Comments on Original Faith: Book Note: Original Faith Available . . .

LIARA, thank you -

2008-07-16T21:06:00.000-04:00

LIARA, thank you -

Congratulations on such a great accomplishment.

2008-07-16T02:54:00.000-04:00

Congratulations on such a great accomplishment.

VINCENT - Great! And using the quote's fine -I've ...

2008-07-14T10:33:00.000-04:00

VINCENT - Great! And using the quote's fine -

I've actually been pretty sure you'd like it because it's based closely on experience and I've tried not to let my concepts stray far from experience.

You could say they exist just as a kind of ordering mechanism or packaging for experience - to make it more memorable and portable, so to speak.

Original Faith has just been delivered to me here ...

2008-07-14T08:11:00.000-04:00

Original Faith has just been delivered to me here in England, from Frankfurt in Germany (via amazon.com)

I'm pretty impressed already. May I quote this, from your Introduction, as a kind of trailer for your readers who have not yet ordered?

Meaning in life is learning to swim and how water feels against the skin. It is feeling what it's like to go with the flow and what it's like to struggle against strong currents. It is knowing water as our own element: from out of which we were born, into which we can live, and into which we are to die wonderingly.

Magnificent.

KIMIAM, thanks so much. I'll be interested in your...

2008-07-08T10:05:00.000-04:00

KIMIAM, thanks so much. I'll be interested in your reaction if you get the chance.

Paul, this is on my summer reading list. Congratul...

2008-07-08T00:34:00.000-04:00

Paul, this is on my summer reading list. Congratulations.

KESHI, thanks, MISTI hope you like it.

2008-07-07T16:14:00.000-04:00

KESHI, thanks, MISTI hope you like it.

hehe, amazon just shipped mine. feels like i'm wai...

2008-07-07T07:42:00.000-04:00

hehe, amazon just shipped mine. feels like i'm waiting for that present under the christmas tree.

Good on ya Paul!btw my Update is up :)Keshi.

2008-07-06T22:53:00.000-04:00

Good on ya Paul!

btw my Update is up :)

Keshi.

HAYDEN: I feel the same way -FIREBIRD: I'm glad! G...

2008-07-06T22:51:00.000-04:00

HAYDEN: I feel the same way -

FIREBIRD: I'm glad! Good to see you.

Whoa! A little birdie told me to check and see if...

2008-07-06T19:52:00.000-04:00

Whoa! A little birdie told me to check and see if the book was out yet--gonna fly right to Amazon and get it!

Congrats, you must be so thrilled!

I have a guilty love for Amazon. Guilty because I...

2008-07-05T22:07:00.000-04:00

I have a guilty love for Amazon. Guilty because I know it is part of the reason the good independents continue to go belly-up. Love because they have it ALL, and ship promptly.

VISHESH: I know... I don't get it either. And as I...

2008-07-04T23:40:00.000-04:00

VISHESH: I know... I don't get it either. And as I understand it, the way it is now is that if you order a book from US Amazon in India, you have to pay as much for the postage as for the book. I wonder if the dollar will end up dropping enough to make US Amazon more feasible there?

CARRIE: Great! This is fun. I'm glad I decided to do this post even though the site revisions weren't ready yet - that should be done by Wednesday.

CONGRATULATIONS!I'm on my way over to Amazon righ...

2008-07-04T19:10:00.000-04:00

CONGRATULATIONS!

I'm on my way over to Amazon right this minute!

love.

hmm...don't they have tie ups with some Indian sit...

2008-07-04T12:34:00.000-04:00

hmm...don't they have tie ups with some Indian sites? as you said i think we have more english speakers than a lot of countries put together...after all english is my country's link language :)

MISTI and HAYDEN, great, and thanks for your feedb...

2008-07-04T10:33:00.000-04:00

MISTI and HAYDEN, great, and thanks for your feedback.

Misti, interesting to know it's even possible to get a book from the US to Singapore that fast.

Amazon's the world's largest online book retailer - I feel good about their security. My sister has ordered just about every book she's read from there for years.

Hayden, from what I understand (and from me and my sister's purchases there) that's how it usually is inside the US - they're very prompt.

Thanks again to both of you, it's good to get feedback on orders, especially when we're just getting started.

thanks Paul for the clarification. Their 'bot say...

2008-07-04T00:47:00.000-04:00

thanks Paul for the clarification. Their 'bot says it will be here next week.

July 31, 2008 - August 20, 2008whoopee! that's whe...

2008-07-03T17:20:00.000-04:00

July 31, 2008 - August 20, 2008
whoopee! that's when i'll be getting my copy. decided to order it myself instead of going through my friend. did all the keying in just now. a little phobic about credit card numbers but anyway, i shouldn't be too paranoid.
don't know why it will take that long. standard delivery was supposed to be a little faster. anyway, it's okay. i'm just happy i'm going to get it finally, after the long wait. :D
(i'll just imagine a squiggle somewhere as your signature, lol!)

VINCENT, also, please do read “shortly” instead of...

2008-07-03T16:57:00.000-04:00

VINCENT, also, please do read “shortly” instead of shorty” in my previous comment – I really have no idea how tall you are, lol...

I’m hoping that from beginning to end it will be much clearer because of the level of organization and development of material that a book allows for.

CRYSTAL: Yes, there’s no problem for anyone in the US getting the book through Amazon – I suspect not Canada either. And once we have it in stock with Amazon UK, it will be as easy from there.

I’m glad you’re getting it. I find that I have specific personal reasons for hoping that many of the people I’ve met online will read it – and it’s funny you coming in right after Vincent. Because with the two of you, it’s similar. I’ve often had the feeling you’ve each been trying to figure just where I’m coming from and I've been well aware that I haven’t been able to be as clear as I’d like.

Now you’ll know exactly! And I’ll definitely continue the blog.

Paul, I just ordered your book at Amazon - encount...

2008-07-03T13:45:00.000-04:00

Paul, I just ordered your book at Amazon - encountered no problems :)

You are going to keep blogging, aren't you?

VINCENT, a quick note - book is taking so long to ...

2008-07-03T13:07:00.000-04:00

VINCENT, a quick note - book is taking so long to get to you because you're in UK and it's not in stock there yet. However, it will be available at Amazon.co.uk shorty - we'll link to it then.

Please read "may" instead of "my" in the above com...

2008-07-03T12:57:00.000-04:00

Please read "may" instead of "my" in the above comment.

I've ordered, but Amazon says it may take up to a ...

2008-07-03T12:56:00.000-04:00

I've ordered, but Amazon says it may take up to a month to arrive. I wait impatiently, ready to argue with your every word, but unable to do so till it arrives. And with a feeling also that there may not be much to argue against either. the only thing I have every found to argue about here is where you were starting from, not where you were going to. And in a sense, the start point has always seemed to be a peculiarly American viewpoint on life and religion. For which neither you, nor any American, can be blamed. We cannot choose where we are born, nor the ideas imprinted upon us in our early years.

But from discussions here over many months, I feel that the end-point will be more universal! My it be influential, a turning-point, part of the solution, a signpost!

MISTI: I really appreciate you taking the trouble ...

2008-07-03T09:57:00.000-04:00

MISTI: I really appreciate you taking the trouble to do that. Someone in India sounded like they'd end up having to take that kind of route too - through friends.

So where's the "global economy" when you need it?? Glad you can get it anyway. It just sounds like if people are in eastern countries they have to go through quite a bit of bother or pay a lot of postage.

You know, I haven't had a chance to figure out if that can work - signing books. The basic problem is that I can't sign anything by myself (can't even pay my own bills anymore). My honest best guess is that it won't end up being feasible.

My handwriting was bad enough even when I was well; you'd probably just have been going "So what's this little black squiggle thing?" even if could have done it...

HAYDEN: I'll sound Buddhist here to say:

There is no "here" that isn't "there..."

That is, at this point you can only order it online from Amazon, Target, or, if you're a librarian, WorldCat - although actually I think that just links to Amazon too. My links in this post all link to those sites.

Oh - now I think I see what you mean. Like when the site's revised, maybe then there'd be a here that isn't there?

But no...

And thanks --

PAULINE, thanks, and I hope so. Thing is, I figure the people who need to read it most are least likely. Take George Bush. What are the odds?

That must be why the world keeps doing things badly. The wrong people are reading books...

(It must be hard to tell, but I'm not really a historian...)

congratulations! what an achievement!

2008-07-03T06:56:00.000-04:00

congratulations! what an achievement!