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transtwill's Reviews (554)
An excellent read from the interesting perspective of someone who sees the world much more as animals do than most people. I found myself feeling a kinship with the author, as many of her views were similar to my own. I had not regarded seeing from an animal's point of view as unusual until I became an adult and it was very refreshing to read the account of someone who looks at things as I do.
Couldn't concentrate on the book about halfway through. Have already read plenty about mindfulness and this provided nothing new. Too bored to get to the end of the book. Prolly be a good read for someone else
A remarkable travel through the origins of several heritable conditions and the evolutionary theories of why something that is so harmful to our health now would have been passed on and spread in a population. A definite eye opener with fascinating surprises.
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
V.S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee
An excellent book on some of the more unusual and intriguing inner workings of the human mind. While the author's tendency towards verbosity made it a bit of a more difficult read for me, I would still highly recommend it for the remarkable, and at times ingenious, insights within.
This woman write everything that I've thought since conversion. She picks apart all the stubborn deep-set flaws of Islam and point out where there is room to grow and improve. Without this book I would never have learned about the concept of ijtihad, the individual reading and interpreting of the Qu'ran, finding one's own truth rather than listening to the opinions that have been repeated for centuries and taken as truth. This book took all the flaws that bothered me and listed how they can be changed, that Islam as a whole does not need to bow to the iron whims of the current literal and unbending interpretations that currently hobble it.
An interesting trip through the global view of mental illness as influenced by the coldly clinical position of the United States. It talks of native views of hardship and illness and the disruption of cultural views and way of healing through the unwanted "help" that well-meaning american clinicians force on other countries.