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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Category Archives: Human Consciousness

Making Music Wherever We Go – The Rhymes and Rhythms that Move Us

August 3, 2014

Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross To see a fine lady upon a fine horse. Rings on her fingers …

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Dreaming of Death—Oops, Bears

May 21, 2014

I’m going to die. Soon. That’s what I thought, waking one morning, remembering three distinct dreams, each in which I …

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A Dream Within a Dream Within a . . .

April 6, 2014

My daughter’s wedding day had arrived and everything that could go wrong went wrong.  We arrived at the church only …

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Layers of Reality in Bergman’s “Franny and Alexander,” and in Us

April 1, 2014

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

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“You are the Eternal Universe” – Alan Watts

March 26, 2014

I found this amazing video “You are the Eternal Universe” on the Dionysian GENERATOR blog, where Cody describes it as “a beautiful …

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A Poet’s “Sense Sublime” – Part III, “Some Tragic Falling Off”

February 12, 2014

Language is that which gives rise to difference, to the desire for difference, and, at the same time, the desire …

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Our Quest for Wholeness – Part II of “Some Tragic Falling Off”

January 26, 2014

“Duality, difference, and desire presuppose “some tragic falling off” from an original (mythical or otherwise) world of undivided wholeness.” So …

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“Some Tragic Falling Off” into Difference and Desire

January 19, 2014

I’ve been thinking a lot about desire and loss lately and remembering a paper I wrote exploring this topic. It …

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Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass

January 16, 2014

Meditation at Lagunitas By Robert Hass All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old …

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Cultivating “a mind of winter”

January 2, 2014

I fell in love with Wallace Stevens’ poetry when I first read “The Idea of Order at Key West” in …

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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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