• So now it’s human-animal mixtures?

    Why is there not worldwide outrage at the reckless arrogance being displayed here? Does anybody think this will be kept within limits? But if it’s done in the name of “science” it’s okay, right? That was certainly the Nazi viewpoint. Notice the explanations that amount to saying, “it won’t be carried beyond certain carefully restricted…

  • Sri Aurobindo on individuals and evolution

    I didn’t realize, when I wrote down so many quotations that moved me, so long ago, that I was holding them for you who read this post. Glad I did? “The coming of a spiritual age must be preceded by the appearance of an increasing number of individuals who are no longer satisfied with the…

  • In my spare time

    In my copious free time, I do some pottery, having been taking classes for about a year now with Nan Rothwell. Of the 23 pieces I had in our latest kiln firing, these are among my favorites. The horus holding the human head is 6” high (x5″x7″); the woman with the basket is 8” high…

  • Buckminster Fuller on science as mystery

    More nuggets from my early journals, this one recorded in October, 1972 While one percent of society has superficial awareness of the existence of mathematical regularities synergetically displayed by mass attraction and supersynergetically displayed as precession, no scientist has the slightest idea what mass attraction is nor why synergy, precession, or radiation exists or acts…

  • Patients teach doc lesson in spirit life

    From http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/mailstory-clickthru/232024.php via a friend. There is always hope; you can never tell who’s going to get the word. Patients teach doc lesson in spirit life By Carla McClain Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona | Published: 03.30.2008 He is a doctor in love with his patients. It is to them he gives thanks for the…

  • Lord Clark on Civilization

    This is a long excerpt from the book Civilization by Kenneth Clark, later Lord Clark, writing in 1969. I was living in Florida in the early 1970s and I watched the ten-part PBS series “Civilization” (the transcripts of which comprise this book) and I remember how moving it was. The test of any work of…

  • The Mythological and Religious Symbolism of Dreams

    My friend Robert Clarke sent me this article he published in his local newspaper — he lives in Burslem, which is one of the cities that comprise Stoke-on-Trent. Robert is an expert on dreams and dream symbolism, and at some point I will get around to telling his story, which is a fascinating one. The…

  • Aflame at the Margins

      A little parable. I was lighting a fire in the stove, watching one spot intently to see if it would catch – and suddenly realized that although that hadn’t caught, it didn’t matter, because everything around it was aflame. That’s like our lives, in a way – concentrating so on this or that difficulty,…

  • Beware premature clarity, and yet —

    [Sunday, January 15, 2006] 6:45 a.m. So. Here we are again. I shied away from that discussion about TGU versus any one of you. Why? It is as if I wasn’t ready to hear it – or as if I hadn’t finished making up the answer! But in fact I don’t know why. So I…

  • Kazantzakis on three kinds of souls, and on acquiring oneness

    More gleanings from my journals, these two from 1973: Three Kinds of Souls, Three Prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break! Nicholas Kazantzakis, Report to Greco