This Internal-External Realities Meditation comes from the final section of A Million Different Things: Meditations of The World’s Happiest Man. It’s concerned with the strange, maybe imaginary, border between our internal and external realities.
Words and ultimate reality… To know something about ultimate reality, must we put it in words? Must insight about conscious awareness be verbal? If either thing is true, we’re in trouble because our languages haven’t been very good at explaining even what we think we know so far.
Bring back the hippies! You can see where letting conservatives bury our rebellion got us. Hippies were anti-Trump before Trump. We took on worse devils in Johnson and Nixon, and they’ve tried to beat us back for fifty years.
Christa loved her freckles until everyone started calling her Polka-Dot Girl. Soon she doubts her own beauty and the strength of her friendships. Will she be able to connect the dots and realize the power of love?
A Million Different Things: …And Night, Meditation #1 by David Stone Rambling on… That’s what life is, you know, a ramble. I changed my thinking a while back about how all that apparent motion goes. Like most, I’ve thought of my life’s course as passing along a trail, […]
About Going Home Illusions… There must once have been at least a jiffy of wholeness, a twinkle in the cohesion of seamless belonging. Every cell may contain the residues in its universal library. Our desire to rejoin seasons every step, pushing against the gravity of reason. It’s a […]
Beyond evolution…? For most of us, a realization that there may be no God and that the whole shebang we’re living is a meaningless hodgepodge is as demoralizing as anything else percolating through the shrouds in those lost hours between midnight and dawn.
Was It Evolution? is from Amazing: Truths About Conscious Awareness What’s next for evolution after a community conquers the challenges hovering outside and lurking inside, the great mass of them anyway? It weakens. It must. Just as rivers slow when banks are breached.
Meditation on an Inner Voice is #13 from the middle section, Noon, in A Million Different Things: Meditations of The World’s Happiest Man. It’s concerned with an inner voice or spiritual helper.
The old days are calling… it wasn’t, and still isn’t, necessary to go back very far to find radical contrasts.