After nearly two years serving as an equal partner outside of the bedroom and a quivering submissive inside it, I was no longer sure what fell inside and outside the realm of "OK".
In Tea with a Warlord, political scientist Fotini Christia gives us a look inside the realms of Afghanistan's powerful warlords.
Her journey takes us everywhere in the best possible way as she probes the limits of our efforts to explain through science and through history—how the world works inside and outside the realm of our agency, purposes and reasoning". "Riskin's book begins with Descartes and automata and traces the development of ideas about what animates living things up to the present.
According to the first one we live on the crust, but there is another world on the inside where lies - some say - the realm of Agartha, the home of the King of the World (see, for example, the fantasies of French philosopher René Guénon).
Is the wrathful voice inside her somewhere in the realm of imaginary friendship, or is she schizophrenic?
"As we pull out of Afghanistan, it behooves us to work with Russia, the central Asian Republics, and those anti-Taliban elements inside Afghanistan, to ensure that the realm of radical Islamic terrorism will not dramatically expand its power base and thus pose an even greater threat to the good people of the world," he said in a press release issued Sunday.
For all the real-world vanguard technologies packed inside, this magic bus may remain parked in the realm of fantasy.
It's the realm of who you are inside -- your emotional awareness, your values, secret desires and goals, your capacity for love, empathy, generosity, and your deeper sense of purpose; of what you're living for, especially when the external world is not so pleasant or predictable.
To explain, your inner life is the realm of who you really are, on the inside.
