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To: Jill who wrote (14806)	11/11/2000 10:25:52 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 65232

Yes, yes, yes! Great article. re books...that would take a while. Bland owns over 5,000 books on every conceivable subject...Aby Warburg is one of his heroes. His favorite novelists would be Tolstoy, Proust, and P.G. Wodehouse, in roughly that order. Well, maybe Wodehouse ahead of Proust. His favorite poets would be Shakespeare, Shelley, and Yves Bonnefoy. Carl Jung and Milton Erickson are his favorite writers in psychology. Bland has a strong antiquarian bent and collects rareties in the field of mythology and ancient religion. He is currently reading "The Rivers of Faith", for example, by General Forlong, an amazing look at the underlying uniformity of religious beliefs, practices, rituals, and symbols throughout human history. A. B. Cook's three part "Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religions", Jane Harrison's "Themis" and "Prologemena to the Study of Greek Religion", Farnell's "Cults of the Greek City States" are books Bland would never want to part with. Henry Corbin has grown, over years of increasing study and familiarity, to be one of his very favorite writers, but he is difficult and his material is fairly obscure and alien to today's world. Edward Hall's anthropological books on rhythm and space in human interaction opened bland's eyes to a whole new way of seeing the immediate world we live in. Timothy Perper on the human mating dance as well. Robert Becker, "The Body Electric", a fascinating, frustrating, tragic, inspiring book, in bland's opinion. Robert Ornstein's popular books on the human brain and consciousness. John Barrow's "The Artful Universe". Birdwhistle's papers on Kinesics. Rupert Sheldrake. It's hard to narrow down the various fields, much less the authors! Bland has scarcely scratched the surface... Bland's strongest fundamental interests revolve around the human imagination and its response to the world around and within it. All forms of culture, and science as a supreme extension of imaginative activity (this sounds like a contradiction but it really isn't).

To: Jill who wrote (14806)	11/12/2000 12:55:30 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 65232

Hi Jill, >>""There’s nothing that's neutral," said Dr. Jonathan Bzargh, a psychologist at New York University who has taken the lead in recent studies of how emotional evaluations tinge perception. "We have yet to find something the mind regards with complete impartiality, without at least a mild judgment of liking or disliking." "<< I'll say my tired old mantra one more time........ Perception is reality..... regardless of the facts. Thank you very much. Ö¿Ö Tim@perceivinguncertainty&alackofconfidenceinthemarket.com