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Our “Gnostic within” is our intuitive inner guide that first appeared as Gnosticism, “secret, inner knowing” following Jesus’ execution in the first century CE. Intuition has been with us always but was taken to be “the voice of God” early on. Plato (428-348 BCE) and others after him up to Carl Jung, and others afterContinue reading “January 13, 2026”

What keeps me going is seeing what’s next and what I do about it, in response to it. What happens and what we do about it, in response to it, is the essence of life, the grounding foundation of being alive. With its suspenseful question left hanging, “And then what happened?” How can anyone liveContinue reading “January 11, 2026”

Democracy has officially ended in the not-so-united-states. And I don’ t see how we are going to get it back. ICE agents are authorized to kill anyone who tries to put things back in place. The Justice Department has disappeared. Congress is no more than a formality and may as well disappear along with theContinue reading “January 10, 2026”

We get up and face the day, day after day, and how well we do that over timetells the tale. It is never any more difficult than doing what is called for where, when and how it is called for, day after day. No?

If we only knew what to do, when, where and how! We would have no anxiety, fear, uncertainty, anguish or despair. It would be a simple matter of doing what needs to be done, when, where and how, and letting that be that. Of course, we would have to be grown up about it, andContinue reading “January 08, 2026”

Drop out of the world crumbling into madness and absurdity without boundaries or values, and drop into the world of our own solidarity and trustworthiness. Seek out our own heart and the truth of what matters most to us here, now. What would that be? Emptying ourselves of the noise of the world and theContinue reading “January 07, 2026”

Beaver’s have a way of life that runs afoul of Park Rangers and that was the end of beavers along the Parkway. If you are in the way, you are soon to be out of the way, just for doing what you are built to do and what you have always done. Life is thatContinue reading “January 06, 2026”

Treason and sedition from within were responsible for the Civil War and threaten the end of the Republic to this very day–lead by people who hate people not like they are and think money and power are the solution all of their problems. The old Taoists knew it all came down to doing the rightContinue reading “January 05, 2026”