03 Apr

Posted at 12:09h in Observations

Religious practices vary considerably such that there is no scholarly consensus about what precisely constitutes a religion. However, religions are generally founded on matters supernatural, transcendental and spiritual. Standing on this foundation, all early adherents are on equal footing. As more adherents join a religion, structures are built upon its foundation to house them. The structures have many stories, stories upon stories; each sustaining the story above it. The most desirable living spaces in these building structures are those with the best views, those on the highest stories, the stories raised to reach the heavens. These living spaces are given to religious leaders and their wealthy supporters. Then, all adherents are no longer on equal footing. In fact, as soon as the structures are a couple of stories tall, their foundations are buried underground and not visible. All that remains are the stories. to exit the building, there are two ways out, the basement and jumping out....

26 Dec

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

I often don't remember what others claim I've said, but remember, in great detail, what others have said to me. Maybe what goes inside my head is mine and what leaves my head is someone else's. ...

09 Dec

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

Our memory is the repository of all we know. Realizing our memory is an illusion, we realize we know nothing. Then we can experience reality as never before, as there never was a before....

21 Apr

Posted at 10:15h in Framework, I Am Time, Observations

In college, I had three LSD psychedelic journeys of which I have distinct memories. One was of my wanting to eat my brain. I felt that my mind and body were a duality. If I ate my brain, my mind and my body would be one. The second was looking at a painting and seeing its colors dripping beyond its frame and onto the floor. The third was when I was wallowing naked in mud in the backyard of my parents' attached house in Brooklyn and saw myself holding onto Earth with dear life as it was spinning incredibly fast and I as afraid I would otherwise fall away from Earth and into endless space. Looking back now, the first journey was the recognition of the duality between our animal consciousness (the body) and divine consciousness (the mind) and our purpose in life which is to integrate the two as a whole. The second revealed that no thing is an independent thing, as it is our mind that creates the forms and shapes of things which are otherwise one interconnected and interdependent thing in the now. The third journey suggested that if we let go our self-identity (Earth life), we will be one with the universe....

08 Apr

Posted at 10:15h in Framework, Observations

A dear subscriber to our blog "had a very good friend who recently passed away from a heart attack while riding his bike. He was in his late 60's." And now, "the void...

04 Aug

Posted at 10:15h in I Am Time, Observations

"Someday people will understand what you are talking about and I'm sure this world will be a better place for it, but sure as hell I'll never understand." -- Inscription in my high school graduation album from a fellow graduating student. Those sure there is hell don't know of heaven, for heaven is all there is....

27 May

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

The British-American author and journalist Christopher Eric Hitchens (1949–2011)…once recounted a story about Chou En-lai, who served as the first Premier of the People’s Republic of China from 1954 until his death in 1976. According to Hitchens, Chou had been invited to speculate on how the course of history would have been altered if, say, Nikita Khrushchev had been assassinated instead of John F. Kennedy. Chou’s austere version of Marxism made him dubious about the importance of things like sheer accident and mere individuals. But in this instance, he was prepared to allow that things might have been different. How different? “Well,” said Chou with complete gravity, “I hardly think that Aristotle Onassis would have married Mrs. Khrushchev.”...

17 Mar

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are leftist cities; those who still live there are politically on the left and those who aren't have left. It's like a virus, either you are the virus (you are left) or you've had enough of the virus and have left. Those who know the consequences of having the virus for a long period leave to live in other cities. Those who are the virus are hopefully slow in their migration to other cities. The virus is an ideology. Those who conform and live according to the left ideology are not human; they are the ideology. Those who can observe and reflect on how real life unfolds know the impracticality of the left ideology. They are generally ok humoring the ideology but don't want to be prisoners of it. Those who have left may find the foregoing funny, unless those who are left have invaded their reasonably well-functioning cities. Those who are left cannot find it funny because viruses don't have a sense of humor. Governments created the virus in a lab. The work of highly educated people....