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Greetings! My name is Hyatt Carter and I'm your host. On this website I explore the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne. To access the Process Philosophy section, click on the button immediately above.As I add them, you will also find a variety of essays on other topics by clicking on the Essays button. I will also be promoting my new book, as described below. Announcing the publication Thinking Is the Best Way to
Travel:
The adventures of ideas Go to the bottom of this page to see Front Cover of book:
Click on the buttons at the top of this
page to read:
To order from the publisher,
888-280-7715 To order a signed copy, contact me: hyattcarter@aol.com Cost: $18.95 + (S & H)
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Hyatt Carter I welcome emails at: HyattCarter@aol.com
Note: another new book, The Unity of Being by Charles Hartshorne, edited by Randall Auxier and Hyatt Carter, is forthcoming from Open Court. This is Hartshorne’s Harvard dissertation, presented in 1923 for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The picture of the Earth on my Front Cover is the NASA photo known as The Blue Marble. * *
* Readers Comments about
Of course, I recognize many of the themes and ideas from your website. Still, it’s much more satisfying to have them presented in a book that one can kick back with. I was impressed with the production values of your publisher. The binding is good and the layout is attractive. The best thing about the book is that it is enjoyable to read. It proceeds at a measured pace, without tight, convoluted thinking that one has to fight his way through. I like the cadence; it has a nice pace and rhythm. Also, the fact that the chapters are disjoint is good for a person like myself who likes skipping around. You are in fact an excellent writer. I have discovered some of my favorite topics—flow, logic and Zen—and also discovered several new things, mostly of a religious nature or miscellaneous biographical details. Thanks for creating such an interesting book. It gives one the sense of a life spent in thoughtful reading and reflection. I envy you the clarity of your vision. As a would-be phenomenologist, I appreciate the value of personal perspective as our primary unique contribution to this world. Unfortunately, my perspectives never crystallize into something as coherent as yours. W. K. M., Huntsville, Alabama *** I liken your book to God’s luring us along often surprising and unexpected paths to better destinations than we had dreamed of. You do that with your readers—I suppose especially for those who have no background in process thought. I even liken your book to what I felt when I first stood on the rim of the Grand Canyon and felt a grandeur that I couldn’t well express, or perhaps understand. At any rate, your Thinking Is the Best Way to Travel is wonder-full. May it sell well, in addition to enlightening much for many! C. A. A., Spring Hill, Florida *** The day I received your book I sat down and browsed for a
considerable time in your Ken Wilber essay about the Four Quadrants. I recalled
that your essay [which you showed to me when you first wrote it] was more
understandable for me than Wilber’s writings himself. So it was fun to jump into
it again, though I confess I didn’t read it start to finish just yet. I just
sampled here and there and everywhere. I surely do not know the proper words (if there are any) to describe the grand feeling of “well-being” that I have experienced after reading your “work of art”; this book also gives the reader a renewed feeling of hope, realizing that there are a few thinkers yet on our planet who can see things straight and have the ability and the courage to share their blessing with us. To praise your book after having read it, what came to my mind is that: we have not read a book until we have read this book. I will be ready shortly to read this masterpiece a second time, and assimilate it more deeply. My daughter Cornelia from Toronto will visit me this coming September, she has a superb mind, I have chosen her to receive the additional book I obtained from you. Congratulations, Mr. Carter, for your great work and great achievement. F. S. P., Los Angeles, California Some readers of this review may know Hyatt Carter as the creator of that wonderful website dedicated to the process thought of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne. Alas, that site is no more, but more than 100 pages of the best material from it are in this book. Here you have a painless introduction into this revolutionary new view of the world which is congruent with quantum physics and much more. But that covers only a third of this book of essays which sees the world from a unitary and creative perspective and life as an ongoing adventure. Those who know something of New Thought will be intrigued by Carter’s revision of Religion Science which takes it out of the era of Newton into the era of Einstein, without sacrificing its value and impact. I think Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religion Science, would be pleased. So if you want to travel with a companion who can tell you about Goethe’s way of discovery, which you can apply; Ken Wilber’s model of reality, which has practical aspects for our life; the way of Flow, ditto on the practical; juggling as a metaphor for life, and so much more, this book is it. But don’t kid yourself. If you want all this to take, to become part of your character, you’ll need to continue your travels with the many wonderful books quoted and listed here. B. H., Lviv, Ukraine *** Thanks for the material you sent, but of course your book
is much more interesting, and I have learned much from it. In the end, as your
book shows, there are so many routes to travel, but there is, for whatever
reason, a root dialectic at work between the threefold and fourfold. I’ll pass
on the extra copy to a friend and ex-colleague who is the President of the
Joseph Conrad Society ***
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