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Very nice first chapter, I have been reading it for about a week, picking away at bunches of pages of the first chapter. Overall takeaways: the 4 components of being mindful (body, feeling, emotion, mind’s objects), learned about how to meditate (pg 40), the importance of practicing meditation to help with mediating moments with proficiency, and the purpose of meditation being to supports one’s clarity.

Long time no see, been doing exams and wrapping up school therefore lack of reading and good reads updates. Learned more about the parallel between poems and dreams in this chapter.

So far the past two chapters a recount of Jung, Freud and other influential psychologists/psychiatrists in the field of psychology. Specifically looking at ego and the unconscious. Very nice background so far!

Learned a lot about logotherapy

Learned so much about how prisoners live in a concentration camp such as the idea of art being done in concentration camps. While the tone of the chapter is not somber the conceptualization and realty of the holocaust still is to say the least.

Very somber and grime telling of the holocaust through the eyes of the a prisoner in Auschwitz’s. This perspective has educated me on the horrors of the holocaust.

Not much to say. This chapter talked a lot about examples of crimes and the punishments that occurred from them.

Took a while to read this book. It was a long chapter primarily giving examples of how diseases have been perceived with regards to their origin throughout time. Unfortunately I am unsure of the overall message from all these examples but i found it interesting to learn about the current scientific understanding of these diseases!

Interesting chapter focusing on our (in)ability the change. I found myself agreeing with many of the points presented through the biological backgrounds they arise from. Overall fascinating read in the chapter, I learned a lot about the brain and the images used in this chapter help clarify my comprehension!

Meh not much to say about this chapter, it took me a longer time to read since I found the material abit more dry. This chapter focused on theism and atheism and the implication of whether having everyone as an atheist will cause damage to the good to man kind.

Overall a mix of confusion and fascinating topics covered throughout this chapter. What specifically sticks out is the application of quantum determinism to the area of neurology/neurochemistry. I found this a refreshing take on neurochemistry! Towards the end of the chapter the author gave well needed reviews about the chapter and summaries of the first half the book. I found these review helpful for consolidation.

Nice change of pace in this chapter. Has more of a quantum focus which was digestible as well as fascinating to learn about. Overall very satisfying chapter!

Similar to previous entry, at times got confused and had hard time conceptualizing ideas being conveyed. Luckily last page had a very straight forward summary of the chapter clearing points that confused me.

Pretty cool half don’t understand what he is saying specifically but I can get the general idea of what he is trying to communicate and where he is going with it the ideas I’m interpreting!