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“Come Out Of There!”….”No.”…

March 13, 2025

  The proprietor hails from eastern France, near the Swiss border. “Magnifique!” he nodded when I asked if it was …

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Embrace The Irrational!

March 12, 2025

  Irrationality needn’t be feared, contrary to what we’ve been told and how we feel.    Yes, it is unpredictable, …

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Nature As The Church… The Shrines The Altars….

March 11, 2025

 That was my impression as I roamed the lush gardens of Japan. Beautifully sculpted, the gardens draw you along winding …

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Sunday… The Lord’s Day…?

March 9, 2025

 Poseidon.    A personification, indeed a deification, of the unfathomable power of the oceans and seas. But look beyond the …

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Performance Art….

March 6, 2025

Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot?!  “You must do your duty and perform this vision for your people upon earth.”—Words of Black Road …

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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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