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Tag Archives: Life

The Priests And The Shaman…

March 3, 2025

  “And yet even then [Paleolithic Age] there was an allowance made for a certain type of deviant, the visionary, …

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Why The Omphalos Cafe?

March 2, 2025

  Honestly I do not even like using the word ‘shaman.’ The word, like many today, has suffered degradation. The …

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Time To Open The Cafe Doors Again…

March 1, 2025

Western Civilization?  “As I sit here, I can feel in this man beside me a strong desire to know the …

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“Neurotic Children….”

May 3, 2024

  “People who know nothing about nature are of course neurotic, for they are not adapted to reality. They are …

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Our (Lost) Sacred Connection To Nature….

April 29, 2024

  This is from an email I recently sent an old friend: Great getting together. Like I briefly said, I …

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‘Enlightenment:’ The Unseen, Unseeable Flow!

April 14, 2024

 Enlightenment. Satori. Zen. Mindfulness. Living in the Present. All is ‘Transient.’    Blah, blah, blah.    We always, always need …

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On ‘Enlightenment’…

February 21, 2024

  We’ve built up such a superstructure of thought, definition, theory and system, that getting back to Oneness with Nature …

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Our Lost Oneness….

February 19, 2024

    Try to imagine the evolution, the organic blossoming of human interaction from families and clans through the vast …

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Happy… Now!

December 30, 2023

  “(The paths to the House I seek to make,   But leave to those to come, the House itself.) …

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On Ulysses, Books, Books, Books, and ‘Coffined Words…’

December 18, 2023

   I wrote this in response to a comment I received today on a YouTube video I did many years …

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