Book Reviews by Delia O’Riordan
Destiny | Miss Garnet’s Angel 2 The mystical and the mundane live cheek by jowl in Venice in an intimacy unmatched anyplace else. Salley Vickers, the author of Miss Garnet’s Angel, captures the layered personality of Venice in parallel stories that unfold contrapuntally gradually advancing toward the grand reconciliation between dream and reality, innocence...
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Destiny | Miss Garnet’s Angel Julia Garnet is sixty years old, emotionally repressed, sexually inexperienced and has spent her life in almost sacrificial frugality. She is also the amazed heir to her former – even more frugal – housemate’s legacy. Harriet seems to have had a secret: a genius for investment! Who knew? Certainly...
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Psychic Choices New Thought Movment What is the New Thought Movement? The New Thought Movement actually began in the middle of the 19th century in America but the concepts that it embraced had originated in Vedic India: the idea of an “Over-soul” or unified consciousness, the idea that all material existence was an illusion...
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Psychic Synchronicity Aphrodite’s Hat Who could possibly anticipate that Aphrodite, the term Misdemeanour, a besieged dragon and an excess of spinach would all come together in an orgy of synchronicity in the space of one day? Well, that’s my weekend so far. When such unlikely things come together in one place, it’s a sure...
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Psychic Toxins How do our thoughts affect the quality of our lives? For the most part, our thoughts seem to be random. We interact with the world randomly through our senses and our brains sort out the useful information from the “chaff” or “mind junk” that passes through our consciousness barely making a ripple....
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Who’s Afraid Of Friday The 13th? Are you superstitious about Friday the 13th? You’ll probably say no but think about it for a minute. Are you at all hesitant to do the things you wouldn’t give a second thought to on other days? Are you more alert and careful when driving on Friday the...
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Psychic Readings And Belief In Angels Do you believe in Angels? I can honestly say that I do but not those saccharine confections that one sees hovering over two impossibly virtuous-looking children as they cross over a turbulent stream, as in the sentimental image at left. No, the Angels I find beleivable are creatures...
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Desiderata Of Happiness Every once in a while a gentle and quiet voice emerges from the cacophony of the workaday world to remind us of who we are. Compared with the era of my youth, there are far more such voices now but very few that speak with the palpable sincerity and spiritual authority...
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Psychic Reading Hidden Self We all have a hidden Self, or more accurately, several aspects of our personalities that we keep submerged most of the time. These submerged elements of ourselves are very important because amongst them areburied memories of the person we were born to be. Most adults do not have memories of...
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Psychic Disturbance Sexual Aggression I recently devoted a post to the appalling sexual aggression of mobs of men harassing and assaulting women in Tahrir Square in Cairo as symptomatic of a world-wide reality that the majority of women face everyday, a form of Psychic Disturbance that induces fear and anxiety. I ‘get’ that it...
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