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	<description>A solid foundation for products of the spirit.  By Wael Al-Mahdi</description>
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		<title>الوعي باللاوعي:  نظرة شخصية إلى أفكار كارل يونغ</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[الوعي باللاوعي:  نظرة شخصية إلى أفكار كارل يونغ الجزء الأول وائل المهدي مقدمة تتناول هذه الوريقات القصيرة أفكار العالم كارل يونغ الرئيسية، وخصوصاً أفكاره كما يمكن تطبيقها في فهم الأدب  من ناحية، والنظر إلى الأحداث العامة من ناحية أخرى، وليس فقط من ناحية الصحة أو المرض النفسييَن.  يجب أن ألفت نظر القارئ أولاً إلى أنني [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sea Winds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Wael Al-Mahdi (2011).  A poem inspired by an oft recurring dream theme.  It is a picture, frozen in words, of one aspect of a prolific unconscious. &#160; My constant affliction -which seizes with sere conscience A poet&#8217;s soul; when the sun, at its zenith, and the night, in recess Ghastly images unfold, like chapters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nietzsche the Suffering Atheist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[      By Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) &#8220;The Jinn are dead.&#8221; Much has been made of Nietzsche&#8217;s &#8220;God is dead&#8221; statement, with people misunderstanding it more often than not.  Many have taken it as a direct affront on God, a lèse majesté, a statement of vile, filthy godlessness, and also as a call for all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting the Good Fight against the Unconscious</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 12:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) &#8220;There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.&#8221; –Albert Camus Here&#8217;s  a maddening thought:  as we speak, there are obscure psychological processes going on in your mind the nature of which is completely mysterious to you.  In our age of scientific certainty, this is what is most irritating about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Things I learned from Nietzsche</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) Why does philosophy appear so difficult?  I think one of the biggest reasons is that it&#8217;s not written for clarity.  Either the author is adopting an outdated style or he&#8217;s intentionally complicating a relatively simple concept because people generally dismiss simple concepts.  Apparently many philosophers had the feeling, be it conscious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aphorisms under Siege أمثال في زمن الحصار</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) وائل المهدي &#8220;Truth is what you have to sacrifice the most for&#8221; In a time of social and psychic derangement, where the individual as well as society are crushed by unknown inner forces, there is nothing for the thinking man to do but to vivisect pieces of his living self, stuff them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mithraism and the Unconscious as Enemy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The tauroctony &#8211; Mithras slays the bull of the unconscious while looking towards Sol Invictus. By Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) Carl Gustav Jung drove home to us the reality that myth in a collective sense, and dreams in an individual sense, are reflections of the unconscious.  He stated plainly that dreams, along with other myths [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teddy Bear shot with Revovler.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Some Thoughts on the Existence of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) &#8220;They ask you about the soul.  Say:  the soul is an affair of my Lord.&#8221;  -Holy Qur&#8217;an I, and many other people, may tend to think about God in terms of existence or non-existence, as if he was a physical entity.  Surely, I cannot prove to you that God exists the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>التغيير وروحية العصر في العالم العربي</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[التغيير وروحية العصر في العالم العربي    Change and the Zeitgeist in the Arab World   وائل المهدي (2010)   Wael Al-Mahdi, 2010     في خضم التغيرات التاريخية الأخيرة في الوطن العربي، بالأخص في مصر، أثار المتخصصون والعامّة على حدٍ سواء تساؤلات كثيرة حول أصل هذه التغيرات ووجهتها المُحتملة.  وتماماً كما يتكلم الاقتصاديون عن الاقتصاد الكلي والاقتصاد الجزئي، [...]]]></description>
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