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The View From On High…2

August 25, 2022

  Picture a mighty river, say the Amazon or the Irriwady (Ayeyarwady) which empties through a vast delta region into …

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The View From On High…

August 23, 2022

From an email to a friend:   Beautifully put, Blaire, for we are all one family, and more or less …

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Why Joseph Campbell?

February 3, 2022

  Ok, on numerous occasions I’ve insisted that Joseph Campbell’s four volume series, The Masks Of God, is the most …

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Celebrating Giants Of The Human Spirit!

December 17, 2021

  How long ago now was it that I first cracked the spine of Joseph Campbell’s Creative Mythology? Thirty years? …

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Quiet Contentment….

October 11, 2021

  Outside was almost total darkness, except for a few pinpoints of light lining the far side of the invisible …

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You ARE The Current!….

January 4, 2021

  ” …[T]his current of life, traversing the bodies it has organized one after another, passing from generation to generation, …

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Time Lapse….

January 1, 2021

   “… [L]ife is like a current passing from germ to germ through the medium of a developed organism.“—Henri Bergson, …

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On Krishnamurti, James Joyce, And History….

December 28, 2020

  Let me warn you: this post is far too long. It is an email I woke up and sent …

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A Final Word (Maybe) From The Doors Of Perception….

December 24, 2020

  I’ll share one more extended quote from Aldous Huxley’s The Doors Of Perception before putting it back on the …

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We Use Words Far Too Much….

December 22, 2020

  I take long walks up into the hills behind my place almost every day now. Yesterday with a light …

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