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There Is An Other and I Care
Once, in ceremonial space, I went to work trying to arrive at a clear articulation of the fundamental principles of human reality. Drum roll, please. It all came down to two principles: 1. There is an other. 2. I care. Now, this seemed strange to me. First because it was so simple. (Then I remembered that was me … Read more
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Love Everything You Do
Love Everything You Do The world is there to be loved If you love everything you do the world lights up. You have one thousand excuses for why you can’t love everything you do. I know. I have used them all to keep myself miserable. When your house is built upon these excuses the power … Read more
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Colin Wilson’s Levels of Consciousness
In his book, Super Consciousness: The Quest for Peak Experience, Colin Wilson lays out his philosophy of life, which I wrote about in my last post. Toward the end of that book, Colin Wilson, began thinking about how many levels of consciousness he could identify. The levels reflect how much “power consciousness” we possess, that is, … Read more
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Beyond the Robot
I’ve been reading a book about literary critic, novelist, philosopher and lay psychologist, Colin Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) by Gary Lachman, and another by Wilson himself. Although Wilson has written somewhere close to one hundred books, I had never heard of him until I read Lachman’s biography. Born of humble stock … Read more
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Our Birth Is But a Sleep and a Forgetting
When my nephew was two years old, he told his mother about “purgatory”. Neither of his parents were religious and he had never been to church. His grandparents were Protestant and would have had no reason to discuss purgatory with him. Then he told his mother, “everything is wuv, (love), mommy.” Today he has no … Read more
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