Posts in Chronological Order

Tuesday, December 12, 2017 Looking back to our session of Dec. 7, I see your summary of what needs to be explained, to explain why we are on any given timeline, regardless whether we think we would have chosen it. What is a decision, and who makes it. How a decision actually affects timelines. Why…

Tuesday, December 19, 2017 I wonder, sometimes: Do these topics arise because of the things that have been happening in my life, or are there things triggered so that the subjects may arise. This could be an interesting topic, if we can find the right analogy. The short, but too cryptic, answer is that what…

Friday, December 2, 2017 Did you ever wonder how a topic and a moment of time come together? That’s an odd way to put it. The way of putting it stems from the way the subjects look to us.  Let’s talk about the process of communication. You may think you’ve exhausted the subject already, but…

Sunday, December 24, 2017 So where are we in your syllabus? We are still in the process of tying together concepts that have become so widely disassociated in your lives as to remove the center Yeats was talking about. * [See below] Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. That is what happens when a…

Friday, December 29, 2017 I’ve lost track of where we are and what you are explicating. Again, a logical progression makes less difference than you might suppose. Is it too much to expect that the pathless path – freedom in all directions – would be explicable in more than one way? It isn’t a treasure…

Saturday,  December 30, 2017 6:55 a.m. I watched Michael Ventura’s full-length commentary on John Cassavetes’ movie “Love Stream” again last night, and I am reminded that metaphysical conversations have a tendency to glide lightly over the hard questions that serious filmmakers and writers come up against all the time. Sex, love, hatred, conflict, anguish, dead-end…

Saturday, December 5, 2020 In considering emotion and our lives, two inputs, one from Bill Ebeltoft, one from Dirk. How about it, guys? Compare and contrast? Or at least comment? [Bill suggested that we don’t so much change our emotions, as interpret them through our own filters. How we choose to react can change the…

Friday, January 25, 2019 As I look back on my life, it seems to me I didn’t stay conscious enough. I rarely turned the inner spotlight on me, though in another sense that is all I ever concerned myself with. It’s hard to express: A self-centeredness that was not egotistical, or a self-awareness that was…

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 [A man named Hanns Oskar Porr sent an email asking if strands ever wrap around as in a hologram, each point containing all else and at the same time feeding into the others. He (noting the problem with using the words “higher” and “lower”) asked if a higher level might feed…

Monday, February 4, 2019 Hanns Oskar Porr asks if people who are murdered choose to be murdered. “Is it part of any greater plan ( call it a life-plan, probabilities, test, an exit strategy, etc.)?  And here is the important one:  if it is a choice, is it always a choice or are there also…