Joseph Voelbel is the author of, ‘Pay Attention to Bitcoin: The Rise of Digital Gold and its Place in the Evolution of Money’ (2024), and ‘Nineteen Stories’ (2017) - a collection of short exploring the unknown. This channel had been dedicated to the preservation of high water marks of literature, including the complete english narrations of Jorge Luis Borges’ ‘Ficciones’, which includes classic stories such as, ‘Tlon, Uqbar, and Orbis Tertius’, ‘The Garden of Forking Paths’, and ‘The Library of Babel’. Future content will include bitcoin related research, personal opinions, and general discussions related to Finance, Philosophy, and Creativity as well as more great literary excerpts. If you enjoy this content please consider subscribing.
Your narrations of Emerson, Borges, and all the others are truly incredible! Your voice and cadence are perfect and quite pleasant to listen to as well. I'm very grateful that I can experience it this way, especially since I listen and re-listen to them on long walks, when the mind is clear and receptive. Thank you for recording.
Would you have any interest in me running a membership program where I'd do live streams to talk about particular essays or short stories? nbd just wondering.
@@JosephVoelbel Not sure about discussions, I just really like well-narrated essays/stories on their own. Yours, Grimscribe, Thee Landstander - from the ones on RU-vid.
Once you establish integrity & honesty "you are no longer blocked" you get direct communication. phones 📲only necessary for practical use. 🌍🌎🌏🤔🪐 it means that the direct contact between you and the other individual goes from mind to mind there is no wall in between you read the other fellows mind he reads your minds both understand each other's clearly no interference no wall in between the two minds. 😉🪐
Once you establish integrity & honesty "you are no longer blocked" you get direct communication. phones 📲only necessary for practical use. 🌍🌎🌏🤔🪐 it means that the direct contact between you and the other individual goes from mind to mind there is no wall in between you read the other fellows mind he reads your minds both understand each other's clearly no interference no wall in between the two minds. 😉🪐
What was the reader smoking, I wonder? I could hear him lighting up and inhaling haha. Great story though, I hadn't heard it in years. I always thought of all the symbolism and meaning Borges put in this masterpiece, the complexity and infinite possibilities of the modern world was the most profound.
@@JosephVoelbel It doesn’t go unnoticed and is very much appreciated…🙏 Are there multiple translations? The reading is slightly different than the transcription.
The concepts raised in this book make me feel more sane. Had an experience of major trauma through a mystery illness. The trauma came from the lack of belief from everyone around me that what I was saying was happening was happening. For the years between then and recovery life was completely different. I was living life through its undercurrents instead of by its projections. So I could see how ones words affected their consequences, and also the effects of bad language and lies on environments and well being. Sensual perception was constantly through the roof and I could not work and had to keep It was quite clear of large groups of people. Instead learned to live by these principles and one day I hope to be a help to others that do not understand certain circumstances. Despite being mostly clear of the illness I have still carried this type of mindset. So now it makes a little more sense and I'm grateful for this upload. Anyone else with a similar experience?
When i was 8/9, i realized what i would think would happen, would happen. Sometimes i was say in a car with someone else, both silent, and suddenly the other person start a discussion about something i was thinking moments before. This started my inquiry in various fields to find an explanation, from science to magic
"The blood spilled by the Archangel had stained the dark, sanguine and boiling floors of this Heretical layer, drying and disappearing within seconds due to the cruel heat of the place... This object's hunger had no limits, and it continued forward on its path, jumping down the elevator shaft and rapidly descending towards the next challenge that awaited it. Deep, beyond the lowest point of Hell, a laugh was heard, as the intelligent superorganism that spanned across the entirety of these damned layers watched joyfully the massacre that the traitorous and unholy Spawn of Man was bringing upon its hateful ground. All just entertainment for itself. This organism changed the location the Elevator was moving towards, completely shaping and morphing the area to make "It" go exactly where it wanted... to make art with the blood of its enemies. And so, the Machine was led... toward a Garden of Forking Paths."
Thank you for this. I've recently taken an interest in quantum mechanics and the weird behaviour of atoms called quantum entanglement - this 'behaviour' apparently does not obey any 'laws' of causality and as such may be analogous to whatever unseen factors 'cause' coincidence.
To spread word of your secret by murdering a friend of that same name, who provided the material needed,as well as the name for that secret, for you to achieve your goal, but at the cost of that precious friends life.
I wonder what sort of god would create a universe like this (for, a the narrator points out, a universe like this could _only_ exist as a direct creation of some sort of deity.)
Be happy to consider an excerpt. It’s a 400 ish page book if I recall from reading it. The part of laughter contagion would be super interesting to do.
This reading is spot on to me. I hear the influence of Edgar Allan Poe , indeed after many readings, by hearing this reading I feel that gothic horror influence. Borges admitted his real life friend, Adolpho Bioy Casares, in to to this fiction work, who wrote. "The Invention of Dr Morell". If you are hearing this work and did not read Casares then the the " Invention of Dr. Morell" is probably for you. Thanks for this reading presentation. Seems a hint of Ouspensky , Gurdjieff spice I never noticed , prior to hearing this. Perhaps?
@@JosephVoelbel forking unlimitless. but writing too. you know or 'the pale imitation' of nature. or cosmos, though cosmos is not at all imitated, just intimidating.
