Making Music Wherever We Go – The Rhymes and Rhythms that Move Us
Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross To see a fine lady upon a fine horse. Rings on her fingers …
Category Archives: Human Consciousness
Dreaming of Death—Oops, Bears
I’m going to die. Soon. That’s what I thought, waking one morning, remembering three distinct dreams, each in which I …
A Dream Within a Dream Within a . . .
My daughter’s wedding day had arrived and everything that could go wrong went wrong. We arrived at the church only …
Layers of Reality in Bergman’s “Franny and Alexander,” and in Us
In several of his films, Ingmar Bergman plays with the notion of multiple layers of reality. This can be seen …
“You are the Eternal Universe” – Alan Watts
I found this amazing video “You are the Eternal Universe” on the Dionysian GENERATOR blog, where Cody describes it as “a beautiful …
A Poet’s “Sense Sublime” – Part III, “Some Tragic Falling Off”
Language is that which gives rise to difference, to the desire for difference, and, at the same time, the desire …
Our Quest for Wholeness – Part II of “Some Tragic Falling Off”
“Duality, difference, and desire presuppose “some tragic falling off” from an original (mythical or otherwise) world of undivided wholeness.” So …
“Some Tragic Falling Off” into Difference and Desire
I’ve been thinking a lot about desire and loss lately and remembering a paper I wrote exploring this topic. It …
Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass
Meditation at Lagunitas By Robert Hass All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old …
Cultivating “a mind of winter”
I fell in love with Wallace Stevens’ poetry when I first read “The Idea of Order at Key West” in …
