community

  • ▶ Denton Coffee Culture – YouTube

    Proud to be a part of coffee’s community of service in Denton and Denton County. Prouder to know so many of the great folks in these videos. As the specialty coffee industry continues to grow, quality coffee has become more… Continue reading

    ▶ Denton Coffee Culture – YouTube
  • Dawning Jedi

    This semester, I find myself contributing to a number of university courses. One is Metaphysics. As designed by my colleague, the class moves between classical metaphysics (what we have thought about Being in the past) and transhumanist metaphysics (what human… Continue reading

    Dawning Jedi
  • Cultivating Non-Intellection

    Q: If I follow this Way, and refrain from intellectual prooesscs and conceptual thinking, shall I be cenain of attaining the goal? A: Such non-intellection ts following the Way! Why this talk of attaining and not attaining? The matter is thus–by thinking of something… Continue reading

  • Richard Mills Owsley

    Today marks the 10th anniversary of my dear mentor & friend’s passing. I miss him a great deal at times. But usually I know he is still on-going as that thinking which was his life’s vocation and which he passed… Continue reading

  • Thinking without Personal Recognition

    Youth: where is the bathroom? Sage: Evacuating the illusion of identity obtains to #Emptiness that never hungers, feeds, & yet seeks more. February 15, 2013 What a narrative: 50 I’s, my’s, myself’s, me’s, and Keith Wayne Brown’s are identifiable. Is… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20130213

    Fretfully making, busily doing, absent the leisurely stretch that birthed Mona Lisa; heedless we run, without time for thinking’s yawning abyss: profound boredom.    Continue reading

  • Thinking Beyond Yourself

    “The time [being 36 yrs old] is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. ― C.G. Jung, Symbols of Transformation Continue reading

  • 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person | Cracked.com

    LET’S DO THIS. “Do what?” you ask. I DON’T KNOW. LET’S FIGURE THAT OUT TOGETHER, MOTHERFUCKERS. Feel free to stop reading this if your career is going great, you’re thrilled with your life and you’re happy with your relationships. Enjoy… Continue reading

  • Karl Jaspers on the Struggle for Existence

    My existence as such deprives others, just as they deprive me. Every position I occupy excludes another, claiming some of the limited space available. Every success I have diminishes others. My very life is due to the victorious struggle of my forebears, and… Continue reading

  • The Brilliant Maelstrom of Possibility

    Two good posts on our emerging and merging realization of the Comprehensive Life-Breath (SOUL, PSYCHE, ANIMA, ATMAN) by Soul-Spelunker: We are swirling within Souls Maelstrom. Round and round we go in this world, and ever downward. But, as we move… Continue reading

  • Liberation in the 21st Century « Becoming Integral

    Report on Liberation Theology in Africa from my good brother Sam Mickey over at Becoming Integral…   The good news is that those outdated ideals are changing.  As this conference in Ghana shows, young scholars and activists are taking up… Continue reading

  • Are the Boomers Screwing the Millennials? | Rightly Understood | Big Think

    Nice piece very much in line with many things I have been saying over the last two years. It is bleak, certainly bleaker than the way generational expert Neil Howe sees things turning out. Thanks to my friend Heather Davis… Continue reading

  • Opposing Views on What the American Public Provides

    The notion of fair taxation is based on three ideals: First, taxes are a way to reimburse the community for what it has provided beforehand. This is about reciprocity. Second, taxes are a way to maintain freedom in America, by… Continue reading

  • Together Alone Coming Down Later

    After doing prostrations, bending old body into the smoke-filled interior of the strange bedding, mind detaches from flowing world. Ages pass into moments pass into chaos pass into stillness where all these perennial teachings push me to transgress, to overcome,… Continue reading

  • Crowds & Groups

    When does a community become a crowd? When does a group become a communion? Disconnected from neighbors Dwelling in an area near by each other Yet most alone when side by side Dwindling spark of concern Loving some closely Loving… Continue reading