I have a Brit Mystery obsession so English cultures filtered through decades of their mysteries is more my own now then American, so I feel right at home here in Blackstone which was named after a famous English jurist. The classic English mystery is about Order, Order broken by a dark force (murder), and Oder […]
The Sound of Rapinoe is about breaking out of the cultural egg and the liberation and joy one feels at being reborn. As a metaphor Rapinoe points to this basic desire and joy that stirs inside us all. If we have taken refuge in the Egg and the logic that holds it together, when someone […]
Our first wedding was in the Baptist Church in Blackstone. I failed at that marriage in the mid 70s and got a divorce; then I failed at divorce and we got remarried in a Siddha Yoga group wedding, but were unable to get a marriage license in NY State in time for the wedding, so […]
View video We have two guest cats in our house and then like to relieve tension, as cats do, by scratching a post or, in our case, our rug. The cat transmutes the pain of tension into the scratching. So in order to accolade the cat’s needs and save my rugs, I got coconut fiber […]
This Forest Gump image is interesting because of the ambiguity. Forest Gump has a hold of time. As you know in the movie that feather floated in at the beginning and at the end, and we knew it was metaphorical to something, but we don’t know as the movie unfolds. Is the feather a metaphor […]
My backyard has a Buddha pond, and three original koi are still there, now over a foot long. I am waiting to see if they will outgrow their ocean and die or will their enclosure naturally check their expansion. Koi are carp and they can get quite big. Many of us outgrow our pond and […]
“Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence. Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented. This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.” Eckhart Tolle (from The Power of Now) ____________________ Is reality good or bad? […]
“Whatever you learn through psychoanalysis or self-observation is about you. It is not you. It is content, not essence. Going b beyond ego is stepping out of content.” Eckhart Tolle (from The Power of Now) _____________________ What you observe as something— thoughts, emotions, feeling, concepts, psychological theories—is the separation of you The One) into two. […]
“There is no such thing as “my life,” and I don’t HAVE a life. I AM life. I and life are one. It cannot be otherwise. So how could I lose my life? How could I lose something that I don’t have in the first place? How could I lose something that I AM? It […]
“If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are are, then what’s left is who you are—the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined. Give up defining yourself—to yourself and others. You won’t die. You will come to life.” Eckhart Tolle (from The […]
The question of KAV’s guilt or innocence is framed by our inability to rest in ambiguity, to hold judgment, no restrain from choosing this or that. We live in a rational logical materialism where truth must be Either this Or that. Truth can’t be this/that; truth can’t be ambiguous, so we can’t by the force […]
Social media is changing everything because everyone is watching everything live. There is no more time; everything is Now. We are a internet species now, a flock of starlings that shift in unison in flight. Common sense wise we are still living in the Newtonian universe of billiard balls knocking into each other as cause […]
The moral crisis is when we must choose what is right but can’t, yet we must. When both choices have equal arguments and emotional power, and Truth or the One is divided against itself. Truth Is One…Reality is not two unless you are a schizophrenic. So to avoid the psychosis of a split mind we […]
Just watched Black Panther on Netflix and as an extended metaphor (which movies are) you can get any meaning you want from the movie, so I’ll just point out one I saw. Wakanda is a culture that was hijacked by a ritually confirmed king (Trump) who out of his personal anger took the culture in […]
