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Hiking With Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

From Powell's website: John Kaag’s Hiking With Nietzsche (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is a tale of two philosophical journeys – one made by Kaag as an introspective young man of 19, the other 17 years later, in radically different circumstances. Bold, intimate, and rich with insight, Hiking With Nietzsche is about defeating complacency, balancing sanity and madness, and coming to grips with the unobtainable. Preorder a signed edition of Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are

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The Wisdom of Sun Ra: Music, Myth, and the Altered Destiny

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

Sun Ra was many things: master jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, as well as an activist, philosopher, and poet. He was also one of the world’s great, if unacknowledged, Mythologists. His work, an expansive space music built on a poetics of the ancient, was intended to transform the consciousness of the people of planet Earth. “My job,” he said “is to change five billion people to something else”. The Human Race needed an alternate destiny – a better world initiated by way of Music, Poetry, and Myth. This was Sun Ra’s offering.  In this Delve we explore the life, work, and poetics of Sun Ra in search of the altered destiny he professed.   A curated selection of Sun Ra’s music will be provided and a portion…

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