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The Role of Spirituality in the Evolution of Consciousness – Part 2: On the Relationship Between Time, Meaning, Consciousness, and Human Agency

Part two of a two-part Holos Earth Project talk: time, meaning, consciousness and human agency, drawing Weber, Goethe, Yunkaporta, Corbin, Kingsley, McGilchrist and Nietzsche into the Compass Rose of Consciousness. Library

The pattern of life is not woven ahead of time, like cloth to be worn later as a tunic. Rather, life is woven at the very instant you live it.

“The pattern of life is not woven ahead of time, like cloth to be worn later as a tunic. Rather, life is woven at the very instant you live it.” – Brian Bates, The Way of Wyrd In the foreword to his historical novel, The Way of Wyrd, psychologist and shamanic consciousness researcher Brian Bates […] Essay

A Medley of Fools Heralds the Journey Within the Journey – Part IV

Part IV of The Way of the Fool: the many faces of the Fool — holy fool, jester, innocent — and the journey within the journey they herald. Library

Walking makes the path, and on glancing back one sees the path that will never be trod again.

Wanderer, your footprints are the path, and nothing else; wanderer, there is no path, the path is made by walking. Walking makes the path, and on glancing back one sees the path that will never be trod again. Wanderer, there is no path— Just your wake in the sea. taken from: “Proverbios y cantares XXIX” […] Library

The Tao is simply an expression of first principles. For those who do not perceive its rationality, even universal consent could not prove it.

“A hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.” The Abolition of Man was first given as a series of lectures in 1943. The lectures dealt largely with the dangers of moral relativism – a subject that increasingly was to occupy Lewis’ mind as he noted the destructive trends emerging in the modern […] Library

Until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do…

“You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower; until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and […] Library

Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and follows a meaning, a higher purpose for life?

Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall. To stall in the air is for them disgrace and it is dishonour. But Jonathan Livingston Seagull, unashamed, stretching his wings again in that trembling hard curve – slowing, slowing, and stalling once more – was no ordinary bird. […] “…one day, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, you shall […] Poem

There are things we cannot do on our own

Written on 13 February 2016. Poem

My Gallows Star

A rope of light let down from a distant star, and the darkness that both lights it and holds us apart. Poem

I Am Your Vessel, Not Your Captain

Written for my son on his birthday, on being his vessel and not his captain. Poem

The Masterpiece of Art

We are each born an artist, and the masterpiece is the shaping of our own soul, worked at from 1998 to 2000.

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