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Consciousness
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Sy’s New York Diary
Everyone in high, high heels, reaching for heaven, an eyebrow raised above the clouds, trying to see.
July 1974Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
An Awakening
I was sitting in a restaurant in Bombay enjoying a dosa masala for lunch when David popped in and asked if I would be interested in going to Ahmednagar with him.
July 1974Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Good Heavens
To come to an understanding of the intrinsic workings of everyday life, primitive man sought order amidst the chaos of his existence. Tides came in and washed over ground that was dry and untouchable only days before. Cold made barren the lushness of a summer forest.
July 1974
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
The Enlightenment Game
BODY enters world. Spirit enters body. Go.
July 1974
Essays, 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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