Ah yes, these superstars could only be so because of those who reflected the light back to them. Which is more important? :) Your brilliant line "listen for the whispering of the night oceans" prompted me to share one of my favorite paintings on the wall in my house: https://photos.app.goo.gl/BKnxKfYKFw7zDkz66
It was a commentary on Daoist cosmology that helped me with that, David.
Coming from my cosmological background, I wasn't getting that the '10K Things' was a-cosmological & entirely spontaneous. That they didn't have a concept of *Cosmos* with a coherent, single ordered, enclosed or defined thing. The xtianity & Sagan I was offered in youth did, lol. The Daoists I was trying to understand weren't trying to assert the existence of a 'One Behind the Many' substratum, just a largely consistent cadenced flow of Becomings.
I'm always suggesting metaphorical "guitars" to fill voids. Best of luck. <wave>
Sorry, David, but this piece is too solipsistic for this ole doc. I fly much closer to the ground and let nature and my better angels drive the two wheeled cart of my life. We are what we do. So, I'm a retired physician/psychiatrist/addictionist/cancer and stress researcher/recovered addict/alcoholic/childhood sexual-physical-mental-emotional-spiritual abuse survivor, and, lately science/psychology/environment/climate collapse author. We are what we do and have done. Best wishes and have a blessed day!
Thanks for that! My concern is with the self-absorption of the comments and replies that I see on my daily rounds on the net. My eldest son directs a computer game design shop in Brisbane and is lauded for his "Destroy All Humans" production. We are so very alienated from the natural world and its rhythms that most of us meet the criteria for psychosis and are as lost as you allude to in your essay. Nature is, afterall, the only reality and we are just one aspect, but have become 3,000 times the numbers of our Hunter-Gatherer/pastoral clan/band living ancestors. Climate collapse is in the process of driving us off of a de-evolutionary cliff, like so many lemmings. "Mind" won't matter then.
Ah yes, these superstars could only be so because of those who reflected the light back to them. Which is more important? :) Your brilliant line "listen for the whispering of the night oceans" prompted me to share one of my favorite paintings on the wall in my house: https://photos.app.goo.gl/BKnxKfYKFw7zDkz66
I love this piece, it is deeply moving for me. I love the surrender, the vulnerability, the portrayal of agony that lies beyond the accomplishment
Thank you David for sharing, again… for your being 🙏🏻
Dark night of the soul? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Night_of_the_Soul#:~:text=The%20dark%20night%20of%20the%20soul%20is%20a%20stage%20of,the%20withdrawal%20of%20God's%20presence.
It was a commentary on Daoist cosmology that helped me with that, David.
Coming from my cosmological background, I wasn't getting that the '10K Things' was a-cosmological & entirely spontaneous. That they didn't have a concept of *Cosmos* with a coherent, single ordered, enclosed or defined thing. The xtianity & Sagan I was offered in youth did, lol. The Daoists I was trying to understand weren't trying to assert the existence of a 'One Behind the Many' substratum, just a largely consistent cadenced flow of Becomings.
I'm always suggesting metaphorical "guitars" to fill voids. Best of luck. <wave>
Sorry, David, but this piece is too solipsistic for this ole doc. I fly much closer to the ground and let nature and my better angels drive the two wheeled cart of my life. We are what we do. So, I'm a retired physician/psychiatrist/addictionist/cancer and stress researcher/recovered addict/alcoholic/childhood sexual-physical-mental-emotional-spiritual abuse survivor, and, lately science/psychology/environment/climate collapse author. We are what we do and have done. Best wishes and have a blessed day!
Thanks for that! My concern is with the self-absorption of the comments and replies that I see on my daily rounds on the net. My eldest son directs a computer game design shop in Brisbane and is lauded for his "Destroy All Humans" production. We are so very alienated from the natural world and its rhythms that most of us meet the criteria for psychosis and are as lost as you allude to in your essay. Nature is, afterall, the only reality and we are just one aspect, but have become 3,000 times the numbers of our Hunter-Gatherer/pastoral clan/band living ancestors. Climate collapse is in the process of driving us off of a de-evolutionary cliff, like so many lemmings. "Mind" won't matter then.