Voices of Today

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/ltswr The Hunting of the Snark An Agony in Eight Fits By Lewis Carroll Read by Denis Daly Step into a world where logic loosens its grip and language begins to shimmer with delightful uncertainty. In this audio version of Lewis Carroll's classic nonsense tale, listeners are invited aboard an impossible voyage in search of a creature that may — or may not — exist. Led by a Bellman and accompanied by a most peculiar crew, the expedition unfolds through playful verse, absurd encounters, and a growing sense of unease. What seems to begin as nonsense gradually deepens into something stranger: a meditation on meaning, pursuit, and the fragile line between certainty and disappearance. Will the Snark be found? And if it is… what might happen?

The complete audio is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0H3CC6Y47 Dynamic Thought or The Law of Vibrant Energy By William Walker Atkinson Narrated by Denis Daly William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) was an author and publisher of texts covering a wide range of New Thought teachings. According to Atkinson, the idea of 'Dynamic Thought' underlies the entire universe and is the cause of all phenomena. Not only is everything that we see as Life and Mind and Substance an illustration of the Law, but even that which lies back of these things must provide evidence of the same Law. The author describes this volume as "an odd book." He states that his aim is to present a union of "Ancient Occult Teachings" with the most current discoveries in science at the time. As in most of Atkinson's works, there is much discussion of the hidden powers of the mind, with a particular emphasis on the operation of thought in realms outside the physical. While much of the science espoused by Atkinson has been either discredited or superseded, for example, the concept of the "ether," his basic thesis of the essential uniformity of the primary forces of nature remains intriguingly compelling.

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0H3CJM5LZ The Scholar Gypsy By Matthew Arnold Narrated by Denis Daly Matthew Arnold, poet, critic, and by profession a school inspector, was embedded in the world of Victorian academic tradition. His verse and essays display fears that the stability of traditional ways was under threat from the uncertainty of modernity. In this poem, Arnold tells the story of an Oxford student who abandons academic life to join a band of gypsies. He learns their mysterious, almost magical, and clearly unacademic knowledge and devotes himself to a lifelong quest for direct perception of truth. Unlike the people with whom the poet is surrounded, he never becomes distracted or challenged by corrosive doubt or concern about the trivialities of suburban life.

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0H3BJ38VX Songs of Kabir Translated by Rabindranath Tagore With an Introduction by Evelyn Underhill Narrated by Denis Daly Although Kabir (1398-1448, or in the Samvat calendar 1440-1518) was born of Mohammedan parentage, in his youth he became a disciple of a noted Hindu ascetic, Ramananda. As a spiritual teacher, he decried the meaningless rituals of both Islam and Hinduism, and preached a path of righteousness, which involved respect toward all things in creation, and detachment from worldly preoccupations. While his teaching provoked hostility from both Muslims and Hindus, after his death each religion claimed him as a saint. While his devotional poetry is inspired by the works of the great Persian mystics, Attar, Sadi, Rumi, and Hafiz, Kabir's vocabulary and thought are saturated with the concepts of classical Brahmanism.

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/kz3zzn Miscellaneous Poems By Percy Bysshe Shelley Narrated by Denis Daly This collection of 59 short poems consists of verses, some of them incomplete, which remained unpublished at the time of Shelley’s death. Some of them have become the best known of Shelley’s shorter works. The poems were collated and edited by Mary Shelley, who also wrote an introduction to the collection, which contains some biographical material and commentary on the poems.

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/Promptness-and-Other-Errors-Audiobook/B0H2KBK9QR Promptness and Other Errors By Otto Handley Read by Lyndal Curran Doolan This surreal collection of vignettes explores a world where linear time and logic have fractured, replaced by a state of "administrative continuation" where life moves sideways rather than forward. The narrative personifies the mundane, granting agency and existential dread to everyday objects like toasters, bus signs, and office printers, all of which struggle to perform their functions in a reality devoid of human purpose. Central characters like Arthur act as anchors of presence, stabilising a city that is rehearsing its own existence amidst flickering streetlamps and clouds named after misunderstandings. Ultimately, the text depicts a shift from meaningful progress to a hollow, bureaucratic drift, where the burden of justification is lifted because stopping would require more paperwork than simply carrying on.

Infinite Lubricity The Fluid of Salvation (Greasepolis, Book 9) By Otto Handley Narrated by Gregory Dwyer In the surreal academic landscape of Tumbarumba, history professor Stella Pontifex discovers that grease is not merely a culinary byproduct but a metaphysical archive of human memory. As the world suffers from “The Great Sizzle” and a subsequent “thinning” of reality known as attenuation, Stella is contacted by the spirits of legendary Grease Prophets like Frank and Glen. These apparitions warn her that corporate interests and a fanatical cult, the Way of Dryness, are draining the universe of its viscosity and historical depth. To prevent existence from becoming a brittle, unseasoned husk, Stella must travel through bureaucratic afterlives and commercialised voids to understand how to preserve cosmic lubricity. Ultimately, she becomes a quiet custodian of memory, using her scholarly discipline to mend the shimmering currents of a world threatened by spiritual evaporation.

The Myth of the Resurrection and Other Essays By Joseph McCabe Narrated by Oberon Michaels In one of his most celebrated assertions the Apostle Paul wrote: “And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised; If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.” (From 1 Corinthians 15) In this collection of essays skeptical scholar Joseph McCabe examines three contentious issues related to the assertions of the apostle: - The historicity of the Resurrection - The historicity of Jesus - The rapid spread of Christianity Using the tools of historical analysis, McCabe concludes that the claims about both the identity and resurrection of Jesus rest on shaky ground, and that myths about dying and rising gods occur frequently in pre-Christian history.

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:| voicesoftoday.net/alg Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes by Adam Lindsay Gordon Narrated by Roger Parish Although the history of Australian verse dates back to early colonial times, one of the first genuinely antipodean poetic voices was that of Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833 – 1870). During his short and tragic life, Gordon published two volumes of verse, the second of which was Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes, which appeared in the year of his death. Although Gordon's verse varies widely in quality, and occasionally descends into rank banality, it also contains many lines of great power. Gordon was a skilled and adventurous horseman, and several of the poems relate to horses and horse riding.