Forest Books

Dear friends, As many of you know, Forest Books was forced to be closed for three months do to the Covid crisis. There was no income for that time and it will be nearly impossible to recoup the rent. If you could donate to help me cover the rent for that period, it will keep Forest Books from closing. We've been open serving the public for 32 years. Please help if you possibly can. https://www.gofundme.com/f/rent-relief-for-covid-closure-fo

EDUCATION AND FASCISM--Carl Jung's chilling warning about how the death of the humanities, if not critical education, might lead to fascism is worth noting. In 1957, writing in The Undiscovered Self, Jung declared that education or its lack was at at the root of fascism, an insight that is more true than ever. He wrote: What happened not so long ago to a civilized European nation? ... the truth is that we do not know for certain whether something similar might not happen el...sewhere. It would not be surprising if it did and another nation succumbed to the infection of a uniform and one-sided idea. America ... seems to be immune because of the outspoken counterposition she has adopted, but in point of fact she is even more vulnerable than Europe since her educational system is the most influenced by the scientific Weltanschauung with its statistical truths, and her mixed population finds it difficult to strike roots in a soil that is practically without history. The historical and humanistic type of education so sorely needed in such circumstances leads, on the contrary, a Cinderella existence." See more

May this remind you that you can refresh your mind. Once outside, for instance, just look up! Cheers!

Forest Books offers the confidence of Nature to transform the history of the world.

"I have been a gardener, a farmer, all of my life and so flowering is my field of knowledge. When a human being blossoms then the fragrance of that blossoming spreads throughout their life and this perfume has a name. Love. A human life is a seed. It grows in the world of the seen. It grows in the world of what can be known by reason, described by language. But this life’s growth has its flowering in the unknown the unknowable. That flowering is called wisdom and its fragra...nce is love. The unknowable is not hidden - just missed in mind's fixation on the known. That mystery that cannot be heard by the ear, seen by the eye for it is discovered in the luminous darkness of meditation’s depths. The mind dominated by reason, logic, language can never enter the temple of the unknown for it always, and only, projects the known onto what is. The mind made silent, still, free of all chaos enters a mysterious domain - the place of human flowering. The the world of mysterious unknowability. You cannot know it you can only become it, be it. The intelligence, the methods which bring stillness and silence to the mind are the stuff of the path. When one has ceased to cling, to grasp to the known then the unknown opens its doors and the temple of the unknowable is entered. When a human being blossoms then the fragrance of that blossoming spreads throughout their life and this perfume has a name. Love. - t.k.

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Politics consists of constant activism to resist oppression, not only from government, but from even harsher private power, and to develop people’s movements to promote justice and popular control of institutions.

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On human intelligence ~ 14th Dalai Lama https://justdharma.com/s/pgcw4 Human intelligence is the source of our problems. But it would be foolish to think that the solution is to reduce intelligence. There is only one way out: we must not let our intelligence be guided by negative and harmful emotions. It must be guided only by proper and positive motivation if it is to become marvelously constructive. 14th Dalai Lama... from the book "Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be" ISBN: 978-0861711505 - https://amzn.to/2nTRfI2