The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way.
In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted readers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Oprah's Book Club is hugely influential, and a recent NEA survey reveals an actual uptick in the reading of literary fiction. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that reading is, first and foremost, good for you--the intellectual equivalent of eating your Brussels sprouts. For such people, indeed for all readers, Jacobs offers some simple, powerful, and much needed advice: read at whim, read what gives you delight, and do so without shame, whether it be Stephen King or the King James Version of the Bible. In contrast to the more methodical approach of Mortimer Adler's classic How to Read a Book (1940), Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices.
Invitingly written, with equal measures of wit and erudition, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction will appeal to all readers, whether they be novices looking for direction or old hands seeking to recapture the pleasures of reading they first experienced as children.
Achievers have a huge appetite for reading because they know the benefits of knowledge
Readers of all ages will benefit from reading! From reading for leisure to literacy education, reading helps to improve our mind and our thinking.
Here are a list of things which can be improved through reading: Exercises the Brain, Improve one's Concentration and Ability to Focus,
Increases General Knowledge and Literacy, provide a Form of Entertainment, Reduces Stress and increase Motivation, Teaches Empathy and Sets Positive Examples,
and Reading can also Improve Sleep.
Physical Immortality
Just think about it, the longer you live, the more time you have to enjoy reading!
Physical immortality concerns the ability to live forever, in a physical form, while maintaining conscious thought and avoiding death.
Immortality is the basis for the concept of eternal life. Immortality is the idea that human beings can continue to live indefinitely, a
continuation of our mental, spiritual, as well as our physical existence.
Physical Immortality : The Science of Everlasting Life
You are already immortal, unless you prove otherwise. Your physical body will forever destroy it. The belief that death is inevitable is unhealthy for humans: the idea of physical immortality produces quantum jumps in mental and physical health. Breath mastery is the key to health, happiness and wisdom. The citadel of death and violence and war is the belief that death is inevitable. To question the thought that death is to unshackle the human mind and produce a new experience of mental divinity. This experience can be perpetuated by daily practices and spiritual purification. ~
Leonard D. Orr (Author)
Breaking the Death Habit : The Science of Everlasting Life
Breaking the Death Habit is a statement of the incredible, the miraculous—the crack in the cosmic riddle; yet it is presented here as a set of simple and obvious life instructions. ~
Leonard D. Orr (Author)
Dissolve The Problem: by Shifting Physical Reality
Why solve a problem when you can dissolve it?
In Dissolve The Problem, bestselling author and spiritual explorer Richard Dotts tackles one of the most pertinent aspects of everyday living—how to deal with the myriad of “problems” that we face in our daily lives.
Be it financial, health, relationship, family or career problems, Richard puts forth the groundbreaking premise that some problems are so persistent in our lives precisely because we have attempted to “solve” and analyze them for so long. In the process, we have inevitably come to identify ourselves as inseparable from these various issues in our life.
