Tyranny of Love

Robert B. MacIntyre is head of the Centre for Relationship Therapy and
Education in Orangeville, Ontario.

These two volumes contain another series of Kenneth Mills’s
trademarked “unfoldments,” transcribed presentations that he makes
to his students. These presentations are not prepared but rather
“unfold” as he proceeds. The overall effect is of a literate and
informed stream of consciousness. Mills uses spontaneous events,
students’ questions and comments, wordplay and puns, and association
of ideas to present his thoughts on the nature of the self and the
world.

Since the unfoldments are intended to confound the limits of
intellectual understanding, reviewing them is a difficult task. The
ideas flow with no apparent structure, and nowhere does Mills present a
concise overview of his philosophy. Those who have studied with Mills
may have a framework into which these meditations can be fitted. New
readers will probably find the flood of exhortation, blank verse,
lecture, and free-association difficult to grasp. Perhaps the best way
to read this material is in small doses, allowing for personal
integration of the core truths presented.