Category Archives: 06/25/2020

How far away from who we are can we live without developing symptoms, incurring the wrath of the neglected life and being lost in the wasteland of endless discontent? And, when we are born into a cultural and social ecosystem which denies there is an Axis Mundi, or “center pole/axis,” or “essential identity,” for eachContinue reading “May 12-A, 2023”

What’s your point? What are you here for? Why are you here? What are you doing here? Your point is to laugh at these questions, and on on about your business without caring what your point is. What’s the point of a moose? Of a daffodil? Of a dew drop? Of a snow flake? OfContinue reading “May 11-B, 2023”

Awareness and clarity are the solutions to all of our problems today and every day. Seeing is knowing is doing is being is looking is seeing is knowing… We look but don’t see because we don’t want to see, because seeing has implications for us and the way we want things to be. Those whoContinue reading “May 10-B, 2023”

One of my problems with theology is its readiness to refuse all questions that cannot be answered by taking every assertion on faith. “This is so because I take it on faith,” is a declaration demanding that everyone within hearing distance of the speaker walk away. Intellectual inconsistencies become “great paradoxes” that have to beContinue reading “May 09-B, 2023”

We can’t help how we see things. How we feel about things. How we think about things. But, if we work at it, we can see that we cannot help how we see things. We think that how we see things is how things are. And the discrepancy between how we see things and howContinue reading “May 09-A,2023”

Asking the questions that beg to be asked and saying the things that cry out to be said are the foundation of realization. If we aren’t digging, digging, digging into all the assumptions, commonplaces, expectations, things taken for granted, sacred presumptions, and holy ground, within and without, we are going to serve the same oldContinue reading “May 08-A, 2023”

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people,” has a nice ring to it, but. It won’t pay the bills– particularly the kind of bills Clarence Thomas and members of Congress like to ring up. The motto has to be tweaked a bit to get it right: “Government of the Corporations, by theContinue reading “May 06-B, 2023”

The black trunks in the image are the trees’ attempt to heal themselves where elk have peeled away and eaten bark in the winter months. Both trees and elk are doing their best with what they have to work with to make things work as well as they can. You and I are right inContinue reading “May 06-A, 2023”

When Carl Jung was asked if he believed in God, he replied: “I do not believe. I know.” I would have said, “I do not believe in believing.” “God” as we have been taught of “God” exists only as the production/projection of human beings, forced onto us by an orthodox priesthood with their livelihood atContinue reading “May 05-B, 2023”

What stirs your interest? Piques your curiosity? Ignites your passion? Catches your eye? Calls your name? Encourages your participation? How many of those things are in a day? A week? A month? How can you restructure your life to include more of those things in your days, weeks, months? If you are plodding through tooContinue reading “May 05-A, 2023”

The worst thing that ever happens to us can also be among the best things that ever happens to us. Our worst experiences can be our best experiences. Bad can also be good. Good can also be bad. Things are not one way only. We have to expand our mind to take into account theContinue reading “May 04-B, 2023”

There is nothing we cannot deny. Denial keeps us where we are. If it weren’t for denial, where might we be? Denial is a superpower in a negative sense. Recovering alcoholics know about the power of denial– and the power of looking denial in the eye, facing the truth of the legitimate pain of life,Continue reading “May 04, 2023 – A”