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Kafka’s Night

There is something calming and creative about the dead of night. The night allows consciousness to roam free from what

The beginning is the end and the end is the beginning. The reality that everything repeats in precise time cycles

Charles Fort’s remarkable 1919 book entitled The Book of the Damned details vast amounts of data about the world we

Books such as John Boyne’s 2006 novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Janusz Bardach’s 1999 memoir Man is Wolf

It is surprising how many people are happy to conform today with any Government mandate, regardless of whether it is

The phrase Tat Tvam Asi comes from the ancient Indian text, Chandogya Upanishad, and means “That Thou Art”. Hermann Hesse,

Colin Wilson’s 1967 classic psychological novel The Mind Parasites remains essential reading more than fifty years on. Researchers into mind

In George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff’s Meetings with Remarkable Men (1927), he uses the phrase “the sleep of the mind”, asserting that

What makes a book a “good read”? An obvious answer is that it must be “readable”, and the writings of

The 2014 novel In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman explores the breakdown of a cross-cultural