Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in … Continue reading The Best of All Possible Stories
Socrates was a swell guy. Continue reading Knowing Thyself: I Don’t Know Nuthin
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. —Robert Frost Great writers are honest and share their testimony boldly. When we stop writing to gain something, we can find real freedom. The number … Continue reading Share Your Heart, Be Brave
“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading Know Thyself: Waking Up From Materialism
Let the creeps of the world unite! Continue reading My Father, The Creep
The sleeper must awaken! Continue reading Resist Your Masters
People love to kneel To kings and queens To generals and popes To gods and idols To equations and teachers But when one sees through the world They finally kneel before themselves Then they stand and embrace all Who could be your master When you know yourself Why are most of us so quick to kneel? In a world influenced by societal norms and cultural … Continue reading Know Thyself: People Love to Kneel
Through recorded history our species has waffled between seeing our world as divinely created and inspired and the belief that we exist alone in a brutal universe and that all we have is each other, so make the best of it. The ancients moved from mythology to philosophy. Science today has moved beyond philosophy and religion to observation of matter. It seems we have always … Continue reading Know Thyself: Between Love & Strife
Readings from “The Secret Teachings of All Ages” by Manly P. Hall on Hermes Trismegistus and Poimandres. Continue reading Poimandres, The Vision of Hermes
A reading I did from Walt Whitman Speaks, one of my favorite poets. Continue reading Prophet of Love: Walt Whitman Speaks
The Tripping Fool 