This is a collection of my other, mostly earlier, writings. They began appearing in 2001 on my “secret design” geocities site. Verse dates to 1988. The intro sentence is from the first version of andrewdurham.com when I left geocities in 2009.
It also contains:
- newer writings not in my book
- writings of others
Intro
For 21 years, I combed the edges of philosophy, health, and design for clues to a sane way to live. Here I describe some of my findings.
Philosophy
- Existence Isn’t Everything rethinking Objectivism’s first axiom
- Sociality Undenied the operative principle of band society
- From Where? understanding Daniel Quinn
- Nothing to Fear, Even Fear Itself
- Free, a simple plan for freedom, as applied to a piece of land in Guatemala
- Overview of individualist government
- Individualism notes toward an individualist distributed state
Health
- Sanity and Health intro. This led to the darkness conjecture then hygienic dark retreat.
Design
- Just Living a meditation on design, 2002
- Mechanics of Mass Slavery a drive-by analysis, 2008
- Economy sane personal economy based on Tribal Housing (adjusted for inflation), 2023
- ORDO an American art of placement, 2001
- Tribal Housing a design for a full life on $250 a month, 2000
- Building a record of some things I’ve made
- Gallery photos of my projects
Art
- Myths
- Poems 1988-2001
- Lyrics 1988-1996
- The Ashers, a River, and I
By Others
- general
- Bibliography five cranial supernovas + honorable mentions
- Aphorisms: sayings especially relevant to the restful use of darkness NEW
- Jean’s Little Rules: Jean Liedloff’s rules for parents NEW
- health
- Fasting: A Prodigious Discovery by Albert Mosseri, French hygienic master, excerpted from:
- Fasting: Nature’s Best Remedy by Albert Mosseri
- Virus by Klein & Sniadach, exposing the apotheosis of germ theory, medicine’s favorite hoax NEW
- Wireless Radiation a research summary by the Naval Medical Research Institute, 1972. NEW
- True Healing Art by Russell Trall, a speech by a founder of hygiene in 1862 at the Smithsonian. PDF. NEW
- Science and Fine Art of Natural Hygiene by Herbert Shelton, his masterwork and overview of hygiene, originally Orthobionomics, Volume I of The 7 volume Hygienic System. PDF. NEW
- Orthopathy VI by Herbert Shelton, on general pathology. PDF.NEW
- Orthopathy VII by Herbert Shelton, on specific illnesses and their care. PDF. NEW
- Maharaj: A Biography of Shriman Tapasviji Maharaj, a Mahatma Who Lived for 185 Years by T S Anantha Murthy, including a report of a long dark retreat NEW
- agriculture
- Origins of Agriculture by Wadley & Martin. A stunning What if…?
- On a Green Mountain with Masanobu Fukuoka, the Sensei of Natural Farming
- design
- Links good designs to learn and sing