After three weeks of hot, hot weather, stretching the summer deep into the fall, gloriously, rain! Here are the first drops… It’s like the moon! Why not. The moon came from here. […]
Light and Shadow in the Grass
I promised I would show you some images of a tension I’ve noticed in Western culture. It’s a living tension, that comes in variable forms. First… Shadows of Grass on Stone … and second … Lit Grass […]
The Secret of Life
Last week, I was speaking about alternative science. This week I am going to be talking about some practical applications of it. But first, one final illustration, because I find it so […]
Life (and chipmunks)
Fire comes from the centre of the solar system. Water comes from the edge of the solar system. They meet on earth. You would think they might extinguish each other, but no. […]
Don’t Think So Much. Stay Awhile Instead!
As a writer, I’m pretty used to changing points of view. For instance, we could have another look at that line by reading, “The guy with the grey hair and the green […]
Raven Talks
Here’s a raven I met on Wednesday. “It’s just a human projection, to say that ravens have intentions or speak,” someone told me on Thursday. Well, for humans who don’t live on […]
Spiritual Technology
A kind of lens. Cairn and Mount Hood from the Old Village Gardens at Horsethief Butte
The Wonder of Life & The Wonder of Death
Earth crystallizing around light, climbing a ladder to the sun. Look at it! Rhododendron Shoots, Campbell River That’s the spirit of this planet. This is not: Gopher Trap (Sprung) (Protecting a lawn from […]
Sagebrush Buttercup in Its Natural Environment
Sagebrush buttercup, the first of the grassland wildflowers is blooming in the US Okanogan, and up into Canada, on the south slopes, on sandy hills south of the big lakes. Note the […]
The Ideal University
Yesterday, I started collecting questions I would ask of an ideal group of scientists and natural philosophers at an ideal university that merged art, science, philosophy and ethics into a unified field […]
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