• Jung: “You can experience God every day.”

    C.G. Jung is an example of the fact that great men’s influence lengthens and deepens, rather than diminished, with time. It takes a while, when a great man dies, for us to see just how great a tree has fallen. But it becomes easier over time. Just as the dead tree decays and fertilizes the…

  • Robert Clarke: “Again, it’s down to love, basically”

    In going through some material I have saved, I found this email from my friend Robert Clarke, dated 2-12-2006. I can’t remember what I had written that he was responding to, but his own views are clear enough, and well worth repeating in public. What a lovely man he was, a man wholly without malice,…

  • Jung: “We must begin to learn about man”

    It is precisely my objection to politics and ideology, that they encourage people to look outside themselves for the source of life’s problems. But, as Jung in his wisdom told this reporter, each of us has within us Mr. Hyde. Our job is to learn what we are From an interview with the English journalist…

  • So You Think Your Life Was Wasted (30)

    “You imagined yourself into your future” I haven’t forgotten that the over-arching question here is, “What is the meaning of life?” Although it may seem as if this is merely of personal interest, I suggest that it applies to us all, at one level or another. Exposing my own shortcomings may be a way to…

  • Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again

    The social hysteria about psychoactive drug use was caused  partly by cynical calculation by politicians, partly by profit-seeking drug lords themselves, I suspect, and partly by a deep pervasive unconscious fear of loss of control. For the moment it seems to be losing ground, and scientists are ever-so-carefully going back to what they were doing…

  • Orlov on the Great Unreasoning

    Dmitri Orlov’s column is a bit too long and a bit too self-amusing, but, as usual, thoughtful. What struck me, skimming it, was that he was saying much the same thing that the guys upstairs said about the futility of trying to change people from Column A to Column B. From Club Orlov, http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/ The Great…

  • Self-portrait

    Recognize yourself? This is what the guys upstairs say we look like to them, more or less. Each of us “individuals” seems to them like a ring containing disparate threads. Those threads are shared with some others in 3D, and each thread resonates with one or more of “them” on the other side. So, if…

  • Gordon Phinn on Confronting Your Immortality

    A good counterpoint to the usual view, from my friend Gordon Phinn’s website http://anotherwordofgord.wordpress.com/ March 21, 2010 Confronting Your Immortality In our modern times it is considered a move of great maturity and bravery to confront your mortality.

  • So You Think Your Life Was Wasted (31)

    Re-imagining yourself Our internal life and external life don’t always coincide. How do we dance on the borderline without compromising our integrity? Tuesday, July 31, 2007 6:05 a.m. Mr. Hemingway, you said you couldn’t stand phonies, and clearly you couldn’t. How do you reconcile this with so much pretending and rearranging and lying and misremembering…

  • So You Think Your Life Was Wasted (32)

    “If you missed some chances, so what?” At the cost of some slight embarrassment, I offer this for those whose life situation it may echo, who may take encouragement from it. August 9, 2007 Joseph, my friend, long time no see, but I just got the sense that I ought to contact you. You will…