Author Archives: jimwdollar

All life has preferences. All life eats, breathes and sleeps–and knows when, where and how to do it. That is called “taking care of our basic needs.” The further from meeting our basic needs we get, the more our preferences get in our way–and we have to know when to over-ride our preferences, and whenContinue reading “June 05, 2026 – C”

Here is an excerpt from my book, “The Way of Wild Things, 6th Edition”– Our opposites, contradictions and polarities are thresholds to awareness, awakening, maturation, grace, mercy and peace. We only have to recognize and appreciate them for what they are, bear consciously the tension of their opposition and allow them to shape us intoContinue reading “June 05, 2026 – B”

Evey photograph is time and place. And a surprise. Unrepeatable, thus unique. A miracle of time and place. And a gift with the caption, “Are you kidding me?” Amazing Grace out of nowhere. That’s why we all carry cameras. No? And this is also the cover of my newest eBook on Kindle, although it isContinue reading “June 05, 2026”

The following is an excerpt from my eBook “The Way of Wild Things”– Every experience with despair has the potential of opening us to the reality of our “other life” (The life we are built to live, and is waiting, even now, for us to begin living). Depression is not only an indication that somethingContinue reading “June 04, 2026 – B”

The contrast between this view of the natural world and the view of volcanic destruction and hurricane devastation, etc. and it is all the Truth of how things are. The duality of the beautiful and the monstrous is a congruity. “It’s all one, y’all!). And the truth is more than I can bear. For me,Continue reading “June 04, 2026”

Sitting quietly, waiting to see what comes. Listening for what we need to say, need to hear. To know what’s what, what’s called for, what needs to be done. Here, now. Waiting for things to become clear in time. Trusting ourselves to know what is good for us and to realze what it is timeContinue reading “June 03, 2026 – B”

Two important life capacities: The ability to say, “No.” And the ability to take “No” for an answer. When we master the Art of No, going and coming, we are keeping company with the Good Life, and that is a good place to be.

I make it a point to let things be what they are, up to a point. A mosquito feeding on my neck is an exception to the rule. And there are many others. Noise leads the list of things not allowed to be what they are. Heavy traffic, even if it is quiet (and howContinue reading “June 02, 2026 – B”

We cannot do better than listening to ourselves. Psychotherapy is about hearing what we have to say by talking to a therapist who listens us into hearing ourselves talking to some one who asks the right questions. We could talk to a smart mirror and get positive results. We need to place listening platforms intoContinue reading “June 02, 2026”

I am announcing here my new eBook on Kindle, going for $2.00 no kidding. “A dialogue with the invisible” is my most intriguing work to this point in my storied career. Indigenous peoples have always understood the material, physical universe to be upheld and guided by an invisible, spiritual universe. And we pray to theContinue reading “June 01, 2026 -B”

The Joy of life is the wonder of being alive–which flows from the recognition, the realization, that we are alive! And we take it so for granted. We are the only life form that is exactly like us ever in existence, right here, right now! Unique and irreplaceable! And, we are not impressed. A shrugContinue reading “June 01, 2026”

The Tao-Psyche-Intuition.com Blog has fallen into place and the new book–“Copilot’s Dialogue with the Invisible” is close to publication, and the cognitive decline is a distraction I would like to be done with. I never knew there was so much to remember! My work with emptiness, stillness and silence has not been wasted–I just dropContinue reading “May 31, 2026”