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Time and Meaning

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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 […] Library

What is wrong with peace that its inspiration does not endure and that it is almost untellable?

“The world seems to be sinking into dusk but I recount, as in the beginning, in my sing-song voice which sustains me saved by my tale from present confusion and troubles and protected for the future. Finished with the sweeping over the centuries with going and back forth, as in the past. Now I can […] 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” […] Story

The Right Time for Coffee But Not for the Boy

'I don't have to make you packed lunches to love you,' says the Mother. A story of a boy who learns to fend for himself, and of love measured out. Library

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead

In some such way as this we could gather up these strewn and scattered petals of song into one perfect rose of life, and yet, perhaps, in so doing, we might be missing the true quality of the poems; one’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead; and beautiful poems, […] Library

You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it.

You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. Jean de La Fontaine, Book VIII, Fable 16 Library

The Word grants a stay of execution

“…to God’s least creature is given voice for speech, or for song – a sign that it has found a way; to bind together, and stretch life’s limits, whether an hour or a day.” by Joseph Brodsky 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. Story

The Lifer

Short Story About the Awakening to an Imprisonment

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