I am thinking of an image of Vladimir Putin, a social psychopath with an army of guns. The pathology of embracing guns of death to wipe out human life for your own benefit. Madness!! The picture is irrational in that there are primitive neural patterns of behavior and response in the human species that will … Read more
I watched an episode of “Bachelor in Paradise”; a program framed around early matured males and females looking for love. The theme is typical . . . “Boy meets Girl”. I would call it the classic framework of the first stage of “Let’s get married”. What blew me away was one of the meetings of … Read more
Looking at Sudan . . . it’s a nightmare! Where is the benefit for the people of Sudan? I wonder how the hate can stop. What will they do next? There is no functional production to provide for the community. Who is left to exploit? There may be only raw materials like gold, oil, or … Read more
I have insights, dementia, and things to do. I observe behavior—human and animal alike—as expressed in various combinations and intensities. We are each guided in concealed mental/emotional images and concepts—variations in the character of individual behavior throughout the species. The point being that the boundaries of what defines us are both extensive and chaotic. I … Read more
When going slow, one can pay more attention. To pay attention is to find different rhythms, So I love to go back to the dreaming Watching, floating. Sailing free in mind dimensions, Consciously a choice, It keeps calling In a random voice. I feel the other time’s distractions Not to be in the universe … Read more
The winds blow in emptiness Untethered in purpose. A stranger traveling over land and sea, Now-and-then touching Meaning and purpose, And yet compelling in its story, Incomplete without end. All does not have conclusion in death, In the eternal stirring of meaning We can only yield to its random breath.
It sure feels like I’m coming apart. I look at the impending crisis of ‘now’ and see that which I dare not see. It crushes my soul to witness starving children, the homeless and moneyless, those without work, a world in economic and monetary collapse, cultural malfunction, riot police, war, and political anger and greed. I … Read more
In 2022 there is nothing to celebrate about the 4th of July in America. We are not honoring our commitment towards ” . . . a more perfect union”. Rational thinking has all but disappeared. Religious fantasies have captured too many in its cloak of belief-based ignorance. At critical junctures in the history of the world, … Read more
Talk about Psychological torture! I’m becoming a scam expert. First on the telephone live, then on messages. “You Won!”, it tells me. All I have to do is pay $1 for shipping! You owe $1—put it on your credit card. So I give them my card numbers and information. The next thing I know I … Read more
I feel like the end is near, as if I’m rattling in my cage. I see myself as an antiquated machine, a creaky, old, haunted house—the grunting gets deeper. This is a summary of my present self and my relationship with humankind. “So you want me to give up on my personal illusions and trade … Read more