When I was a child I worked with my father on a wooden toy boat. I recall the tiller very clearly. You had the jib sail and the mainsail and the hull and the rudder. The wind decided the velocity and the course and the relative tightness of the sails and the movement of the …
My father and a toy boat and the essential truth of all professions Read More »
I wounded myself recently. Gosh, it hurt. But, one reflects and questions the source of the pain metaphysically. That was the focus of Dr Georg Groddeck. I fathomed some of that meta story with due objectivity. I injured my ribs. I’m incredibly fit – I walk or cycle 4 to 20 miles a day. I …
I like where I live. There are brown people and white people and black people and everything and everyone in between. Krishna and Christ have, essentially the same root. One teaches not to be attached to the fruit of ones endeavors and maps out a story of meaning on a battlefield. The other surrenders to …
Consciousness contains elixirs of potential – the question is, how do you or I cash in on them? How do we cultivate them? When you look at the work of Robert A Johnson and many other traditions also, you find clues. Johnson was a Jungian psychotherapist. He went to India and he saw the spires …
There is no question that generations from now our descendants will sail out into new solar systems. That evolution is natural and clear from what has gone before. As Arthur C Clarke said: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. Technology though, as such, is not our problem. A poor workman blames his tools. …
Sustainability as another worthy form of magic, also. Read More »
Charity is very simple. It is this: to see the good in others – even when they can’t see it in themselves. There is no sacrifice in such an action. There is a growth in the sense of union, there is reason for good humor and positivity and acclaim. What do you acclaim? What is …
Few doctors learn much about nutrition but at the seat of culture is good food and family and friends. I admire the work of Dr Steve Gundry – his research is insightful – into lectins and the way we mis-bred and mis-feed cattle. I subscribe to his newsletter and I find it to be heavily …
People live on only 1 or 2 floors of a large apartment building which is our minds, forgetting the rest. In ordinary life, we can get stuck in a single story, a story that is worn and cramped, living on just 1 level of a many-storied house that could be palace of possibility~ Carl Jung
Pythagoras’s math is often interested in 1-9. His teacher Abaris the skywalker from Ancient Mongolia taught him the enneagram. The oldest personality model we have that is in intact. A child’s personality formed by 4. And there were 9 main types and 1 that was split – the 6. The 9 enneatypes, starting with the …