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Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven't because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. In her previous book, The Well-Trained Mind, the author provided a road map of classical education for parents wishing to home-school their children, and that book is now the premier resource for home-schoolers.

During this talk, Iron John author Robert Bly gives a delicate and lively view of the fantastic flowering of feeling in 12th century Provence. The feeling thought, developed from Arabic, Gnostic, and Albigensian sources, blossoms as love poetry famous at that time. In this recording, Bly distinguishes between the literal mode, the psychological mode, and the mythological mode, and locates the “Amor” or ecstatic love in the latter, which led to Sufism among the Arabs.

Today’s saturation of comic book content makes it almost impossible to keep track of it all. Whether you want to know the difference between Daredevil and Batman, or you’re ready to throw down with your viewpoint on comics in social media, the My Big Fat Pull List Trio of professional comic geeks will give YOU the education to deal in BIG to make FAT stacks in the game of pop culture superfandom! This is My Big Fat Pull List!