Infinitely Yours
A few days ago I recorded a podcast with Jamie Butler and Andrew Santamaria. Though touching on a variety of subjects, the main theme was to be the concept of parallel lives in parallel universes....
The Man Who Had No Purpose …
In my Freshman year at Gilmour Academy Brother Adolphus (not his real name), an exemplary teacher in the very fullness of the word, tasked his English class with a writing...
Happy Now?
“The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties, and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.” Bertrand Russell (1872...
Missing Pieces
“No more let life divide what death can join together…” Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats. By Percy Bysshe Shelley It did not take long after the...
The Edge of Sadness
“When you live next to the cemetery, you can’t weep for everyone” Russian proverb. “We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or...
Dead Weight …
“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, that otherwise would heal.” Francis Bacon (1561-1626) “Of Revenge”, Essays 1625 Show of hands: Who among us has not...
Korsakov’s Paradox
CONGRUO EST OCCULTUS COMPAGES SUBTER SUPTER ANIMADVERTO“Coincidence is the Hidden Architecture of Reality” The translation of “YAHWEH” has concerned scholars and theologians...
Get Thee Behind Me …
“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,” the Queen remarked. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898). Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 5, 1872. Since the...
A Spiritual Awakening
Obviously, the subject may apply to anyone. But my focus here is specific. Shortly after I developed and offered, in the early 1970’s, one of the first U.S. courses in...
Transcendent Awareness
“What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?” – KAHLIL GIBRAN (1883-1931) “The Farewell”, The Prophet, 1925. “If ya’ heard the shot, it...
Leaving It Behind
“….ashes to ashes, dust to dust…” Touching. Seemingly a completed cycle. But is it? Up through my twenties, on trips and while living in several places I deeply enjoyed...