The Naked Mind

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EXCUSES Man is the content of média which bring the global village' into our home. Such an influence is inescapable. If our eyes and ears are open, we must react with emotional and rational resonance. My resonances went into a little blank book that I received from a friend a few years ago for this very purpose. Slowly they filled a book, went overboard and ended in this volume. They are presented here in the same chronological order as they came into my mind. They represent my conviction at the time I wrote them, sometimes just a frivolous flash of a sense of humor. Their scope is unspecified, global. The seemingly unconnected statements, in sum, present a skeptical, yet positive worldview. Of course, the newness of many ideas can be disputed. Advanced cultures existed prior to writing. We cannot say that somé views of Greek philosophers had been unfamiliar to the Minoan people, as somé postulates of Moses to Akhenaten, the monotheist Pharaoh, or somé points of Shakespeare to earlier poets. Similarity is not identity when inspired by new situations and presented in new form. Laying open one's thoughts is more autobiographical than any chain of episodes. Hence the title of this book. As I am the victim of a rather prudish upbringing, I feel safer to hide under a pen-name. Therefore I must leave equally anonymous the critics of my manuscript to whom I feel deeply indebted. Peri Sive Vissza