Category: Spirituality
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We’re All Connected
As you sit or stand there reading this on your computer or your phone, you’re connected to me. You have a direct line to my mind and my personality. Some of the ideas I write about become part of you and you spread them to others around you, and they spread them to others.…
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The Moments We Live For
Life is a series of moments laid out on a long, undulating film strip, each individual strip intersecting with those of others, sometimes merging, and although some people’s moments are in the same time and place, each perspective is unique. There are highs and lows where the focus is perfect and the details are crystal…
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Purple Stars
This is from a lucid dream and astral projection I experienced on 10/29/12 I was taking some kind of philosophy class, located in some kind of strip mall. I left the class to retrieve something (I forget what), and went through the mall, down the escalator, and I kept getting sidetracked by conversations with people.…
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Sounds
I just spent the last two hours in my backyard enjoying the day, enjoying the sights and sounds, the smells and the sensations. For thirty minutes I lay in the grass on my back, eyes closed, listening to everything I could hear. Many species of birds chirped and cawed and sang, and I was able…
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Morning
The first trace of day appears on the horizon, a dim, surreal pink conflating with the dark blues of the atmosphere, breeding an ephemeral tinge of beauty. A low-hanging cloud begins to glow a slowly brightening red, then orange, from its edges to its heart, and a white-throated sparrow awakens from his slumber, whistling his…
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People and the World
When I stop to think about the world and its 7 billion people, it blows my mind. As I write this I’m waiting to get my oil changed. The TV in the room is on the news, covering the happenings in the USA. Storms spewing softball-sized hail, murder trials, gunmen holding kids hostage, ideas for…
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Reality Is Subjective
Most people have the idea that the world, the universe, is an objective reality. It exists independently of us, independently of perceivers. For example, a tree is a tree. Regardless of whether I perceive the tree or an ant perceives the tree, the tree is the same thing. It has its own objective reality which…
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Your Life Is an Unbelievable Coincidence
How many times have you come reasonably close to dying? Probably more than you know. Yet you’re still alive, reading this post. Take all of those close calls and multiply by 100, going back along your ancestry for 100 generations. Yet you’re still alive, reading this post. Isn’t it unbelievable that despite all odds, you’re…
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Amadahy and the Raindrop
The rainstorm was a welcome break from the midsummer heat, but as suddenly as it had come, so did it vanish, leaving a thick dampness which caught on their skin. Quickly evaporating from the earth under the brilliant sun, the fallen rain misted and rose in billowing columns, creating a surreal landscape in which the…
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The Beauty of Our World
When we think of the beauty of our world, we usually first imagine a Caribbean sunset, a glassy mountain lake reflecting snowcapped mountains in the early summer, a sunny morning after a blizzard, a beautiful, fit girl in a skimpy bikini, or any number of classically beautiful sights. Of course this…