matthew remski Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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If the theory is reaching back to Hannah Arendt, the context is an analysis of Nazi and Stalinist totalitarianism. Additionally, it matured in a panicked rush in the 1980s in response to the extreme cult disasters at Osho’s Rajneeshpuram community in Oregon… /3

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The basic premise of The Courage to Heal, by creative writing instructors Ellen Bass and Laura Davis, is that memories of childhood abuse, especially child sexual abuse, can be recovered and articulated by survivors who are given the proper space, tools, and validation. /2

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Honoured to sit down with Kathleen Hale to discuss her riveting and compassionate new book, Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls. https://t.co/z4qKEUaR0e

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"Every allegiance to a plan of salvation apart from Him diminishes the value of His Will for you in your own mind." Her last trope is copped from the aphorism attributed to Rumi via the translation of Coleman Barks. It is famous in New Age spaces: /6

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🧵For two years, I’ve commented on @marwilliamson’s devotion to #acourseinmiracles. Stans will always ask me: BUT HAVE YOU READ HER BOOK ON POLITICS? They’re referring to A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution (2019). So I bought the book. 👀👀/1

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@ColleenDerkatch @DocMCohen Michael Anton Budd, The Sculpture Machine: Physical Culture and Body Politics in the Age of Empire (Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, 1998),

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From our Medical Medium episode script. (Episode up now.) Anthony William says that he received his "gift" at the age of 4. That's when he started talking to Spirit about why all of the adults were sick. /1 https://t.co/TyJ76ijxdw

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Honoured to sit down with Sam Binkley of Emerson to discuss his excellent book Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s. Essential stuff for understanding the political economy of wellness. h/t to @nataliapetrzela for putting me onto it! https://t.co/O1HVcQM29G

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Bloom and Moskalenko’s book is PASTELS AND PEDOPHILES: Inside the Mind of QAnon. I searched the digital ARC I got from Stanford U Press in July of 2021. Searched every keyword from MR’s tweet, and found *one* match, for “outside.” Here’s B&M’s riveting idea (147): /3

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@ColleenDerkatch @DocMCohen Joseph S Alter, Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004), 28; Mark Singleton, Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)