THE DHARMA CAVE

The Dragon's Lair

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A. Books

1. Philosophic works

a. Poison for the Heart is probably the greatest book ever written. I wanted to produce the clearest exposition of wisdom, and I think I succeeded.

Chapter headings: Ageing, Attachment, Buddhism, Cause and effect, Christianity, Concentration, Consciousness, Death, Delusion, Enlightenment, Evolution, Faith, God, Imagination, Individual, Infinite, Joy, Learning, Love, Machines, Meaning, Music/Art, Nature, Politics, Purpose, Quality, Reality, Reason, Reincarnation, Religion, Samsara, Science/Philosophy, Self, Sleep, Spiritual man, Stages of the Way, Submission, Suffering, Truth, Violence, Way, Wisdom, Woman/Man, Worldly wisdom, Writing/reading.

SAMPLE from Poison for the Heart
READ Poison for the Heart (complete)

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b. Venom Crystals is a compilation of the very best spiritual/ philosophic writings of all time. It includes the best from Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism, and the most poisonous gems of truth from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.

READ Venom Crystals (Complete) (PDF requires Acrobat Reader, if you don't already have it. To download, right click on link, then "Save target")
or in html

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c. Evil Wisdom is a compilation of the very finest works of deadly Eastern wisdom. Included are the Bhagavad Gita, the Dhammapada, the Heart Sutra, and the Tao Te Ching, as well as writings of Meister Eckhart, the magnificent Gospel of Thomas, teachings of Diogenes, awesome teachings of the Zen Master Hakuin, and the timeless Avadhuta Gita.

SAMPLE from Evil Wisdom
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or in html

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d. Essays on Illogic and Unreason is a collection of essays exposing new-age nonsense by contributors from around the globe.

SAMPLE from Essays on Illogic and Unreason

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2. Male and Female Psychology

a. Woman - all it is unwise to know about her.

This is absolutely the bravest compilation of writings about women there has ever been. And I owe them to many brave souls. To say these writings are dangerous would be an understatement. For the first time, read from the experiences of the masters, and learn all it is unwise to know about women. This compilation includes works of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Freud. There are also memorable writings from the Buddhist and Hindu philosophers, and more.

SAMPLE from Woman - all it is unwise to know about her
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or in html.

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b. Sex and Character by Otto Weininger

This book is one of the few masterpieces of modern times. Here, Weininger overflows with profound insight, deepest love, and awesome courage. To quote the eloquent author of an old book:

We have all come under the spell of Otto Weininger, even those of us who have never heard of him, for he was one of those geniuses whose ideas echo far beyond any sound that is made by their names. . .

. . . "Sex & Character" began to sell. It ran through printing after printing. It was translated into innumerable languages, and in a few years his publishers could declare with no more than pardonable exaggeration that no scientific book in the whole history of books had ever a greater success.

SAMPLE from Sex & Character
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Otto's Home Page

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c. Woman not inferior to man, by Sophia The authorship of Woman Not Inferior to Man, a pioneer feminist tract, has been attributed to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. It gives proof enough that feminism hasn't advanced one inch over the last few hundred years. If anything, modern day feminism is even more embarrassing.

SAMPLE from Woman not inferior to man
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d. Man Superior to Woman In response to Sophia's treatise, an anonymous gentleman published Man Superior to Woman, which became a best-seller of its time. This book alone proves beyond any doubt that the level of intelligence of our species has declined drastically over the last couple of hundred years.

SAMPLE from Man Superior to Woman
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Or download the plain ascii text file (in ZIP format).

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e. An Exposition for the Advanced Mind by David Quinn is a detailed investigation into the psychology of the sexes.

SAMPLE from Exposition for the Advanced Mind
(This comes as part of the "Woman" compilation above if you want to download it)

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f. The Cow Te Ching (The Cow and its Characteristics) (Complete) is a recently inspired scripture which may eclipse the great Chinese scripture The Tao Te Ching. It deals primarily with an issue not dealt with at length by other scriptures, namely the issue of Woman.

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g. The Book of Wife (Complete) is an inspired and understanding look at life, taking into account the central importance of the wife. (Serious humour, with illustrations)

h. In Defense of Women (by H.L. Mencken) (Complete) (PDF format requires Acrobat Reader. To download, right click on link, then "Save target")

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3. Poems

a. The Lovebase

A Collection of Love Poems.
- being -
An Exercise in Idealism
For the Romantic Spirit

The Lovebase is a collection of over three hundred of the very best love poems to bring fire to even the coldest of hearts, and to awaken the idealist within your soul. Categories include love's beauty, fantastic love, erotic love, immortal love, the contradictions of love, love's lies, the pain of love, and the humour of love.

SAMPLE from The Lovebase
DOWNLOAD The Lovebase (Complete, 74kb zip file, DOS version)

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4. Quotations

   a. Wit for Wisdom is a choice collection of about two thousand morsels of wisdom. Composed of: Men and women, Love, Marriage, and Assorted jewels

   b. The Thinking Man's Dictionary contains a good deal of all the definitions a thinking man should know.

   c. Power Words is a compendium of about 3,000 of the most incisive and humorous, quotes, aphorisms and witticisms.

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5. Letters

a. Letters between Enemies

There are three kinds of succession:
The inferior man succeeds the man of power.
The mediocre man succeeds his benefactor.
The superior man succeeds his enemy.

This is a collection of the letters exchanged between David Quinn and myself during the period from 1988 to 1992. They represent a record of our struggles to live a philosophic life, along with a good deal of philosophy. We feel that if others can find some inspiration from what we have written in these letters then it is our duty to make them publicly available.

SAMPLE from Letters between Enemies
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   Letters such as are written by wise men are,
   of all the words of men, in my judgment the best.
                            - Francis Bacon

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6. Travel

a. India in Black and White is a photo-journalistic foray into India. If nothing else, India stimulates the mind, and I present you here with thoughts as they occur to me.

DOWNLOAD India in Black and White (Complete, 305kb Zipped Windows Help file)

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B. The Devil's Gallery

The Devil's Gallery is a collection of six hundred and fifty images to awaken even the most lazy of minds. If the combination of graphics and aphoristic wisdom penetrate your heart any less severely than would an arrow, then I will have failed in my task. The viewer program has an extra-fast text mode and full search capability.

SAMPLE a few pictures from The Devil's Gallery
DOWNLOAD a mini-version of The Devil's Gallery (80 images (of 650), 900kb Zip file)

"Oil painting and colour are for women and the lazy." - Michelangelo

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C. Radio Programs

- Audio and Transcripts -

In 1995 David Quinn and I began broadcasting "The Hour of Judgment" on Brisbane radio. Our aim was to meet various experts in dialogue about Ultimate issues.

- THE HOUR OF JUDGMENT -

Producers and hosts: Kevin Solway and David Quinn
Technical Assistants: Paul Fillery, Ed Richardson
Research: Dan Rowden and Sue Hindmarsh
Assistants: Raymond Bergmann, Kie-Wei Choong

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Program Listing and Transcripts

1. The Nature of Reality
Guests: William Gray - Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Tuan Nuyen - Professor of Philosophy

2. Buddhism
Guests: Do-Kwang Su nim - Zen monk
Mervin Thomas - Zen practitioner

3. Christianity
Guests: Rev. Patrick Doulin - Anglican Priest
Rev. Keith Colbert. - Anglican Priest

4. The Question of Authority
Guests: Authorized Zen Master Roselyn Stone
Zen Teacher Greg Howard

5. Wisdom and Rationality
Guest: Dan Rowden - Philosopher and Poet

6. Feminism
Guests: Andrea Lanyon - Senior Research Assistant in Sociology
Leslie Jolly - Lecturer in Anthropology

7. The Nature of Woman
Guest: Suzanne Hindmarsh

8. The Priesthood
Guests: Dominic Kelly and Clyde Cosentino

9. The Nature of Existence
Guest: Mitchell Porter - Transhumanist and Internet personality.

10. Physics and Ultimate Reality
Guest: Paul Davies - Professor of Natural Philosophy, author of The Mind of God and God and the New Physics.

11. Christianity and Buddhism
Guests: Dr. Rodney Bucknell - Senior Lecturer in Studies in Religion
Reverend Dr. Apichart Branjerdporn - Uniting Church Minister

12. Sexual Fantasy
Guests: Patricia Petersen - Department of Philosophy at UQ
Gil Burgh - Department of Philosophy at UQ
Suzanne Hindmarsh - Female Thinker.

13. The Question of Sanity
Guests: Dr. Peter Cotton - Clinical Psychologist
Graham Priest - Professor of Philosophy

14. The Future of the Species
Guest: Russel Kelly - Eco-psychologist

15. The New Age
Guest: Zachary Ziamus - "Teacher of Truth"

16. Examining the Hosts
Guest host: Dan Rowden - Philosopher and poet.

17. The Banquet - a live performance of Kierkegaard's "Banquet".

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D. The Atheist Archives

The Atheist Archives is a collection of newsletters and some of the interesting correspondence of The Atheist Society of Australia. Among the correspondence are letters with Canadian naturalist David Suzuki and in-depth correspondence with Australian media personality Phillip Adams.

• A Sample from The Atheist Archives
  • The Atheist No.1 (Atheism, Machines, Religion)
  • The Atheist No.2 (Atheism, Christianity)
  • The Atheist No.3 (Science, Scholars)
  • The Atheist No.4 (Women I)
  • The Atheist No.5 (Women II)
  • Letter to David Suzuki
  • General Information on The Atheist Society

  DOWNLOAD "The Atheist" Newsletters (72kb Zipped Windows Help file)

• Talk-Back with Radio Priest Transcripts covers subjects ranging from blasphemy, overpopulation, faith, education, Buddhism, miracles and Mother's Day.

  SAMPLE from Talk-Back with Radio Priest Transcripts (5 Calls)
  DOWNLOAD Talk-Back with Radio Priest Transcripts (18 Calls, PDF file)

• Correspondence and Essays with Phillip Adams - Covering the nature of atheism and wisdom.

Atheist Society of Australia Page

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E. NewSpeak Translator

Description: Newspeak automatically edits your writing to make it:
either (a) Old Fashioned & Beautiful.
or (b) fashionable and politically correct.

Also included are
1. The Thinking Man's Reference of Politically Correct Terms
2. Essay: The New Social Canon of Political Correctness
3. The PC Manifesto (including "A PC Primer")
4. What people say and what they mean
5. Politically correct bedtime story
6. Comments on George Orwell's "1984"

SAMPLE from The Thinking Man's Reference of Politically Correct Terms
DOWNLOAD NewSpeak (Complete, 110kb .ZIP, for Windows)

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Kevin Solway: e-mail: ksolway@theabsolute.net