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George Saunders - Wikipedia

George Saunders - Wikipedia


George Saunders

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George Saunders
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BornDecember 2, 1958 (age 64)
Amarillo, Texas, U.S.
Occupation
  • Writer
  • journalist
  • college professor
LanguageEnglish
Education
Period1986–present [a]
Notable works
Notable awards
SpousePaula Redick[1]
Children2[2]
Website
www.georgesaundersbooks.com

George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ. He also contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to The Guardian's weekend magazine between 2006 and 2008.[3]

A professor at Syracuse University, Saunders won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and second prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1997. His first story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, was a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award. In 2006, Saunders received a MacArthur Fellowship and won the World Fantasy Award for his short story "CommComm".[4]

His story collection In Persuasion Nation was a finalist for the Story Prize in 2007. In 2013, he won the PEN/Malamud Award[5] and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Saunders's Tenth of December: Stories won the 2013 Story Prize for short-story collections[6] and the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize.[7][8] His novel Lincoln in the Bardo (Bloomsbury Publishing) won the 2017 Booker Prize.[9]

Early life and education[edit]

Saunders was born in Amarillo, Texas. He grew up in Oak Forest, Illinois, near Chicago, attended St. Damian Catholic School and graduated from Oak Forest High School in Oak Forest, Illinois. He spent some of his early 20s working as a roofer in Chicago, a doorman in Beverly Hills, and a slaughterhouse knuckle-puller.[10][11] In 1981, he received a B.S. in geophysical engineering from Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. Of his scientific background, Saunders has said, "any claim I might make to originality in my fiction is really just the result of this odd background: basically, just me working inefficiently, with flawed tools, in a mode I don't have sufficient background to really understand. Like if you put a welder to designing dresses."[12]

In 1988, he was awarded an M.A. in creative writing from Syracuse University, where he worked with Tobias Wolff.[13] At Syracuse, he met Paula Redick, a fellow writer, whom he married. Saunders recalled, "we [got] engaged in three weeks, a Syracuse Creative Writing Program record that, I believe, still stands".[1]

Of his influences,[13] Saunders has written:

I really love Russian writers, especially from the 19th and early 20th Century: Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Babel. I love the way they take on the big topics. I'm also inspired by a certain absurdist comic tradition that would include influences like Mark Twain, Daniil Kharms, Groucho Marx, Monty Python, Steve Martin, Jack Handey, etc. And then, on top of that, I love the strain of minimalist American fiction writing: Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff.[14]

Career[edit]

Background and work[edit]

From 1989 to 1996, Saunders worked as a technical writer and geophysical engineer for Radian International, an environmental engineering firm in Rochester, New York. He also worked for a time with an oil exploration crew in Sumatra in the early 1980s.[11][15]

Since 1997, Saunders has been on the faculty of Syracuse University, teaching creative writing in the school's MFA program while continuing to publish fiction and nonfiction.[13][16] In 2006, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship. He was a Visiting Writer at Wesleyan University and Hope College in 2010 and participated in Wesleyan's Distinguished Writers Series and Hope College's Visiting Writers Series. His nonfiction collection, The Braindead Megaphone, was published in 2007.[17]

Saunders's fiction often focuses on the absurdity of consumerism, corporate culture, and the role of mass media. Many reviewers mention his writing's satirical tone, but his work also raises moral and philosophical questions. The tragicomic element in his writing has earned Saunders comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut, whose work has inspired him.[18]

Ben Stiller bought the film rights to CivilWarLand in Bad Decline in the late 1990s; as of 2007, the project was in development by Stiller's company, Red Hour Productions.[19] Saunders has also written a feature-length screenplay based on his short story "Sea Oak".[20]

Saunders considered himself an Objectivist in his twenties but now views the philosophy unfavorably, likening it to neoconservatism.[21] He is a student of Nyingma Buddhism.[2]

Awards[edit]

Saunders has won the National Magazine Award for Fiction four times: in 1994, for "The 400-Pound CEO" (published in Harper's); in 1996, for "Bounty" (also published in Harper's); in 2000, for "The Barber's Unhappiness" (published in The New Yorker); and in 2004, for "The Red Bow" (published in Esquire).[22] Saunders won second prize in the 1997 O. Henry Awards for his short story "The Falls", initially published in the January 22, 1996, issue of The New Yorker.[23][24]

His first short-story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, was a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award.[25]

In 2001, Saunders received a Lannan Literary Fellowship in Fiction from the Lannan Foundation.[26]

In 2006, Saunders was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[27] Also that year, he received a MacArthur Fellowship;[28] his short-story collection In Persuasion Nation was a finalist for The Story Prize;[29] and he won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story for his short story "CommComm", first published in the August 1, 2005, issue of The New Yorker.[30][4]

In 2009, Saunders received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[31][32] In 2014, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[33]

In 2013, Saunders won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.[34] His short-story collection Tenth of December won the 2013 Story Prize.[6] The collection also won the inaugural Folio Prize in 2014, "the first major English-language book prize open to writers from around the world".[7][35][36][8] The collection was also a finalist for the National Book Award[37] and was named one of the "10 Best Books of 2013" by the editors of the New York Times Book Review.[38] In a January 2013 cover story, The New York Times Magazine called Tenth of December "the best book you'll read this year".[39] One of the stories in the collection, "Home", was a 2011 Bram Stoker Award finalist.[40]

In 2017, Saunders published his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize and was a New York Times bestseller.

Awards and honors[edit]

Awards won[edit]

Finalist honors[edit]

Works[edit]

Novels[edit]

Short fiction[edit]

Other[edit]

TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes
I can speak!™1999Saunders, George (June 21–28, 1999). "I can speak!™". The New Yorker.
  • In Persuasion Nation
  • Saunders, George (December 30, 2019). "I can speak!™". The New Yorker. Vol. 95, no. 42. pp. 57–58.
Often acclaimed as among his best short stories.[43][44]
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip2000Children's book
"Four Institutional Monologues"2000McSweeney's4th story included in In Persuasion NationOriginally released as a booklet[45]
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil2005Novella
"Fox 8"[46]2013, 2018Fox 8 (2018)First released as an e-book in 2013, the story was later published in hardcover by Random House in 2018.[47]
"A Two-Minute Note to the Future"2014Aphoristic essay on brown paper Chipotle bag.[48]

Essays and reporting[edit]

Anthologies[edit]

  • Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts, edited by David Shields and Matthew Vollmer (2012)
  • Cappelens Forslags Conversational Lexicon Volume II, edited by Pil Cappelen Smith, published by Cappelens Forslag (2016) ISBN 978-82-999643-4-0

Interviews[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ In the "Author's Note" to the 2012 paperback reprint of CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Saunders writes about an early story he published in 1986, titled "A Lack of Order in the Floating Object Room," which he (quote): "used it to get into Syracuse. This story was originally published in Northwest Review, Volume 24, Number 2, in 1986."

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to:a b Saunders, George. "My Writing Education: A Time Line". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b Lovell, Joel (January 3, 2013). "George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You'll Read This Year". The New York Times. The New York Times Magazine.
  3. ^ "American psyche | Life and style". The Guardian. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
  4. ^ Jump up to:a b World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on December 1, 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
  5. ^ "Saunders Wins PEN/Malamud Award". Pw.org. Archived from the original on May 5, 2013. Retrieved August 11, 2014.
  6. ^ Jump up to:a b Dark, Larry (March 5, 2014). "TSP: George Saunders Wins His First Book Award, The Story Prize, for Tenth of December". The Story Prize (Press release). Retrieved September 25, 2022.
  7. ^ Jump up to:a b Ron Charles (March 10, 2014). "George Saunders wins $67,000 for first Folio Prize". Washington Post. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
  8. ^ Jump up to:a b "Tenth of December by George Saunders wins inaugural Folio Prize 2014" (PDF). Folio Prize. March 10, 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 11, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
  9. ^ "Booker winner took 20 years to write". bbc.com. October 18, 2017.
  10. ^ Dankowski, Terra (September 1, 2022). "Newsmaker: George Saunders". American Libraries. Retrieved September 25, 2022.
  11. ^ Jump up to:a b Miller, Laura (April 26, 2000). "Knuckle-puller makes good". Salon.com. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
  12. ^ Childers, Doug (July 1, 2000). "The Wag Chats with George Saunders". The Wag. Retrieved June 4, 2007.
  13. ^ Jump up to:a b c Enslin, Rob (May 24, 2022). "Writing a Legacy". Syracuse University. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
  14. ^ "George Saunders – Cultivating Thought". June 3, 2016. Archived from the original on June 3, 2016. Retrieved October 19, 2017.
  15. ^ "Ayn Rand is for children". Salon.com. January 19, 2013. Retrieved August 11, 2014.
  16. ^ Jump up to:a b Moore, Sophia (November 16, 2022). "George Saunders talks teaching, life experience and writing at Alumni Academy". The Daily Orange. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
  17. ^ Silverblatt, Michael (December 27, 2007). "George Saunders: The Braindead Megaphone". Bookworm. KCRW. Retrieved September 25, 2022.
  18. ^ Saunders, George. "God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut". Amazon. Retrieved June 4, 2007.
  19. ^ Whitney, Joel. "Dig the Hole: An Interview with George Saunders". Archived from the original on March 12, 2007. Retrieved June 1, 2007.
  20. ^ Vollmer, Matthew. "'Knowable in the Smallest Fragment': An Interview with George Saunders". Retrieved June 1, 2007.
  21. ^ Bemis, Alec Hanley (May 10, 2006). "Mean Snacks and Monkey Shit". LA Weekly. pp. 12–27. Archived from the original on September 4, 2006. Retrieved June 4, 2007.
  22. ^ "Winners and Finalists Database". ASME. Archived from the original on October 10, 2018. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  23. ^ "The Falls". The New Yorker.
  24. ^ "The O. Henry Prize Stories".
  25. ^ "George Saunders". newyorker.com. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
  26. ^ Clark, Judi. "George Saunders". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
  27. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation". Retrieved October 18, 2017.
  28. ^ "George Saunders". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
  29. ^ "The Story Prize - Winners & Finalists 2012". Archived from the original on April 15, 2015. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  30. ^ "Commcomm". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
  31. ^ Staff (April 14, 2009). "The American Academy Of Arts And Letters Announces 2009 Literature Award Winners" (PDF) (Press release). New York: American Academy of Arts and Letters. Retrieved October 19, 2017.
  32. ^ "2009 Literature Award Winners". artsandletters.org. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
  33. ^ "Press Releases". American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
  34. ^ "Past Award Winners". penfaulkner.org. PEN/Faulkner. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
  35. ^ "The 2014 Folio Prize Shortlist is Announced". Folio Prize. February 10, 2014. Retrieved February 13, 2014.
  36. ^ Wood, Gaby (February 10, 2014). "Folio Prize 2013: The Americans are coming, but not the ones we were expecting". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on February 11, 2014. Retrieved February 13, 2014.
  37. ^ "2013 National Book Award". nationalbook.org.
  38. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2013". New York Times. 2013. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
  39. ^ Lovell, Joel (January 3, 2013). "George Saunders Just Wrote The Best Book You'll Read This Year". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
  40. ^ "Bram Stoker Award 2011 Nominees". Locus Magazine. 2012. Retrieved May 2, 2012.
  41. ^ "2018 Newly Elected Members – American Academy of Arts and Letters". artsandletters.org. Retrieved September 24, 2018.
  42. ^ Boll, Carol (March 9, 2018). "George Saunders Elected to Academy of Arts and Letters". SU News. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
  43. ^ "#14: I Can Speak!™ by George Saunders". Retrieved September 24, 2018.
  44. ^ "On George Saunders: "The Barber's Unhappiness" and "I CAN SPEAK!"". Retrieved September 24, 2018.
  45. ^ "Excerpts from McSweeney's Quarterly: Four Institutional Monologues".
  46. ^ "'Fox 8' by George Saunders: A fantastical tale from the Man Booker winner | Books | the Guardian". TheGuardian.com. Archived from the original on January 17, 2018. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  47. ^ Preston, Alex (November 27, 2018). "Fox 8 by George Saunders review – wisdom in the woods". The Guardian. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
  48. ^ "Aphoristic essay on brown paper Chipotle bag". June 3, 2016. Archived from the original on June 3, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2022.
  49. ^ Promotional chapbook of essays, limited to 500 copies to accompany the book In persuasion nation.
  50. ^ Convocation speech delivered at Syracuse University for the class of 2013
  51. ^ Online version is titled "Who are all these Trump supporters?".
  52. ^ Sehgal, Parul (January 12, 2021). "George Saunders Conducts a Cheery Class on Fiction's Possibilities". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 25, 2021.

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예장통합 총회 결의 따라 성소수자 배제 중인 서울장신대…"학교가 학생에게 동성애 차별·혐오 요구하는 것"

기자명 나수진 기자   승인 2023.02.15

[뉴스앤조이-나수진 기자] 이유진 씨(가명)는 모태신앙으로 30년 가까이 교회를 다녔다. 여성 목회를 해 보고 싶었던 그는 지난해 말 서울장신대학교(황해국 총장) 신학대학원에 응시했다. 이 씨는 대학원에 합격했지만, 등록을 하지 않았다. 아니 '못' 했다. 개강 3주를 앞두고 황당한 일을 겪었기 때문이다.

서울장신대는 합격자에게 신입생 오리엔테이션을 안내하며 '서약서'를 제출하라고 했다. 서약서에는 "입학 전 또는 재학 시 성경에 위배되는 동성애를 지지하거나 동성애자로 판명될 시에는 퇴학을 포함한 어떠한 처벌도 감수하겠다"는 내용이 담겨 있었다. 게다가 본인뿐만 아니라 보호자도 주소 등 신상 정보를 기재하고 이 내용에 서약하도록 했다. 대학원 모집요강 어디에도 나와 있지 않은 절차였다.

성소수자인 이유진 씨는 결국 신학대학원 등록을 포기했다. 한국에서 목사 안수를 받고, 여성 목회를 해 보겠다는 꿈도 접었다. 이 씨는 "신학대학원에 입학하기 위해 지난 1년간 열심히 준비했다. 담임목사님에게 허락도 받고, 노회 추천서를 받기 위해 면접도 봤다. 그런 절차를 모두 밟아 합격했는데, 말도 안 되는 서약서를 요구하는 학교에서 신학을 공부할 수는 없다"고 말했다.

서울장신대학교 신학대학원에 합격한 이유진 씨가 성소수자 입학을 제한하는 학교 방침 탓에 뒤늦게 등록을 포기했다. 사진 출처 서울장신대학교 홈페이지


대한예수교장로회 통합(예장통합·이순창 총회장)에 속한 서울장신대는 2019년부터 교단 목회자 양성 전문 과정인 신학대학원 교역학 석사(M.div) 입학생에 한해 위 서약서를 받고 있다. 신학과·목회사역학과·사회복지학과·교회음악과·실용음악과가 있는 학부는 성소수자라고 해서 응시 자격에 제한을 두지 않는다. 학부 입학생들도 유사한 서약서를 제출하지만 동성애 관련 조항은 빠져 있다.

서울장신대뿐만 아니라 나머지 예장통합 직영 신학대학교 6곳도 동성애자 및 동성애 옹호자의 입학을 제한하고 있다. 서울장신대처럼 모집 요강에는 없지만 서약서를 받거나, 신입생 모집 요강 중 응시 자격에 '동성애자가 아닌 자'를 명시하고 있다. 2017년 예장통합 102회 총회가 "성경에 위배하는 동성애자나 동성애 옹호자는 (교단 소속) 7개 신학대 입학을 불허한다"고 결의했기 때문이다.

이듬해 5월에는 장로회신학대학교 학생들이 성소수자 혐오·차별에 반대하는 의미로 '무지개 행동'을 벌였다. 그러자 103회 총회는 동성애자·지지자의 목사 고시 응시를 제한하는 결의를 하기도 했다. 교단법을 내세우며 이 같은 차별 조항이 생기도록 앞장선 장본인은 고만호 목사(여수은파교회)인데, 정작 자신은 세습을 금지하는 교단법을 어기고 아들에게 교회를 물려준 뒤 교단을 탈퇴했다.

예장통합 7개 신학교는 총회 결의에 따라 학칙·정관을 규정했다. 장로회신학대학교는 2018년부터 반동성애 관련 '입학 서약서'를 받기 시작했다. '총회의 동성애에 관한 결의에 반하는 행위를 한 학생'은 징계할 수 있다고 학칙을 개정했다. 호남신학대학교는 2019년부터 신학대학원 모집 요강에 '동성애자 입학 금지'를 명시하고, 학부 모집 요강에도 "성경에 위배되는 동성애자가 아니어야 한다. 따라서 이에 위배된 사실이 확인되면 입학을 취소할 수 있다"는 '기타 유의 사항'을 덧붙였다. 호남신학대학교는 신학대학교 중 처음으로 학부와 신학대학원 모두 동성애자의 입학을 제한했다.

'동성애자 판명 시 어떠한 처벌도 감수하겠다'는 서약 내용은 입학생 본인과 보호자 모두 동의해야 한다. 뉴스앤조이 자료 사진


 
이유진 씨는 부당한 서약서 내용을 보고 입학을 포기했다고 말했다. 그는 "개강 3주 전 거의 통보받듯이 서약서를 내야 한다는 사실을 알게 됐다. 성소수자 입학을 제한한다는 것을 알았다면 아마 지원조차 하지 않았을 것이다. 게다가 성소수자로 적발될 시 퇴학당할 수 있다는 내용을 부모님에게까지 보증하게 하는 건 도저히 납득할 수 없다"고 했다. 이어 "모태신앙으로 교회에서 30년간 신앙생활을 해 왔다. 이렇게까지 비인도적으로 입장을 밝혀야 하는 게 이해되지 않고, 이해하고 싶지도 않다"고 말했다.

이와 관련해 서울장신대 측은 어쩔 수 없다는 반응을 보였다. 학생처 관계자는 2월 15일 기자와의 통화에서 "총회 결의 이후, 반동성애와 관련해 교육하고 (입시 과정에) 동성애자 입학 금지 항목을 넣으라는 내용으로 공문이 내려왔다. 교단 소속 목회자를 위탁 교육하는 신학교로서는 총회 지침을 따를 수밖에 없다"면서 규정을 바꾸려면 교단이 먼저 나서야 한다고 말했다. 응시 자격 제한을 모집 요강에 명시하지 않았다는 지적에 대해서는 "목회자 후보생이라면 교단이 (동성애와 관련해) 어떤 입장을 가지고 있는지 모르지 않을 텐데, 처음 들었다고 이야기하는 것은 이해되지 않는다"고 했다.

서울장신대 신학대학원장 정병준 교수도 총회 지침을 준수할 수밖에 없다고 말했다. 그는 "개인의 양심이나 신념의 문제가 제도의 문제와 충돌하게 돼 학교로서도 난처하다"면서 "개인적으로는 학교가 학생 개인의 의견을 존중하는 쪽으로 변화할 필요가 있다고 생각한다. 그러나 우리 교단은 성소수자를 사랑하는 것과 성소수자가 성직자가 되는 문제를 구별하고 있다. 아직까지 한국교회는 성소수자 목회자를 수용할 수 없는 분위기여서 쉽지 않은 문제인 것 같다"고 말했다.

예장통합 신학교들이 입학생을 대상으로 서약서를 받는 것을 두고 양심의자유를 침해하는 행위라는 비판의 목소리도 나오고 있다. 공익인권변호사모임 희망을만드는법 박한희 변호사는 교단 목회자를 양성을 위한 신학교라 하더라도 성소수자 입학을 금지해서는 안 된다고 했다. 또한 학생·보호자에게 서약서를 요구하고, 입학 제한 사항을 입학 요강을 통해 사전에 명시하지 않은 것은 문제가 될 수 있다고 했다.

박 변호사는 기자와의 통화에서 "신학교는 교단의 돈으로만 운영되는 곳이 아니지 않나. 국가보조금을 받는 학교라면, 고등교육법에 따라 차별 없이 교육하고 표현의자유·양심의자유를 보장할 의무가 있다. 아무리 총회 결의가 있었다고 하더라도, 학생들이 학교의 신념에 따르도록 강요하는 것은 헌법에 명시된 양심의자유 침해에 해당한다. (서약서 제출은) 학교가 학생들에게 동성애 차별·혐오를 요구하는 것과 다르지 않다"고 말했다.

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Daughter of Tibet: The Autobiography of Rinchen Dolma Taring 1970

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Daughter of Tibet: The Autobiography of Rinchen Dolma Taring Paperback – January 25, 1986
by Dolma Taring (Author)
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Rinchen Taring was born in 1910 in one of the oldest families in Tibet, and grew up in the close-knit world of Lhasa nobility - a Buddhist society virtually untourhced by the West. She was educated, howevr, in Darjeeling - the first Tibetan girl to speak and write English. She first married Dasang Dadul Tsarong, one time Commander-in-Chief of the Tibetan army, and later Jigme Taring, a prince of Sikkim.

Her story covers the crucial fifty years up to 1959; the freedom, pleasures and tragedies, customs and traditions of Tibetan life, all now destroyed. She recounts too her painful separation from friends and family when she escaped across the Himalayas, following the uprising against the Chinese in 1959 and the flight of the Dalai Lama.

Mrs. Taring has written a new chapter to her story, originally published in 1970, telling of her dedicated work among Tibetan refugee children and old people in India since her exile, and of her recent reunion with many of her family.

In Daughter of Tibet Mrs. Taring tells her story movingly and without artifice. She conveys throughout the humor, kindness, resilience and great faith so characteristic of her people.

324 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

Rinchen Taring was born in 1910 in one of the oldest families in Tibet. She was the first Tibetan girl to speak and write English.

328 pages
January 25, 1986


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Barbara
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Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2015

Wonderfully informative. This was a well written, heart felt book which gave so much information about life and culture in Tibet. Very honestly written. I found this woman to be incredibly kind and generous in her estimation of people. Yes, she viewed life as s a member of a high class. Aren't all of us shaped by the conditions under which we are brought up. This woman is incredibly honest and mainly just tells unvarnished stories about the fascinating events that occurred in her life.

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Ingrid Asmus
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Nicely written, but a bit nearsighted: I got a bit tired of the assumption that all servants, city and country people universally supported the hierarchy. 
I appreciated books like Across Many Mountains, which describe the lives of people in the countryside, rather more. ,

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Tenzin
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Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2019

Amazing story of an incredible human, her family, her country, and the combined struggle. Recommend for anyone interested in modern Tibetan history pre-1959 to post-1959, recommend for anyone interested in strong Tibetan woman leaders, recommend for anyone interested in the details of Tibetan culture in old Tibet (pre-1959).


Melanie Mueller
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Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2001

Daughter of Tibet provides a rare glimpse into the Tibetan culture prior to the Chinese takeover in the 1950s, courtesy of Mary-la, Rinchen Dolma Taring, whom I had the pleasure to meet in the early 1970s in Mussoorie, India. For those with the ability to temporarily discard the trappings of Western culture, Taring guides the way to learning about everyday Tibetan life, Tibetan politics and that which permeates everything Tibetan, Buddhism. The reader is transported to that magical "Land of the Snows" where, amid the harsh environment, a cheerful, hospitable, learned and deeply religious people flourished. 

A must-read for anyone interested in Tibet and its current sorrow.

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The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth Paperback – 1 January 2018
by Sri Aurobindo (Author)
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This volume comprises all of Sri Aurobindo's shorter prose writings on Yoga and philosophy written after 1910 and published during his lifetime. 
The present edition differs from the first (Centenary) edition in several respects. The contents have been ordered to follow strictly the arrangement of the material as it was issued by Sri Aurobindo in his lifetime.
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The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth

The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth

The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth

Sri Aurobindo wrote these eight essays, his last prose writings, in 1949 and 1950 for publication in the quarterly Bulletin of Physical Education (at present called the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education). 

They reveal a vision which includes the perfection of the body as an instrument of the action of the spirit, the nature and structure of a divine body and the conditions and operations of its life on earth, the manifestation of a supramental truth-consciousness as the basis for a divine life upon earth, and the creation of a new humanity possessed of a mind of light.

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Author: Sri Aurobindo

Print Length: 80 pages

Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Contributor: Krishna

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Language: English

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  • Message
  • Perfection of the Body
  • The Divine Body
  • Supermind and the Life Divine
  • Supermind and Humanity
  • Supermind in the Evolution
  • Mind of Light
  • Supermind and Mind of Light

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Mind of Light



A new humanity means for us the appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the Ignorance, a seeker after Light but not its natural possessor, open to the Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead, it would be possessed already of what could be called a mind of Light, a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its mentality would be an instrument of the Light and no longer of the Ignorance. At its highest it would be capable of passing into the supermind and from the new race would be recruited the race of supramental beings who would appear as the leaders of the evolution in earth-nature. Even, the highest manifestations of a mind of Light would be an instrumentality of the supermind, a part of it or a projection from it, a stepping beyond humanity into the superhumanity of the supramental principle. Above all, its possession would enable the human being to rise beyond the normalities of his present thinking, feeling and being into those highest powers of the mind in its self-exceedings which intervene between our mentality and supermind and can be regarded as steps leading towards the greater and more luminous principle. This advance like others in the evolution might not be reached and would naturally not be reached at one bound, but from the very beginning it would be inevitable: the pressure of the supermind creating from above out of itself the mind of Light would compel this certainty of the eventual outcome. The first gleamings of the new Light would carry in themselves the seed of its highest flamings; even in the first beginnings, the certainty of their topmost powers would be there; for this is the constant story of each evolutionary emergence: the principle of its highest perfection lies concealed in the involution which precedes and necessitates the evolution of the secret principle.

For throughout the story of evolution there are two complementary aspects which constitute its action and are necessary to its totality; there is hidden in the involution of Nature the secret power and principle of being which lies concealed under the veil cast on it by material Nature and there is carried in that Nature itself the inevitable force of the principle compelling the process of emergence of its inherent powers and characters, the essential features which constitute its reality. 

As the evolutionary principle emerges, there are also two constant features of the process of the emergence: there are the gradations by which it climbs out of the involution and manifests more and more of its power, its possibilities, the force of the Godhead within it, and there is a constant manifestation of all types and forms of its being which are the visible, indicative and efficient embodiments of its essential nature. There appear in the evolutionary process organised forms and activities of Matter, the types of life and the living beings, the types of mind and the thinking beings, the luminosities and greatnesses of the spiritual principle and the spiritual beings whose nature, character, personality, mark the stages of the ascent towards the highest heights of the evolution and the ultimate largest manifestation of what it is in itself and must become by the force of time and the all-revealing Spirit. This is the real sense and drive of what we see as evolution: the multiplication and variation of forms is only the means of its process. Each gradation contains the possibility and the certainty of the grades beyond it: the emergence of more and more developed forms and powers points to more perfected forms and greater powers beyond them, and each emergence of consciousness and the conscious beings proper to it enables the rise to a greater consciousness beyond and the greater order of beings up to the ultimate godheads of which Nature is striving and is destined to show herself capable. Matter developed its organised forms until it became capable of embodying living organisms; then life rose from the subconscience of the plant into conscious animal formations and through them to the thinking life of man. Mind founded in life developed intellect, developed its types of knowledge and ignorance, truth and error till it reached the spiritual perception and illumination and now can see as in a glass dimly the possibility of supermind and a truth-conscious existence. In this inevitable ascent the mind of Light is a gradation, an inevitable stage. As an evolving principle it will mark a stage in the human ascent and evolve a new type of human being; this development must carry in it an ascending gradation of its own powers and types of an ascending humanity which will embody more and more the turn towards spirituality, capacity for Light, a climb towards a divinised manhood and the divine life.

In the birth of the mind of Light and its ascension into its own recognisable self and its true status and right province there must be, in the very nature of things as they are and very nature of the evolutionary process as it is at present, two stages. In the first, we can see the mind of Light gathering itself out of the Ignorance, assembling its constituent elements, building up its shapes and types, however imperfect at first, and pushing them towards perfection till it can cross the border of the Ignorance and appear in the Light, in its own Light. In the second stage we can see it developing itself in that greater natural light, taking its higher shapes and forms till it joins the supermind and lives as its subordinate portion or its delegate. In each of these stages it will define its own grades and manifest the order of its beings who will embody it and give to it a realised life. Thus there will be built up, first, even in the Ignorance itself, the possibility of a human ascent towards a divine living; then there will be, by the illumination of this mind of Light in the greater realisation of what may be called a gnostic mentality, in a transformation of the human being, even before the supermind is reached, even in the earth-consciousness and in a humanity transformed, an illumined divine life.

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Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Release date: 03-11-2015
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Publisher: Sounds True
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Have you ever dreamed of creating more passion and fulfillment in your relationships without losing your spiritual life or sense of self in the process? According to clinical psychologist Charlotte Kasl, 
the keys to love that we're all looking for are the same ones that mystics and sages have used for centuries to open their hearts to the world around them.

Rich with insights from the Buddhist, Sufi, and Quaker traditions, If the Buddha Were in Love is a road map for anyone seeking to transform their relationships into the spiritual adventures of a lifetime. 

Join this best-selling author of If Buddha Married to explore a variety of practical insights and topics, including:

  • The nine bonds of intimacy essential to every couple
  • The chemistry - and mystery - of sexual attraction
  • Lies we tell ourselves - how to get honest with yourself on the path of love
  • The fear of intimacy and other obstacles to true connection
And more


Enriched with many insights from Dr. Kasl's own professional practice, If the Buddha Were in Love is a welcome guide for everyone seeking to transform a relationship into a true spiritual partnership.
©2001 Charlotte Sophia Kasl (P)2001 Charlotte Sophia Kasl
Love, Dating & AttractionBuddhism

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IF THE BUDDHA WERE IN LOVE: The Spiritual Guide to Love and Intimacy
Charlotte Kasl, , read by the author. . Sounds True, $29.95
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Written in part as a response to that ubiquitous relationship guide, The Rules, this latest from psychotherapist and workshop leader Charlotte Kasl (Women, Sex, and Addiction)
aims "to give people another way to think about meeting and coming together." 

Claiming the point of all relationships is to help each other become our "biggest selves," Kasl, drawing upon major tenets of the Sufi, Quaker and Buddhist spiritual traditions, stresses the importance of self-awareness and responsibility in any successful pairing. 

Loaded with anecdotal evidence gleaned from 27 years of professional experience working alongside couples, and read with poise, warmth and humor, 
Kasl insightfully advises on noticing our "attachments," or expectations, 
and what common traits all "long-term loving couples" share, such as spontaneous praise. 

In addition, she probes red flag behaviors to look for in ourselves (hoping mate will change, fear of bringing up issues) and in others (jealousy, blaming and ongoing addictions).

 While some may be slightly put off by Kasl's frequent New-Agey references to a "universal energy," her sympathetic-sounding voice and genuinely practical strategies will endear her to most listeners. 

Cassettes are conveniently divided into specific "sessions," including 
  • "Conflict Resolution," 
  • "The I-Thou Relationship" and 
  • "Sexuality," 
which makes it easy to return to a particularly helpful segment or to stop to complete an exercise, while lending a workshop feeling to the audio experience. (May)



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I really enjoyed listening to this book, the content and the vocal tone, attitude and cadence felt like a snuggly caring embrace by a fire. So much awareness and acceptance of human nature yet also spot on guidance and poignant examples. It is full of grounded knowledge and practical info. Should be required reading for anyone romantically involved or hoping to be. Following what’s in this book could really help a lot of people be happier and that would lead to the world being a better place.

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Insight full!

Enjoyed Charlotte's look into intimate relationships.
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Paula Sisson
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This tape hit a chord with me. If you are ready to accept that problems are half your fault and you really do want to stay with your partner, this tape might hit a chord with you too. She gives lots of techniques and approaches that are sensible, to me anyway. The examples of couples she uses to exemplify problems (wow that sounds just like so-in-so) and possible solutions are wonderful. 
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Many Roads One Journey: Moving Beyond the Twelve Steps Paperback – 17 June 1992
by Charlotte S Kasl (Author)
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From the author of Women, Sex, and Addiction, a timely and controversial second look at 12-Step programs, helping all readers to draw on the steps' underlying wisdom, adapting them to their own experiences, beliefs, and sources of strength.



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""Many Roads, One Journey" is a pioneering work with a depth of insight and social consciousness that are rare in the addiction field, which all too often seeks simple answers for complex problems. Kasl's 16 steps for empowerment and her re-framing of codependency as Internalized oppression are gifts for "all" women." -- "Stephanie Covington, Ph.D., author of Leaving the Enchanted

 Forest""Dynamically moving beyond learned helplessness and the marketplace of fear, Dr. Kasl's courageous new book offers readers real choices-diverse empowerment alternatives for achieving and maintaining a high quality of life in recovery. This Is an essential and groundbreaking work." -- "James Christopher, founder and executive director of Secular Organizations for Sobriety/Save Our Selves (SOS), and author of How to Stay Sober and SOS Sobriety"


About the Author

Charlotte D. Kasl is a social activist and a psychologist at the forefront of the empowerment movement sweeping the recovery field. She lectures and leads workshops in the United States and abroad and lives near Missoula, MT.


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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Perennial; 1st edition (17 June 1992)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages



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5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE THIS BOOK.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 21 December 2022
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I was working a 12 step programme not for substance abuse but rather ' behavioural addiction.' As a survivor of domestic violence and other abuse I felt very triggered often and felt like the perpetrators should be working these steps!!! As one review mentions: 'The 12-step programme is great for calculating, manipulative, sociopathic / narcissistic male abusers and completely inappropriate for victimised women. ' I fully agree!!! :)

This book helped me to stop shaming myself and see that I have to find other avenues for my recovery. The only thing I like about the 12 steps is the fellows!! I have met many amazing women in fellowship!


 
Jeff
4.0 out of 5 stars Capitalism and Addiction
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 9 August 2017
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There is a lot of good to be said for this book, because the author focuses on the Christian foundations of AA which can be very troublesome for those of us who do not believe in a "sky god." 

That said, she tends to be too judgmental about 12-step programs by not acknowledging that each group is autonomous and that the function of the 12 Steps, Traditions and Concepts is to keep everyone from wandering away from the core concepts of the program. 

There are plenty of people who "translate" the words that trouble them into their own language so that they can focus on the spiritual core of the program. I've not finished the book yet but I do have to weigh in on the author's stress on the words 'patriarchy' and 'hierarchy'.

 I realize that this book was written in 1992, when these words were used very often to bash evil men over the head. I didn't agree with that then and I still don't agree with it. Kasl barely touches on the root problem: capitalism. 

I don't know if she ever read Marx's Capital or not but I think she would find that studying Marx would be very productive. Bruce Alexander wrote The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit in 2008 and I recommend it highly. 
He draws some very interesting parallels between the spread of capitalism as an economic system and the soaring rates of addiction that really can't be ignored. 

I think Kasl's book was wonderful at the time it was written and it is still very useful for those who have issues with 12-step programs, but she hasn't really gotten to the root of the problem, which is capitalism. 

I will stress that, unlike so many "progressives", I don't blame anyone but ourselves for our predicament. As Pogo said many years ago, "We have met the enemy and he is us." It is up to each one of us to re-connect with a larger community. 

Capitalism destroys community and because humans are social animals, that destruction of community leads to addiction. 12-step programs are a useful beginning, but they are not the entire answer and I do think that Kasl recognizes that. 

I just wish that she had written her book from a Marxist perspective and hadn't focused on the 'hierarchy' and 'patriarchy' bogeymen. Women are not saints - they are just as susceptible to hierarchy and patriarchy as men. Many women are codependents, if you will, of capitalism. We are all in this together.

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Jay
5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you inspirational and affirming
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Wow what a fantastic book, after 14 years of attending 12 step fellowships and a deep sense of feeling stuck in a box for years, i read this book. It puts into words all that I have felt and experienced. I like the fact that it seems rational and that it doesn't slate the whole AA/NA thing... but just voices a more measured way of thinking.
Tired of feeling disempowered and labelled a failure, despite years of sobriety for not agreeing with all of the dogma, I am finally free and ready to grow in a much more wholesome way. I love the truth and spirit. This book makes me realise my thinking and confidence, (not encouraged) in 12 step fellowships, has been on the money for years.
I only regret I didn't find this book after five years of recovery, unfortunately it took further years and work on myself to stand strong and believe in my own thinking, rather than staying a victim to the outdated and scientifically unsound approach of 12 step recovery. Charlotte Kasl, I salute you.
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ID
5.0 out of 5 stars Revolutionary & more white people in recovery ought to read this book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 20 March 2021
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Interesting review from Jeff. Just say you're a man who doesn't want to be held accountable & go!

Are capitalism, patriarchy, homophobia & racism, sexism & misogynoir, not one?

I wish more people, white & Black, & particularly white in 12 step recovery would read this book.

There is no recovery without facing the roles & experiences we all have living in this ism ridden society.
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Victoria Davies
3.0 out of 5 stars This is fine but not a basis of a book that denegrates ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 27 November 2016
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Not what I was hoping for. The book is interesting, introducing a fair chunk of feminist history/thinking, but is written mainly on the premise that some people don't find what they want/need in the rooms of 12 step fellowships and that this is principally because of its patriarchal, self punishing bent. 

This is fine but not a basis of a book that denegrates 12 step recovery. It works for millions of people, just because it doesn't work for some doesn't mean it doesn't work. I am lucky to live somewhere where people are free to discover to their own path in AA and there is a prevailing attitude of live and let live. I understand this is not the same everywhere. But it didnt just happen - people made it happen by challenging the status quo when it was dominated by old men who thought they knew best. Also I find that a lot of therapists and writers, this author included, take the view that if AA etc worked people wouldn't still keep going when they've been sober for years, decades. News flash: if they didn't, the meetings wouldn't exist. I got some ideas from it but won't be using it as a recovery workbook.
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RE
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended Research
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Balanced analysis of recovery models currently in use. Thought- provoking look at multiple viewpoints. Especially beneficial for those who question the path they’re currently on...
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Fredrika Spiewak
5.0 out of 5 stars Get this book if you feel any doubt about the 12 step programs of recovery
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 3 October 2016
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Dr. Kasl's book awakened in me the nature of the the discomfort i was feeling about 12 step recovery programs. Her work, although bit dated, is well worth the read for someone whose own ethics clash with the 12 step model of recovery. I have not had a drink for over 40 years. I stopped meetings for at least 18 years with no descent back into drinking i.e. I had a satisfying life as a student learning my way to a PhD in Depth Psychology. I rejoined AA out of loneliness when school ended and found the meetings run by white male good old boys. My education led me to some different conclusions about the 12 step model, and Dr. Kasl's work validated my strong feelings. Her book is well researched and I highly recommend it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Recovery alternatives
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 12 November 2020
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About 1/2 way through this one. It’s got some practical tips for recovery programs and sums them up quite well
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JayTEE
5.0 out of 5 stars
 A must for addicted women who don't 'get' AA / NA
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 24 February 2009
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I can't put it into better words than 'A Customer' already has. If you are a woman drinking off the back of the pain of trauma, abuse, neglect, shame, or guilt, being told you don't 'get' the programme or you're not working it properly and worst of all being encouraged to feel MORE shame and told you must make amends to the people you have harmed is just more abuse. The 12-step programme is great for calculating, manipulative, sociopathic / narcissistic male abusers and completely inappropriate for victimised women. This book resonated with every criticism I ever had of the 12-step programme and was a life saver. Again, I only wish I had found it sooner.
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Helen Mahoney
5.0 out of 5 stars 
The book has a lot of things to relate to when doing a group session with patients.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 22 November 2020
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