“Literature Is Finished”… and The Middle Way
“The way of ‘self-expression’, individual acknowledgements, results in egotists, sure of the right to their private interpretations of God and …
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Cup Of Joe, Anyone?
“The message of an effective living myth is delivered to the sphere of bliss of the deep unconscious, where it …
A Western (Zen) Oneness
At the heart of the Omphalos Cafe is a Western approach to a oneness which, for want of a better …
Sunday Satori
“Satori is the continuum becoming conscious of it. When it perceives itself as it is in itself there is a …
What A Journey…This Life Of Ours!
Many years ago now, after cracking open a few books and starting what might be called a protracted course of …
Bloomsday Is An Intellectual Game… Dedalusday A Spiritual Journey
“Bloomsday is an intellectual game… Dedalusday is a spiritual journey.”—Xenon “When Zen gives utterance to itself, it goes against the …
It’s Bloomsday…For The Masses, Dedalusday For The Few
“Will you be as gods? Gaze in your omphalos.”—Stephen Dedalus, A.K.A. James Joyce, Ulysses “It’s Bloomsday…for the masses; Dedalusday for …
Sunday Morning… In Context
Sunday morning. Down in the kitchen for my tea and cereal. Wife and son upstairs in bed. Poker tourney last …
You Write, I Write, We All Write….Right?
“I eschew all clear cut interpretations: with increasing simplification the mystery heightens. What I know tends to become more and …
After The Escape
“Today I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I …
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