David Jackson Another journey and continuing on with another journal. I suppose this journaling is all I’ve got at this point in my dying. Not that it matters to those who haven’t discovered the path, but for those of us who have these journals are a mini-record of thoughts and new images of just one individual’s journey … Read more
Add em up! Eleven. Halloween Dinner Party I must say that the “times” feel so intense. I felt validation—place and meaning all coming together in my essence. All that was real danced before the ghosts in the living side of death, on the nightmare edge knowing it is just beyond, as we poke fun at its … Read more
I don’t make the rain But I have to respond to wet Then give its powers respect There would be nothing without it Life is rain Rain is life Too much of either Can make you drown Too much life will do the same Too little will wilt the land And starve the need to … Read more
So what is normal? Perhaps an even more significant question: ”Is the current “normal” healthy?” We have to look at the current nature of ego as not healthy, not normal. As individuals, most of us are not all that aware, nor integrated, in what I would call mindfulness. By mindfullness I mean a nonjudgmental state … Read more
I watched a documentary on the current state of homelessness in San Francisco recently, and as I routinely witness it here in Eugene, I realized homelessness is out of reach of the services of social order. Is this a foundational limitation in the ability of collective life to respond to individuality separately and rationally? It … Read more
Adequacy What a mind blowing implication. She “owned” what she felt to be her inadequacy. It wasn’t that I felt for her so much as I felt something disturbing deep in myself. It touched something fundamental in the power of drowning in this word. Adequacy It goes straight to the sense of one’s standing in … Read more
I have grown quite dependent on this writing. My task is to establish myself, my own identity in my consciousness and awareness, so as not to lose the origins of myself vs the other—which is the part outside myself. This is an important distinction because it provides for my identity’s authenticity. What I perceive is … Read more
Dreaming of dreaming, watching the sense of coherence loosen as I realize the meaning of my humanness on the path of evolution in life. I think the path takes on a new meaning after seeing how evolution’s journey flows and manifests through human evolving. We know of the expanding of matter and the cycle and … Read more
In the beginning there is no eye to see. From there to now the mind awakens in order to be Able to observe and discover Cosmic meaning. And so biology Sets about trying to watch Itself To learn to look at what it is doing. Not with large eyes yet But close in vision for … Read more
The Jupiter Giant Without water or life It’s satellites orbit the violent sky Spaceman better find water If he is not to die Searching as the cosmic nomad In the great desert in the sky Another planetary giant Seeking the wet embrace of water Since boiled away and gone Or frozen in life’s past Needing … Read more