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	<description>A solid foundation for products of the spirit.  By Wael Al-Mahdi</description>
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		<title>أمسّي على ذكراك. تأليف وائل المهدي</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[انا امسّي على ذكراك. واصبّح على عِلمك. وبعد ما النوم يبعدني. يحلق ذهني بحلمك. يحيّي ربي محياك. ويرسّيني على حبك. وكل ما تبحر ايامي. تقرِّب قلبي بقلبك. نسيت ذاتي قبل مانساك. وفهمتني قبل لافهمك. هديتك ضلعي يا ضلعي. قبل لايظمني يظمك. تسلّي قلبي ويسلاك. تقاطع دربي بدربك. عليك الله ما تقاطعني. وقربي يزيد من قربك. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>حبيبتي عفيفة هالتها الخجل</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ تأليف:  وائل المهدي (2012) حبيبتي عفيفة هالتها الخجل&#8230;&#8230;لكنها تلهنمي بأروع الزجل تدوم فرحتي بها مادمتُ متصل&#8230;&#8230;.تصبُ في خواطري كلامَها العسل أذكرها صبحاً مساءً فهي منيتي&#8230;&#8230;.وإن تغيبُ ليلةً تَغرَورِقُ المُقل بسمتُها مشرقةٌ كالشمس في ضُحى&#8230;&#8230;.حديثها منسّقٌ كالعزفِ ينتقل عزيزتي ماذا فعلتِ بنُهى الفتى؟&#8230;&#8230;فعقلُه مكبلٌ والقلبُ معتقل بريقُها مشعشعٌ في كبِد السما&#8230;&#8230;.تخجلُ منها الزُهرةُ ويستحى زُحل الوردُ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holding Fast to My Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By:  Wael Al-Mahdi (2012) &#160; Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. ~ Erich Fromm &#160; My Faith, she walketh by my side She frees my soul of every care A sense of light shall here abide The  scent of spring is everywhere. &#160; The [...]]]></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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