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Jan

2021

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Meditating One-Year In: Five Reflections

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Joshua Tree National Park, CaliforniaTuesday, January 5, 2021 Meditating One-Year In: Five Reflections Without conscious plan or intent, I began meditating, on...

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2020

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Perversely Avoiding The Present

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Buddhism, fantasy, imagination, infants, Living-In-The-Present, meditation, Now, Taoism, the future, The no-self experience, the past, toddlers, Zen

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books, education, experts, freedom, General Disscusion, healthcare, medicine, mental health, mindfulness, philosophy, psychoanalysis, spirituality, truth

Sunday, August 9, 2020 Glendale, California Perversely Avoiding The Present Two recent experiences bring the absolutely unequivocal ways in which we perversely...

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Apr

2020

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Melting Materialism

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anima, animus, briefcases, facades, fiction, interests, Karl Jung, meditation, occupations, personality, professions, social construct, the shadow, Vegan

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Tuesday, April 28, 2020Pasadena, California Melting Materialism In one of his more brilliant ideas, Swiss psychoanalyst Karl Jung thought that interests find...

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Mar

2020

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Watching the Ego Flicker

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concentration, Darling Davids, Ego, flickering of the ego, focus, liberation, meditation, nirvana, plant-based diet, social roles, social rules, the Big Other, Vegan

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education, experts, freedom, Life Style, manipulation of the american public, mindfulness, philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis, spirituality, truth

Tuesday, March 10, 2020 Chiang Rei, Thailand Watching the Ego Flicker Validating either the mystical, the unconscious, or both, I began engaging...

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Jan

2020

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Life in 2020: A Few John Updike Phrases to Wake You Up!

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2020, cynicism, empathy, enlightenment, existentialism, family dysfunction, freedom, Happy New Year, John Updike, Meaning, meditation, middle-class life, Rabbit Is Rich, realization, upper-class life, wisdom

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Wednesday, January 1, 2020 Glendale, California Life in 2020: A Few John Updike Phrases to Wake You Up! Fending off powerful superego...

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Dec

2019

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Why Take A Magical, Mystery Tour?

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Baba Ram Dass, capitalism, consumer, Ego, Hallucinogens, LSD, Meaning, meditation, producer, Richard Alpert, spiritual materialism, STP

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books, education, freedom, General Disscusion, generations, government, history, interpersonal relationships, manipulation of the american public, mental health, mindfulness, philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis, spirituality, truth

Friday, December 6, 2019 Cayucos, California Why Take A Magical, Mystery Tour? Many reasons exist, but listening to old Baba Ram Dass...

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Jan

2019

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How To Stop Being A Fake

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art, authenticity, bad faith, copies, education, experts, fakery, faux, government, individuality, Jean Baudrillad, meditation, mindfulness, personality, psychology, simulation, thoughts, uniqueness

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Thursday, January 10, 2019 Glendale, California How To Stop Being A Fake The first step, naturally, is surrender to the simulation,...

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2018

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Finding Eternity In The Moment

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Einstein, eternity, general relativity, Lao Tzu, living in the moment, meditation, planets, special relativity, Stephen Mitchell, Tao Te Ching

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books, freedom, interpersonal relationships, philosophy, psychoanalysis, truth

Glendale, California Sunday, June 3, 2018 Finding Eternity In The Moment After Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in 1905, humans...

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2017

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Time Psychosis, Omnipotence, and the Buddha’s Second Noble Truth

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Buddha, Buddhism, depth psychotherapy, letting go, meditation, presence, second noble truth, suffering

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Pasadena, California April 14, 2017 Dear Readers, A habit I label time psychosis causes me to often run late. It results from omnipotence,...

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