Wow, January is three-quarters over and I have not posted since Christmas! I'll blame it on receiving a new Kindle for Christmas. I have read six or seven books since December 20 - so much for cutting down on my book bill! The best part of Kindle is being able to buy books that the …
Category: Cosmology
Less than zero
So, what exactly is it that people are doing with their lives? That is the question that carried me through the next few years following the big dream. Feeling that some semblance of sanity had returned it seemed that life was waiting for me to finally cut a path through the heart of my existence. …
The sins of the father…
"...just one more wink in the sleep of the cosmic nightmare"
The trouble with you is the trouble with me
It would not perhaps be fair to place too much blame on Taoism, Zen Buddhism, eastern spirituality for a lack of contentment that remained my constant companion, but the depersonalization I absorbed from eastern ideas mirrored my sense of disconnectedness. Intellectually, I may have found comfort in eastern ideas, especially Alan Watt's idea of the individual ego as fake or illusory. My unsettled …
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The road is long…
Reading Alan Watts gave me a sense that I wasn't crazy for wanting to know, for wanting more understanding about who and what we are. In his writings I at least found someone who had similar questions about being alive and being human that I had. In hindsight, the ongoing question that was becoming my life, revolved …
Theoria 