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Color, Pain, and Touch
Dear Friend, First, I’m pleased to share that our “recommend a book” form is live and ready for your input! If you want to suggest a group read for this project, please fill out this form. This week’s reading from An Immense World covered a lot of ground, from continuing explorations into how animals perceive…
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A Responsibility to this Immense World?
Dear Friend, Today, we begin our second week of reading Ed Yong’s An Immense World. Last week, if you followed the pace I set for myself, you probably read about the first ninety pages, which includes the introduction and first two chapters (and a little bit of chapter three). In my reading, there were a…
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New Beginnings: An Immense World
Dear Friend, Today, we begin reading our first selection for this new contemplative reading project, Ed Yong’s An Immense World. Why Contemplative Reading? Contemplative reading asks us not just what we’re learning about the book in our hands (or ears), but what we’re learning about ourselves through the experience of reading it. The aim is…
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The Contemplative Reading Project: Season One
Hello Friend. I’m pleased to be introducing myself and this new project. My name is Adam Burgess. I’m a Professor of English, a writer, a Buddhist lay-practitioner, a lifelong student, and an avid reader. Each of these aspects, and many more, is sure to come into the way I read and the way I respond…
Contemplative Reading Project 