You are making me feel competent with tech stuff! I think I just did what you wanted to do…move the Genesis reading to the Reading section for 1/9 Cafe page?
Heh, heh, heh … you are, and will certainly remain, miles ahead of me on this tech stuff, young man.
Now, I do get the linking stuff, but I would have loved to have added that nice little YouTube window that John provided here over there on the other page. It’s not only an eye-catcher, it plays in place (doesn’t open a new tab). (Is this done by using the “upload” function in the menu instead of the linking one? Ah, there’s so much I need to learn and probably won’t.)
But, nevertheless, thanks!
You basically typed out the instructions right there!
I updated to have the embedded video (probably should have let you practice!). I copy the link above (left click on “The Book of Genesis - Alexander…” then “copy link address”) -->go to the 1/9 Cafe page —>click edit —>and yes, click “upload” → “from the web” → paste link.
Editorial note: “probably should have made you practice!”
It looks like I’m intuiting just enough to get me into real trouble … which is, in short, the story of my life.
Thanks for your help, @Douggins. One slight emendation to your recipe. You actually don’t need to “upload”–>“from the web.” To embed a video, you only need to paste the YouTube link (this is the important part) on its own line; though the upload option obviously works as well.
Pasting in a website link on its own line will also (though not always, depending on the site) generate a preview box.
Added Huxley’s The Island to the list. Many Eastern themes and may be a relevant fictional read in tandem with Aurobindo’s stuff. Subtracted Tillich.
Unable to attend next week’s Cafe, 2/6.
Ah, the limitations of our technology …
“Liked” the post, since it clarifies and enhances the discussion, but what’s to like about the second statement? It won’t be the same without ya. Anybody know what we’ll be talking about?
Willing to try remote telepathy as I sit in a boring meeting …don’t know how Zoom will record that.
What about a chapter from The Extended Mind?
What’s that? Has that been mentioned before? I guess I missed something … again.
Thanks for the correction. That is the title I was thinking of. It has been mentioned many times, and the chapter 1 Myers would be a great start. As I recall at least three of us who are planning to be there have the book already.
Thanks for sorting this. You have to know that as an old guy, I get really confused really easily.
I’d be up for it. Synchronistically, I’ve been plowing through my reading program on this very text. (I’m about halfway through the last chapter.) I must say, I’m rather impressed by the professionalism of Kelley and his co-authors and with the sobriety and clarity with which they approaches their subjects. I also think that some engagement with Myers’ notion of the Subliminal Self would not be out of place, also (or especially) in light of our impending engagement of Aurobindo.
I agree. The Subliminal Self is crucial to understanding what the heck the paranormal is all about. Which chapter works best? Shall we start at the beginning?
It does lay the groundwork for what is being explored in the rest of the book. That’d work for me, but what does everyone else think?
So that would be:
Irreducible Mind, Chapter 1: A View from the Mainstream: Contemporary Cognitive Neuroscience and the Consciousness Debates
?
I could do that. I have a still-shiny new copy of the book right here beside me.
Let’s make it happen. I gather we are all agreed?