Greetings, Friendlies!
For years I’ve threatened to host a book club bringing Dhamma folks together to read non-Dhamma books. Particularly CogScience-y books.
The dream is manifest. Behold: Tiny Book Club! Just two people, just one book. For the first iteration kalyana-Darrell and I will read Iain McGilchrist’s The Master and His Emissary, a substantial tome exploring the science and philosophy of hemisphere specialization. The book is not written through a dhammic-lens, but we’ll be reading it through one. And that’s where the magic happens.
The great thing about Tiny Book Club, if I may proselytise, is that it is roughly 2,993.8% harder to coordinate three people’s schedules than to coordinate two people’s schedules. And reading only one book means Tiny Book Clubs can form and dissolve and shift and rearrange; I find someone who wants to read a book I want to read and, voila! One more Tiny Book Club on the calendar.
Darrell and I are recording our discussions; we’ll probably turn them into a series for the podcast. But I thought it worth broadcasting about in any case; maybe you’ll all start Tiny Book Clubs of your own.
With friendliness!
Dharma PhD 
3 replies on “Tiny Book Club”
Really interesting book. I might suggest a follow up too “What Happens in Mindfulness”, by John Teasdale.
Teasdale references McGilcrest’s work.
Re M and E, maybe “citta” and “manos”.
As an interesting reference, consider Bodhi, SN 12:61, paragraph 3, page 769, footnote 154
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YESSSS. You’ve recommended What Happens to me I think… also Romek, if they’re reading comments…
We have finished the first half of Chapter 2. It will be a bit before we’re finished. 😹
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