About the Iconic River of Bliss

If you want to know what something is you need to hold in mind what it is at its best. So, taking for example, healing or loving, we don’t look at degraded forms of healing — eg a quack — or loving — someone who cares in exchange for money — and try to build up our understanding of healing or loving out of them, but the reverse, we look at a perfect case of true healing or actual love, and understand the deficient cases as a falling away, or a failure to achieve the best. So let’s take as our...

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John R. Pierce Jump to navigation Jump to search John Robinson Pierce (27 March 1910 – 2 April 2002), was an American engineer and author. He worked extensively in the fields of radio communication, microwave technology, computer music, psychoacoustics, and science fiction. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he earned his PhD from Caltech, and died in Palo Alto, California from complications of Parkinson's Disease. Contents [hide] Books Articles Talks Literature See ...

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