I fell in love with a camera when I saw a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera on a pool side table in a black-and-white made for TV movie as I walked through our living room on my way to the kitchen when I was a Junior in college. I felt the attraction throughout my body, and could not have dismissed, discounted, ignored the experience–my most memorial impact with intuitive knowing–although it took several years for me to explore its meaning and make photography the central aspect of my life throughout my life.
I think of intuition as an extension of Psyche, and of Psyche as “the other” in Carl Jung’s statement, “There is in each of us another, who we do not know.” Time spent coming to know, explore and serve “the other who lives within” is the sole purpose of being alive, and it is a travesty that we spend so much time with religion and trying to get to heaven when we die instead of doing what it takes to be alive in the time left for living in the life we could be living if we would only wake up and seek out The Other within. Why we are not told this early on and led in the way of inner knowing is the gravest failure and greatest injustice of humanity’s refusal to train its young in the ways of heart and soul. We could do better even yet.
For instance, we could intentionally teach our children about the importance of using self-induced trance states as a pathway to The Other’s world, so that playing a musical instrument, or drawing, painting (even painting houses), reading, writing, etc. put us in “the zone” of being available to The Other’s influence and leanings, so that our communion is established and the reality of The Other within leads to the central place of “The Muse” in our life throughout our life, and the transformation of life and the world as we experience both.
Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 
I am always left feeling stunned by photos like this! In addition, your words today leave me with much to think about. In my younger years, even though I had a structured work life that took my energy, I always followed an inner yearning to study certain philosophies and concepts and joined study circles to discuss them. I did not go to college, but enjoyed following my interests and intuition in a rather haphazard way.
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“Haphazard” is the key to a well-lived life. That and not being able to explain to anyone’s satisfaction why we do what we do beyond, “It is who I am. It is what I do.”
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I used to go to Crown Books in West Los Angeles back in the 1980’s and see which books “spoke to me.” One of the first books I found was Fritjof Capra’s “The Tao of Physics,” which led me to my first study group based on his book called The Elmwood Circle. We met at UCLA and I followed others from that group to one called “The Imaginal Disc” that was based on the metaphor of the discs inside the caterpillar that hold the parts of the emerging butterfly being like small groups of people who develop the various concepts of an emerging paradigm, like so many being developed now in our various protest groups. Indivisible was the one I joined in Asheville after Trump’s 2015 election as well as joining my local Buncombe Democrats.
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You are well on track to maintaining/sustaining your balance and harmony in what I think of as “Communities of Innocence,” innocent in the sense of having nothing to gain from each other beyond the mutual benefit of acceptance, encouragement, purpose and direction, something we all need to maintain our equilibrium and our sense of humor!
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This a beautiful picture!
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