natural philosophy (what we call science) since he didn't trust what he didn't personally experience. This would probably include atomic and quantum effects that occur at scales beyond our senses. The

What could Samuel Avery have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

More real research and less pseudo-analysis.

Would you be willing to try another one of Samuel Avery’s performances?

No

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