• Roadmap to Sustainability: Interpreting Daniel Quinn
  This new book by Doug Brown, author of Insatiable Is Not Sustainable, has been added to Daniel's recommended reading list. Check it out at Suggested Readings.
  
  (added on March 14, 2010)

• Do not be fooled by a site billing itself as New Tribal Ventures and An Ishmael Community.
  Someone is apparently using the NTV domain and material from the former NTV website without our permission and in ways that we do not condone. Please beware!
  
  (added on March 5, 2010)

• Alan Thornhill: A Letter from Washington, D.C.
  Our colleague, friend, and original webmaster for this website is embarking on an exciting new venture with an unprecedented opportunity for service to the Community of Life. We wish him all the best as he takes on this challenge. Read his letter....

  
  

  (added on February 14, 2010)

• Wikipedia "Ishmael" ripoff
  You may be getting a message from Amazon touting a "book" called "Ishmael (novel): Daniel Quinn, Ethics, Sustainability, Socratic dialogue, Mythology, Anthropocentrism, Trilogy, The Story of B, New tribalists" by Frederic P. Miller." We haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds like no bargain, being a 76 page book (selling for $51) that has been culled from Wikipedia files that are free online.
  
  (added on January 12, 2010)

• T-Shirts, caps, mugs, and more still available
  The NTV Annex at CafePress is still open--for a short time. You'll find T-shirts, baseball shirts, caps, totes, cards, and a miniature teddy bear--"Ishmael's Cousin," and other fun stuff. Check it out at The Annex.

  
  

  (added on December 16, 2009)

"There are a handful of books that are more than literature: they are polished gems of wisdom. Tales of Adam is the latest of them....Short, pithy and ageless...Quinn crafts his narrative with a diamond-cutter's care....Here is wisdom for the ages, for all ages..."--Santa Fe New Mexican

• Pan Earth: a site dedicated to a scientific, holistic approach to world problems (and population in particular).

• Read Ishmael: a site created by Quinn readers to reach out to other prospective readers.

• Friends of Ishmael Society: find local groups (and more).

• IshCon: another reader-created site. It's not active now, but conversations, plus information and photos about the conferences they organized, are archived and available for viewing.

• IshThink: an active reader-created discussion site. It's main purpose--to give people a forum to explore feelings and thoughts engendered by reading Quinn books.

  As I pointed out in Ishmael, we Takers are a desperately lost and needy people. It was this neediness, I think, that first made us yearn to be loved by God (an idea completely foreign to the animist mentality) and that made us dream of eternities of bliss after lifetimes of emptiness. If anything, our sense of neediness has grown even more overwhelming in recent decades. In addition to needing to be loved by God and to save our souls, we nowadays need to deepen our spiritual awareness, to raise our consciousness, to wield supernatural powers, to bend spoons with our minds, to grow our brains, to enhance our performance, to draw on the right side, to believe in the value of our creativity, to become more cosmic, to learn to fly, to investigate past lives, to have out-of-body experiences, to achieve lucid dreaming, to learn healing massage, to amplify our archetypes, to make our fantasies concrete, to explore our myths, to get rid of toxic introjects, to find our personal sacred site, to heal our inner child, to improve our experiential focusing, to be rebirthed, to take part in intrapsychic activities, to have a primal, to engage in cognitive restructuring, to indulge in cosmic play, to tune in to the godhead, to spend time on the astral plane, to have an intuition workout, to enhance our ch'i, to contact our spirit guide, to tap into the hypnogogic state, to increase our thanatological awareness, to have a soul reading, to visit a sacred energy vortex--and this hardly scratches the surface.

Providence

 

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