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The Spirit Has Two Wings

Long before I came to California I was aware of it as a center of spiritual life in many forms.  When we had landed in Edmonton in 1956, our first house was on 92nd Street, near the disreputable part of downtown. I had my bed in the attic.  There, in a closet, I found a stackContinue reading “The Spirit Has Two Wings”

Posted byBas van Fraassen01/01/2021Posted inUncategorizedTags:Bhagavad Gita, Latin mass, Vedanta1 Comment on The Spirit Has Two Wings

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  • Significs: the dreamer
  • You Can’t Fall Off a Mountain
  • Lost in Pronunciation
  • A memory of Frederick Fitch (re: Heaven)
  • 1956
  • Force
  • Slipping in and out of music
  • A gentle, lucid spirit …
  • Memorie dal Silenzio
  • When I was nine
  • Rock Mass in Adelaide
  • Harvard Stars
  • Death and the Maiden
  • The Gentle Art of Parody
  • Etruscan Places
  • Ghosts in New York City
  • Climbing, with minor fateful decisions
  • Calvino, the fragility of memory
  • Grunbaum and Popper
  • In the rock I trust
  • The last eyes to see
  • Hollywood and the baroni dell’università
  • Writers in seclusion
  • The Spirit Has Two Wings
  • A Razor’s Edge
  • Students
  • Californians
  • Yosemite and Cuisine
  • The Prima Donnas (2)
  • The Prima Donnas (1)
  • The Slav-Makedon
  • One or Two Saints, More or Less
  • The Unveiling of Marx Hall
  • The 1960s Connecticut Metaphysicians
  • Parachuting (mis)adventures
  • Sir Alfred Ayer
  • Teaching when young
  • The Great Eclipse of 1979
  • Meeting Michael Scriven
  • Unlikely Places
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