Pursuing Happiness via Meditation

Discovering David Wray and not realizing he was the conductor, and thereby seeing a window into sublime joy

The longer I listen to classical music, the deeper grows my ability to discern a depth of quality which I previously missed. I grow hungry for that depth -- or is it a height? -- of quality, and suffer through many mediocre performances in search of the gorgeous ones. And then I find one and am  […]

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A certain kind of psychological phenomenon that involves thought distortions around authority and legitimacy

I found a fascinating article on a weblog from 2016, and eventually wrote a comment on the post. However, it's been six years, and the author has moved on to other weblogs, so my comment sits in her moderation queue, where it may sit forever. So I'm posting it here. The weblog post in question is  […]

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The Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth is The Eye of Revelation

I recently stumbled on a gem of a book called The Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth. As I skimmed through it, I found it to be a rather unique book, and wanted to know more about how it came to be. Chances are you found this weblog post because you're researching it like I was. Its origins  […]

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The Ordinary Guy

I originally wrote this for a particular person to read, but in a style which looked like it was for everyone. He is from an older generation who prefers to teach rather than to listen. We have known each other for decades. I know from long experience that if I wrote to him directly, as I do in most  […]

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The Place of Humility in Science

Always nice to see someone talking about the place of humility in science, as it requires making connections which tend to deepen the general narrative. For example, the article points out where science is being abused by many of its own adherants. This is a thought-provoking perspective, and seems  […]

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A parsimonious and fairly logical contemplation on the nature of the beginning

It is utterly impossible for something to arise from true absolute nothing. This can be seen immediately by anyone imagining an infinite expanse of nothing... first comes the paradox of where this nothing exists. It has no dimension, size, shape, form, feature, nor attribute of any kind. It is pure,  […]

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On Graduating from Kabbalah

It is normal to encounter ideas which we entertain briefly and sincerely, but upon close inspection, later reject or lay aside one way or another. This happens so often that it's hardly a big deal when we reject an idea or even a constellation of ideas we once thought attractive, although it can be  […]

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King David’s radical insight

So I’m reading this book on grace, which is turning out to be one of my favorite books ever, because it so systematically details how grace operates in a way that confirms my own thoughts on the subject for so long. Yet it goes further, and provides lots of evidence to support its position. Here is  […]

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Children are not at the center of their knowledge; quite the opposite

All that you know Is hanging on a structure of you You at the center As if that were the only way Calmly, openly, as if There were no ugliness therein It was not always so; Consider for a moment And you will see clearly: When you were young All that you knew Was hanging on the structure Of someone  […]

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Before the beginning

Before the beginning, the Holy One awakened one morning as the birds began to sing their serenade to the coming sunrise. We whose love for the Father is so great we cannot bear to be separated from him, our beloved whose every breath is a great wonder for the infinite depth of meaning which  […]

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Our purpose is joy

I wrote the following in response to a friend who was saying there was no obvious purpose, and quoting Kierkegaard on how we create our own purpose until we realize it is absurd: I believe there is a purpose, and our purpose is "joy," and suggest that we are at the very initial phase in  […]

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