A Collection of Blog Posts

About 6 years ago, in Austin, I ran into one of the lawyers who dealt with the case of Rubin Carter, the legal team who finally got him released. He was seeking me out because of a book I wrote (To Fathom The Gist Vol 1). He was very old but still coherent. I already knew the main details of Rubin Carter's story, but he added some depth. Rubin "Hurricane"...

This remarkable essay comes from  “The Golden Bough,” by Sir James George Frazer. The King of The Wood Who does not know Turner’s picture of the Golden Bough? The scene, suffused with the golden glow of imagination in which the divine mind of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape, is a dream-like vision of the little woodland...

Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,  Why feed’st these rebel powers that thee array? Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth,  Painting thy outward walls so costly gay? Why so large cost, having so short a lease,  Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess,  Eat up thy charge? is this thy body’s end? Then...

Including a collection of anonymous quotes, plus quotes from Confucius, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lao Tzu and Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī.If you want small changes, change your behavior. If you want big change, change your attitude. Know yourself, and your neighbor will not mistake you. Knowledge talks, wisdom listens Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf....

These sayings come from Gurdjieff's pupils, Alfred Orage, Peter Ouspensky, Maurice Nicoll, Jane Heap and Jeanne de Salzmann.Be a pianist, not a piano. Beings differ in the potentiality of their awareness. Consider the 'sly' man; he tries to be aware always. Controlled imagination becomes mental work. Every time we repress the working of a center, we become...