Is compassion nature or nurture? I’ve written about Carol’s and my new life together with three cats, Gracie, Elvis, and Oscar. Oscar is the cuddle cat. He loves a good lap. Prior to moving here, and Carol would add, prior to meeting me, Oscar was shy. He didn’t much care for strangers and he didn’t […]
You ever come at a child with a spoonful of bitter medicine? They yell, “No! … No! …” as they whip their head left and right to avoid the spoon. This is where you must pretend the spoon is a choo-choo train or an airplane coming in for a landing. Whatever game appeals to the […]
Despite my best efforts to repeat myself because we both know sometimes we drift off reading these things and miss what’s being said, you may still be wondering why we refer to brain-self instead of just saying self. It is because the brain, not you, must give you up. That’s when self gets re-contextualized in […]
It’s time. Time for simplicity. Time for practicality. No heady essay here. Mostly. Until the end. Sorry in advance. Or sorry for the rest of it if simplicity isn’t your thing. … ahem … What comes to mind when you think of communing with Nature? Does it involving sitting quietly under a tree deep in […]
Brain-self death is simply about reorganizing the psyche so that the human being is properly aligned and running smoothly on universal energy. Brain-self must die only to resurrect in heart. When this happens, the person is in the healthy state, ready for the next transcendence where the body remains as a time form that is […]
Truth as Knowledge Let’s talk about knowledge. In my case, as Westernized brain-Jeremy broke apart and disintegrated, insights came flooding in. To a brain-self, insights are Truth as knowledge. Transcendentally encompassing that, Truth is the living flow, the action(s) that you are and that you take when expressing wholeness. But until that living flow person […]
Dream Time Have you ever become lucid in a dream only to have the characters around you stop acting their roles and try killing you? I’ve talked and written elsewhere about how this has happened to me numerous times and how stunned I was to see it play out in the movie Inception. I’ve toyed […]
Aloha! And welcome to stories of my life that may be lessons to some, guideposts to others, and examples of what’s possible because they happened to me, but are not necessarily indicative of what will happen to you. These are the little things, the personal sketches I did not write for Urgency. I think they […]