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Eating the Imaginary Steak of the Babylon Matrix
“I know this steak doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.” Cypher, from The Matrix Are you willing to trade the essential truths for imaginary steak? Will…
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Dealing with the Realm of Deadly Delusions
Deadly delusions are often like warm and fuzzy stuffed animals with retractable fangs. At first they seem soft, pliable, warm and fuzzy, the pleasant buzz of those first few drinks, the infatuation that begins aglow with sentimental idealization… Know what your deadly delusions are, and whether they are as yet unrealized or whether they are…
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Unusual Couplings
Strange partnerships and unusual couplings may be synergistic. Mutation and metamorphosis are ascendant evolutionary themes and these may require the unexpected intermingling of dissonant elements. The coming together of typically unrelated human types may yield interesting results, like my nephew and two nieces who are half Russian-Jewish and half Palestinian-Christian. The unusual coupling is not…
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Lights Through the Veil of Darkness
Even in the midst of veils of darkness, points of light may be seen. If you are open to them, you may notice moments of compassion amidst the noisy business of human transaction. There are moments when the world reveals its inner beauty and novelty and categories like good, bad, natural and artificial fall away…
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Lights Through the Veil of Darkness
Even in the midst of veils of darkness, points of light may be seen. If you are open to them, you may notice moments of compassion amidst the noisy business of human transaction. There are moments when the world reveals its inner beauty and novelty and categories like good, bad, natural and artificial fall away…
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Heart has its Reasons
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.” — Blaise Pascal Put aside the superficial rationality and ask your heart what it has to say.
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Fools Rush In
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Respect appropriate boundaries. There is a difference between pushing the envelope and stepping off a cliff. Boundaries are often what protect us from losing our power and life energy. Especially important are the boundaries suggested by your global intuition. As Goethe said, “A master first reveals himself…
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Storm Chasing
Sometimes it is appropriate to chase storms, to choose to enter the dangerous terrain. You may choose this path to find out what is really going on in some inner or outer turbulent zone. In some cases you may even choose to enter the zone and alter the weather there. Often just observing what is…
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Journeying
Journeying is an archetypal human experience. I often feel the call to adventure as Winter turns to Spring, the urge to get out of the house and experience home on the road. Staying in one place for too long so easily and inevitably becomes a stagnant routine. Emerson said: “The problem with traveling is you…
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Rebelling from the Phantoms of Childhood and Adolescence
“Man must make peace with his seasons or the gods will laugh at him.” — Mary Renault The adolescent social matrix is an inevitable phase of development that has its place. If it continues to dominate your life long past adolescence that may be a problem. As much as we might work on ourselves, the…