Comments on: The Ahab Syndrome http://blog.mrfire.com/the-ahab-syndrome/ Thoughts, news, riffs and reviews by Dr. Joe Vitale ("Mr. Fire!") about marketing, publicity, selling, hypnosis, copywriting, books, fitness, metaphysics, "The Secret" and anything else he cares to comment on, including healing, humor, the Internet and yes, maybe even sex. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:15:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: CHRISANNE http://blog.mrfire.com/the-ahab-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-162941 CHRISANNE Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:03:57 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2711#comment-162941 Mister Fire! LOVE your perspective on things! The fascinating Whale as symbol of God, who we get mad at for not delivering "Perfection"...surf with the Life that is delivered and LEARN...Awesome :) I also am enlivened by Rhonda's newest tome: what an inspiration to me, BOTH OF YOU! Lucky ME! Mister Fire!
LOVE your perspective on things! The fascinating Whale as symbol of God, who we get mad at for not delivering “Perfection”…surf with the Life that is delivered and LEARN…Awesome :) I also am enlivened by Rhonda’s newest tome: what an inspiration to me, BOTH OF YOU! Lucky ME!

]]> By: joel rivard http://blog.mrfire.com/the-ahab-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-156003 joel rivard Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:20:01 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2711#comment-156003 Brilliant! Melville mentions Vishnu twice in Moby Dick, specifically the first incarnation where Vishnu appears as a giant fish. Definitely a God thing. Your interpretation is great, there are many themes in the book but the overall mythology in the book is exactly how you state it. It depends on which mythology or philosophy you are filtering the story through of course, your version fits great with the transcendentalist or general New Thought movement. Looking forward to the new book. Brilliant!
Melville mentions Vishnu twice in Moby Dick, specifically the first incarnation where Vishnu appears as a giant fish.
Definitely a God thing.
Your interpretation is great, there are many themes in the book but the overall mythology in the book is exactly how you state it.

It depends on which mythology or philosophy you are filtering the story through of course, your version fits great with the transcendentalist or general New Thought movement.

Looking forward to the new book.

]]> By: John Anthony Miller II http://blog.mrfire.com/the-ahab-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-155094 John Anthony Miller II Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:17:54 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2711#comment-155094 This statement is dead right on target-every word! This statement is dead right on target-every word!

]]> By: John Anthony Miller II http://blog.mrfire.com/the-ahab-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-155053 John Anthony Miller II Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:02:42 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2711#comment-155053 I would love to see you have that play performed about his life. Peoples' attitudes and spirituality are (hopefully?) different now in the year 2010 than in the 1970's. I am wondering now, since he is a public figure and most of the people associated with London's life have passed on - if that performance could be reality now. It would be VERY interesting coming from your mind. One of these days I would love to read a blog by you about "The Star Rover" - or "The Jacket" as published in the UK (maybe just wishful thinking here). That is my favorite novel-also it was his daughter Becky's favorite novel. (Boy, was she a "chip of the old block!") It never really got off the ground because of WWI and its "far-out" topics of astral projection and reincarnation, and abuse of people in the prison systems, etc. More later! I would love to see you have that play performed about his life. Peoples’ attitudes and spirituality are (hopefully?) different now in the year 2010 than in the 1970’s. I am wondering now, since he is a public figure and most of the people associated with London’s life have passed on – if that performance could be reality now. It would be VERY interesting coming from your mind. One of these days I would love to read a blog by you about “The Star Rover” – or “The Jacket” as published in the UK (maybe just wishful thinking here). That is my favorite novel-also it was his daughter Becky’s favorite novel. (Boy, was she a “chip of the old block!”) It never really got off the ground because of WWI and its “far-out” topics of astral projection and reincarnation, and abuse of people in the prison systems, etc. More later!

]]> By: Joe Vitale http://blog.mrfire.com/the-ahab-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-155050 Joe Vitale Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:27:32 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2711#comment-155050 I don't have anything signed by Jack, and that I regret. I wrote a play about him in the 1970s but the copyright owner on London's life wouldn't allow it to be performed. Alas. Onwards! I don’t have anything signed by Jack, and that I regret. I wrote a play about him in the 1970s but the copyright owner on London’s life wouldn’t allow it to be performed. Alas. Onwards!

]]> By: John Anthony Miller II http://blog.mrfire.com/the-ahab-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-155048 John Anthony Miller II Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:22:48 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2711#comment-155048 Hi Joe! Great! Jack London was an interesting man. You are one of the very few people whom I know that have a full set of his works! Wow! That sets a person apart for sure! "Martin Eden" has been an inspiration for many talented people who are original thinkers. In a copy of "Martin Eden" that I have seen he has inscribed to another author "Here's poor lad Martin Eden that I'm glad you were willing artistically should de. But, ye Gods, how it did hurt the Ruths who read the yarn!" This was written just 16 days before his own death, ironically. My grandfather was an MD who had a practice in San Luis Obispo, CA and tended London on occasion with his associates (along with Wm. Randolph Hearst). London used to have a big yellow Packard (I believe it was a Packard) and ride down the coast with his Japanese driver. Grandma Lil told me this as well as my father. Some interesting stories exist of a most "paradoxical man"...who grew more and more spiritual as he got sicker. I will send on more signed RB's as time passes. Best of everything to you! As Ray B. would say..."Onward!" -John. PS: Jack said that he would rather be a "flaming meteor than a sleepy and permanent planet...the proper function of a man is to live and to use his time..." or something to that effect. PPS: Oh, and "People of The Abyss" --- what a book! Hi Joe! Great! Jack London was an interesting man. You are one of the very few people whom I know that have a full set of his works! Wow! That sets a person apart for sure! “Martin Eden” has been an inspiration for many talented people who are original thinkers. In a copy of “Martin Eden” that I have seen he has inscribed to another author “Here’s poor lad Martin Eden that I’m glad you were willing artistically should de. But, ye Gods, how it did hurt the Ruths who read the yarn!” This was written just 16 days before his own death, ironically. My grandfather was an MD who had a practice in San Luis Obispo, CA and tended London on occasion with his associates (along with Wm. Randolph Hearst). London used to have a big yellow Packard (I believe it was a Packard) and ride down the coast with his Japanese driver. Grandma Lil told me this as well as my father. Some interesting stories exist of a most “paradoxical man”…who grew more and more spiritual as he got sicker. I will send on more signed RB’s as time passes. Best of everything to you! As Ray B. would say…”Onward!” -John. PS: Jack said that he would rather be a “flaming meteor than a sleepy and permanent planet…the proper function of a man is to live and to use his time…” or something to that effect. PPS: Oh, and “People of The Abyss” — what a book!

]]> By: Joe Vitale http://blog.mrfire.com/the-ahab-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-154996 Joe Vitale Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:05:24 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2711#comment-154996 Hi John. Thank you for the DVD. It was a GREAT gift and surprise. I'm well aware of Jack London. I have every book of his. His novel <em>Martin Eden</em> inspired me, as did London's prolific writing life. Hi John. Thank you for the DVD. It was a GREAT gift and surprise. I’m well aware of Jack London. I have every book of his. His novel Martin Eden inspired me, as did London’s prolific writing life.

]]> By: John Anthony Miller II http://blog.mrfire.com/the-ahab-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-154599 John Anthony Miller II Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:01:47 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2711#comment-154599 As Ray Bradbury has told me many times, the greatest thing in the Universe is LOVE. I have noticed his great power of attraction on all levels is embedded in that love. From him: 'Do what you love, love what you do." He does not think of doing any of his creative processes that comes from his love (ie: "Witness and celebrate...") for money. He will be 90 years old on Aug 2010. He still has not wavered in his outlook of life or love. Like a fine wine, he has actually improved over time. As Ray Bradbury has told me many times,
the greatest thing in the Universe is
LOVE. I have noticed his great power of
attraction on all levels is embedded in
that love. From him: ‘Do what you love, love
what you do.” He does not think of doing
any of his creative processes that comes
from his love (ie: “Witness and celebrate…”)
for money. He will be 90 years old on Aug 2010.
He still has not wavered in his outlook of
life or love. Like a fine wine, he has actually
improved over time.

]]> By: Dee http://blog.mrfire.com/the-ahab-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-154038 Dee Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:11:49 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2711#comment-154038 I Love this statement in the article Here’s the lesson as I see it (with apologies to Melville, Bradbury, et al): Accept what happens to you in life as a gift, learn from it, turn it around if need be, and then get on with your life mission. I also love that if you get off track you can always get back on track and start to attract what you want in life. I Love this statement in the article Here’s the lesson as I see it (with apologies to Melville, Bradbury, et al): Accept what happens to you in life as a gift, learn from it, turn it around if need be, and then get on with your life mission. I also love that if you get off track you can always get back on track and start to attract what you want in life.

]]> By: John Anthony Miller II-Phantom Bookshop http://blog.mrfire.com/the-ahab-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-154036 John Anthony Miller II-Phantom Bookshop Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:05:20 +0000 http://blog.mrfire.com/?p=2711#comment-154036 Joe- Interesting thoughts. I found your blog about “Capt. Ahab Syndrome” interesting-as did the Bradbury family. I hope you liked the “Moby Dick” DVD also. Like you, I give books away and related items away, when I think appropriate. I think your readers would find another “Ahab-like” monster extremely interesting- one “super egocentric sea-related character” (as the sea is “the big conscious unknown” of the mind–or to me the “unknown” spiritual self, yes?) just as “terrifying”-Capt. Wolf Larsen of “The Sea-Wolf”….this “Ahab -related syndrome” I would call “The Wolf Larsen Syndrome.” Larsen is from Jack London’s masterpiece “The Sea-Wolf.” As a collector-reader of the great Jack London for years, London was (and still is to me) a paradoxical enigma of a man that folks might find very interesting. London, who died at 40, not from suicide, but from uremic poisoning and a heart attack. He wrote 50 books over a 17 year period. He is forgotten by many now, except for “The Call of The Wild” and writer of dog books-such as “White Fang.” Quite the contrary, he wrote about time travel, astral projection, aliens, plagues wiping out civiliation, a Chinese invasion of the US, social conditions, the very very socially deprived and abuse of the poor masses of humanity and on and on. His real masterpiece is “The Sea-Wolf” –not “The Call of The Wild.” This character of Capt. Larsen is worthy of a few words, a nightmare mad man who was also “learned” with racks of books by intellectuals, poets and scientists, all shelved on his true ship from hell. He created a world of social Darwinism and horror in his universe so unbearable, so terrible, that for himself that the only escape was death. (My mind also goes back to Ernest Miller Hemingway when I mention this, another genius…) All this kind of world perception and “collective thinking” can be paralleled to what is happening today in our society, as I look around. Many will not agree with me. Now, I am coming back to my good friend Ray Bradbury and his masterpiece “Fahrenheit 451″ (of whom Dr. Werhner von Braun, the inventor of the V-2 Rocket, said of Ray Bradbury – he had it “all figured out way ahead of all of us”). “Fahrenheit 451″ is a perfect parallel of what is happening today, “firemen” burning books…I could go on about this, but it is all in the book-just think forward a few years. We do attract our own miracles-I truly believe this. We need not be book burners, Ahabs or Larsens. Everything is LOVE. That is Ray Bradbury’s mantra, as I have heard him say this over many many years. As another lovingly put “aside” comment from a forgotten author: “Books were once men.” This one comes from George Barr McCutcheon-creator of the magical kingdom of “Graustark.”—Peace, love and good karma, John. Joe-
Interesting thoughts. I found your blog about “Capt. Ahab Syndrome” interesting-as did the Bradbury family. I hope you liked the “Moby Dick” DVD also. Like you, I give books away and related items away, when I think appropriate. I think your readers would find another “Ahab-like” monster extremely interesting- one “super egocentric sea-related character” (as the sea is “the big conscious unknown” of the mind–or to me the “unknown” spiritual self, yes?) just as “terrifying”-Capt. Wolf Larsen of “The Sea-Wolf”….this “Ahab -related syndrome” I would call “The Wolf Larsen Syndrome.” Larsen is from Jack London’s masterpiece “The Sea-Wolf.” As a collector-reader of the great Jack London for years, London was (and still is to me) a paradoxical enigma of a man that folks might find very interesting. London, who died at 40, not from suicide, but from uremic poisoning and a heart attack. He wrote 50 books over a 17 year period. He is forgotten by many now, except for “The Call of The Wild” and writer of dog books-such as “White Fang.” Quite the contrary, he wrote about time travel, astral projection, aliens, plagues wiping out civiliation, a Chinese invasion of the US, social conditions, the very very socially deprived and abuse of the poor masses of humanity and on and on. His real masterpiece is “The Sea-Wolf” –not “The Call of The Wild.” This character of Capt. Larsen is worthy of a few words, a nightmare mad man who was also “learned” with racks of books by intellectuals, poets and scientists, all shelved on his true ship from hell. He created a world of social Darwinism and horror in his universe so unbearable, so terrible, that for himself that the only escape was death. (My mind also goes back to Ernest Miller Hemingway when I mention this, another genius…) All this kind of world perception and “collective thinking” can be paralleled to what is happening today in our society, as I look around. Many will not agree with me. Now, I am coming back to my good friend Ray Bradbury and his masterpiece “Fahrenheit 451″ (of whom Dr. Werhner von Braun, the inventor of the V-2 Rocket, said of Ray Bradbury – he had it “all figured out way ahead of all of us”). “Fahrenheit 451″ is a perfect parallel of what is happening today, “firemen” burning books…I could go on about this, but it is all in the book-just think forward a few years. We do attract our own miracles-I truly believe this. We need not be book burners, Ahabs or Larsens. Everything is LOVE. That is Ray Bradbury’s mantra, as I have heard him say this over many many years. As another lovingly put “aside” comment from a forgotten author: “Books were once men.” This one comes from George Barr McCutcheon-creator of the magical kingdom of “Graustark.”—Peace, love and good karma, John.

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