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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Human Consciousness

Evolution Entwined with Love

March 18, 2024

I like to think this all has meaning, this grand scope of things from the birth of stars to the …

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Redux

September 24, 2023

I wrote this some time ago and I’m revisiting it now because it describes so well how I’ve been feeling …

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Nature and Human Consciousness, No Separation

September 3, 2023

Every time I write about nature I get deep into human consciousness. You can’t really separate the two. There is …

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Vast Emptiness, Vastly Full

August 28, 2023

There are a few refrains that I turn to again and again when I want to get a clearer sense …

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Between Dusk and Dawn a New Year Appears to Appear

January 1, 2023

And yet we know it’s all just one continuous unfolding as one day or year slips seamlessly into the next. …

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A Deep-Dive Through Time and Space

July 17, 2022

By now you’ve probably seen the stunning new images from the Webb Space Telescope, which takes us 13 billion years …

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Satie’s Gnossienne, Forking Paths, and Time’s Ever Presence

November 7, 2021

Time-travelling—that’s what it feels like when listening to Erik Satie’s Gnossienne. When I close my eyes and let the music …

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Multiple Layers of Reality in Film, and in Us

October 17, 2021

In several of his films, Ingmar Bergman plays with the notion of multiple layers of reality. This can be seen …

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Chopin’s Nocturnes Tinkling the Keys of Consciousness

October 4, 2021

I spent Sunday morning in bed with my coffee listening to Chopin’s complete nocturnes playing on my phone beside me. …

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Landscapes of the Mind – Six Singular Experiences

September 7, 2020

It’s all about the mind, of course. All experience filters through it, the outward and inner, nature and the art …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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