The ducklings seem to know us now, but even so they freak out, terrified, every time we pick them up. I get the sense that they understand that we lunge our massive hands at them to transport them to a better environment, in a play pen outdoors, yet knowledge of the payoff to come doesn’t […]
Are psychics predicting the future or seeing what’s there now? If some of what’s there now exists in a parallel universe, can they mistake those events for our own? Do psychic abilities manifest in thought? What about in the creative flow of imaginative authors? I, for one, have made fake predictions in a humor piece […]
Oneness and separation are inextricably linked. Therefore, oneness is the case that transcends and includes separation. Prove it, you say? You are the proof. Consider…. We’ve talked about how becoming the 1st-person point of view of oneness is the human gift, or human destiny, if we get there. Not thought. Not feeling. Oneness. No-Thingness. As […]
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 […]
We haven’t talked much about the Trickster archetype or George Hansen’s Trickster Theory here, which might be surprising to listeners of Paratopia and The Experience, as well as readers of I Am To Tell You This And I Am To Tell You it Is Fiction. We will explore what Trickster is down the line. For […]
All those times I came so close. I remember, I remember. Invisible other? That was me. I remember, I remember. I remember how it felt. I remember, I remember. Teacher waiting ‘neath the Learning Tree. I remember, I remember. I remember her dimly. I remember, I remember. Softly. Fondly. Darkly. Dimly…. Dimly…. I am memory living memories […]
We can share but I can’t teach. This is a point I’ve written about, talked about, and still some expect to learn something from me beyond a description of my personal experiences, universal experiences, and, you know, understandings that listeners aren’t experiencing because they’re too busy asking me how to have them. The unfortunate problem […]
Uttering Truth is the death of Truth because Truth is the living action of Being, which dies the moment it is translated from timelessness into time through utterance. The acts of uttering and sharing create an interval of time, which is the death of Being and the beginning of doing. It is a necessary death, […]
Consider what follows not as scenery from a life, but as scenery from all human life. This is all of us. This is hard to articulate and harder still to read. But it is the jumping-off point for some deeper essays in the pipeline. Deep breath. Rub your eyes. Here we go…. From within time, […]
You know when you say, “I need a moment” or “Just give me a moment?” What does that really mean? It means you want a time out. You want a bubble out of time where you’re in the moment “gathering yourself” or silently allowing an epiphany to come that clears up the confusion. Even when […]