The ENCOMPASSING

November 4, 2012

Textimony 20121104

In decisive existence, reason embraces emotion & passion, undoing fear’s grip so that desire may touch our great possibility in this Beautiful Order: Freedom. Continue reading

October 13, 2012

Our greatest shortcoming: obsessive desire for certainty, compulsive appetite for the sure thing. Some will panic in the search; a few get utterly lost in trying to fix the “game.” Yet life is no play-thing to manipulate. The conviction that… Continue reading

October 5, 2012

A Boon of Dandelions 1

48 Revolutions Round Sol… 4 X 12 cycles, from the Year of the Green Wood Dragon to the Year of the Black Water Dragon. Maybe this “mind,” maybe this “I” is but a phantom radical of some complicated fleshly life… Continue reading

August 26, 2012

The Gnostic Worldview

August 25, 2012

Quora answer: What is the value of accepting paradoxes in life? « thinknet

I thought I would clarify the nature of paradox in relation to superrationality. Paradox is mixture, it is where there is mixture between contradictory opposites. However, superrationality is when you have two things at the same time but they do… Continue reading

August 25, 2012

Be gentle « Joshi Daniel Photography | Images Of People

Be gentle « Joshi Daniel Photography | Images Of People. Continue reading

August 9, 2012

Ryan Lochte: So sexy, so dumb – Salon.com

This is so to the point of how “health” & “beauty” get reduced to “physique” & “prettiness.” People would do well to close their eyes and listen to what a person is saying before they look and are sidetracked by… Continue reading

August 8, 2012

Textimony 20120808

Youth-Health-Wealth-Power: Such pass through & around as we exchange glances with the ENCOMPASSING GOOD. Be not distracted from the Beloved! Continue reading

August 5, 2012

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

August 5, 2012

James Fadiman, The Heretic: Historia Psychodelia Americana

Fadiman’s influence transcends counterculture, though. It might even stretch through the very medium through which you’re reading these words. In What the Dormouse Said, John Markoff reports that Fadiman had dosed and counseled numerous “heads” as they were attempting to… Continue reading

August 3, 2012

Textifying to the Encompassing Good

Five years ago, after someone claimed that texting was a complete waste of time, I challenged myself: Would it not be a wonderful exercise in perennial philosophy to come up with aphorisms in 160 characters or less? I began to… Continue reading

August 2, 2012

Textimony 20120802

We have all heard old Yoda’s admonition about Fear. Here is my attempt at the alternative: Fortitude is the way to the Light Side. Fortitude leads to patience Patience leads to love. Love leads to letting-go… Not needing, you… Continue reading

July 14, 2012

Singing in the Dark Temple of Midnight

I am here to sing thee songs. In this hall of thine I have a corner seat. In thy world I have no work to do; my useless life can only break out in tunes without a purpose. When the… Continue reading

July 14, 2012

“The works that I have in hand I will finish afterwards…”

I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart. And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee… Continue reading

July 1, 2012

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