Most of you will be familiar with the nursery rhyme: Star light, star bright, First star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, Have this wish I wish tonight. My current wish is a clearer understanding of what is meant by "observation" in various physics paradigms, and how this relates (if at all) to Awareness as the final, ultimate perceiver/observer. Starry Night I'll be returning …
Particles For A Coverlet
Translation We trekked into a far country, My friend and I. Our deeper content was never spoken, But each knew all the other said. He told me how calm his soul was laid By the lack of anvil and strife. “The wooing kestrel,” I said, “mutes his mating-note To please the harmony of this sweet silence.” And when at the day’s end We laid tired bodies ’gainst The loose warm sands, And the …
Practice Notes: Prodigal Children
The Parable of the Prodigal Son In the parable of the prodigal son—shared by Jesus with his disciples—a father has two sons. The older son stays close to home, being faithful to his familial duties and frugal with his funds. The younger son takes his inheritance and leaves town, wanders far and wide, and lives in a reckless, wasteful and extravagant way. Eventually—with his fortune squandered, …
Axioms
Axioms for Wildness Alive to the thrill Of the wild. Meet the dawn On a mountain. Wash your face In the morning dew. Feel the favor of the earth. Go out naked in the wind, Your skin Almost Aeolian. With the music inside, Dance like there is no outside. Become subtle enough To hear a tree breathe. Sleep by the ocean, Letting yourself unfurl Like the reeds that …
Practice Notes: Detective Work, Part Two
To continue our exploration of the anesthesia experience, let’s now consider the recording and projecting capacities of the human brain—which all evidence reveals to be a super-sophisticated electrochemical device which plays a central role in the creation of our sensory and cognitive experience. Much of how the human organism thinks, perceives and interacts with the surrounding environment has …
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Instead
Lily No one would take her when Ruth passed. As the survivors assessed some antiques, I kept hearing, "She's old. Somebody should put her down." I picked her up instead. Every night I tell her about the fish who died for her, the ones in the cheerful aluminum cans. She lies on my chest to sleep, rising and falling, rising and falling like a rowboat fastened to a battered dock by a …