Keith “Maggie” Brown

  • Grace Jones – Use Me

    My buddy-friend-guy Chris listens to so much great music and watches so many awesome videos. And until recently when his searches landed on Ms. Jones, I had forgotten how greatly I enjoyed her music way back in the 80’s. Continue reading

  • How Fast is Exponential Growth? (Or, Yao Ming Confronts the Vastness of the Universe)

    Originally posted on Math with Bad Drawings: On this humble brown planet, we’re used to things growing at a steady pace. Trees add a ring every year. Families expand by one child or marriage at a time. Even in their… Continue reading

  • When I take off my vulnerability armor and allow myself to be seen…..

    Originally posted on OutTales around the Fire: One of the many things I love about storytelling is that each time a story is told, something is always discovered or rediscovered by the storyteller. No matter how many times I tell… Continue reading

  • I contradict myself

    I post something about atheism then write a poem on the Transcendence to the Divine. I throw up the scriblings of mystics but then put forward the theorems of materialists. I co-translate the Dao de Jing yet entertain the truth… Continue reading

    I contradict myself
  • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.… Continue reading

  • Max Stirner

    Because our time is struggling toward the word with which it may express its spirit, many names come to the fore and all make claim to being the right one. […] Without our assistance, time will not bring the right… Continue reading

  • Red White and Robotic

    Originally posted on Riled Risibility: A well-loved holiday staple in the west, the candy cane elicits in many feelings of peppermint laced winter wonder and sentiments of snow-covered good cheer. Most associate the sugary treats with Christmas cookies, ornaments, and… Continue reading

  • Mysterium Magnum

    Another of Jakob Böhme’s ciphers of the mysterium magnum appearing in his Theosophische Wercke (1682). The All Seeing Eye beholds the Phoenix Reborn. This is the Psyche/Soul transcending the encircling lifeworld. The break in the Ouroboros is the Nothing betwixt… Continue reading

  • Centrum Naturae

    “When thou art gone forth wholly from the creature [human], and art become nothing to all that is nature and creature, then thou art in that eternal one, which is God himself, and then thou shalt perceive and feel the… Continue reading

  • Zen of Spring

    Originally posted on monk's designs: monk's designs View original post Continue reading

  • elective affinity

    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — C.G. Jung Related articles piercing intension (keithwaynebrown.com) No Nostalgia Sundays: The (Dead) Flowers of Regret (letterstodionysus.com) Companionship (kyohinaa.wordpress.com) Venture into… Continue reading

    elective affinity
  • quiet transformation

    Silence is the best alchemy. — Rumi Related articles Ageless Wisdom (keithwaynebrown.com) Rabia, Rumi’s Inspiration: How will you ever find peace unless you yield to love (eternalstudentship.wordpress.com) If You Need Me, I’ll Be In Rumi’s Field (lucykaufman.wordpress.com) Let Me Be Mad,… Continue reading

    quiet transformation
  • Genesis: Whip of the Wild God – Part I

    Originally posted on mira prabhu: Neither of us being in the mood for the frenetic end-of-year partying for which Manhattan is justly famed, a friend and I decided to spend the last few days of 1993 at Ananda Ashram in… Continue reading

  • Summer Solstice

    Originally posted on Keithpp's Blog: Summer Solstice Stonehenge Summer Solstice, 21 June, the longest day. Stonehenge, an ancient astronomical clock. As the sun rises on the Summer Solstice, the sun is exactly in line with the gap in the circle.… Continue reading

  • What is thesis?

    Originally posted on The Revolution Will Not Be Taylorized: A thesis makes a speculative proposition about what architecture could be. Based upon an informed critique of conventional models (be they conventional models of building, understanding, or designing,) this proposition tests… Continue reading

  • Article: Stonehenge Revealed: Why Stones Were a “Special Place”

    Stonehenge Revealed: Why Stones Were a “Special Place” http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130621-stonehenge-summer-solstice-archaeology-science/ Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading