Our friend, Tree, has two personalities. First, the breezy, noisy, forward-looking treetop who engages with other beings in the air and all around. Second, the deep roots ensconced in and engaging the underworld from which Tree springs, but never abandons. The treetop can only imagine what the roots are doing, because the roots are buried […]
One frustration that used to plague me was when friends and not-so-friendlies would get upset with me for stating opinions without prefacing them with, “In my opinion….” Did they not know it was my opinion? If it’s not a fact (or Truth) and it’s squawking from my mouth, isn’t it obviously my opinion? Why did […]
When I moved to Hawaii in 2012, the last nation of critters I thought would be teaching me anything in the tropics were cats. But they are now and forever, so they probably know a thing or two about being. Or being here. Or being here now. Whatever it is. If all cats everywhere could write one […]
Our kitty pal Elvis has left the building. He passed away a few weeks ago. The other two cats are fine. They learned to adapt to Hawaii. They learned not to slap at wasps and carry centipedes around in their mouths. They probably learned it by watching Elvis foolishly think he could conquer the critters […]
Cats. I’ve written a bit about them in these webpages. About how observing our house cats’ everyday behavior can illuminate something of human behavior, which, if you’re keeping score at home, indicates a global, if not universal, consciousness. Mainly, I’ve concentrated on how Carol’s and my three cat buddies have spontaneously changed their behaviors in […]
When we imagine how we’d react in the face of the unknown, unless we joke around and say we’d piss our pants and run away, we tend to envision a controlled scenario in which we behave normally, whatever that means for us. We imagine how we’d react, oblivious to the possibility that such a moment […]
I recently spoke to a group of professors and PhD. candidates in fields ranging from psychology to anthropology, at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. I told them about my “awakening” experience, which you may have read in my book, Urgency., or heard in the audio version on this site. During the retell, I described how being […]