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Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
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Astrological notation
Astrological notation, rows of numbers, and the arcane symbolism of the Tarot filled the page.
July 1974
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
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Before I went traveling I lived in a house
Before I went traveling I lived in a house where we banned the word “Enlightenment.” At the time it was the impossible, unreachable, unfathomable dream, and I suppose we couldn’t take the pressure of being held up to our Goal, being only human as we were.
July 1974Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
The Enlightenment Game
BODY enters world. Spirit enters body. Go.
July 1974
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
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Whether life or its meaning comes first becomes irrelevant
Whether life or its meaning comes first becomes irrelevant. Love is meaning. Life without love is meaningless.
July 1974Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
On Not Believing
If you look hard enough for a reason to support something you want to believe in, you’ll find it. We select a belief as we do a mate, seeking for that which best reflects ourselves and our needs. Both are fragile and tenuous affairs, but how much more fervently one will hold onto some beliefs, after many loves have come and gone.
July 1974
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
And Then, Forever
“Well, is the house still there?” she asks in the morning, rubbing sleep from her eyes. Yes, I think, it’s there: the universe holds together. This morning, as every morning: the house, the street outside, the house across the street: their lives, our lives. What more assurance, what greater truth, can we ask for?
July 1974
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Off The Road
As warm weather oozes into the psyche the deep seated urge for asceticism makes its play for the body’s lifestyle by creating a desire of which I will offer a description.
July 1974Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
God: Then And Now
Quite frankly, I never really gave a second thought to any of this “spiritual” stuff until I was studying for my writtens and read some of the philosophy of quantum physics — it was very high and caused my third eye to open up for the first time. Was science really all that different from religion?
July 1974
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