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Dec.10.2012 Electric Connections December 10 ELECTRIC CONNECTIONS I step into a room and take its currency. Is the flow good? Steady? The pulse even and strong? Where are the power brokers and are they sharing the time or using their magnetic personalities to draw the...	Jun.13.2012 The 3 "I-s" of the Ego-Self Ego is not an anatomical structure. It’s not something that you will see on an X-ray. Ego is an informational structure. That’s what the term ego actually means: it is a Latinized translation of “das Ich,” which is German for “the I.” “The I” is “the information” that you...
Mar.23.2012 Mine and The Artist's Silence I watched The Artist during a silent phase recently. Not that I wasn’t expressing myself or talking to people; it was just a time when tranquillity got superimposed over words. The sentences seemed to wait. If what I had to say was happy, then there would be a lingering haze of anticipation....	Mar.26.2011 She It’s that timeWhen history is written in streams In the space between breastsIn the space between thighsIn the space between eyes The ebb and tideFollow the flow In the space between grandma’s wrinklesIn the space between mother’s armsIn the space between ovariesA past makes...
Feb.09.2011 Dzogchen A slave to word, I once again sitIn front of my own cellular-cellulose self.A blank page onto its own narrative.Logos worships its own endless ineffability in vain.- What am I?A space trying to embrace itself, nothing else.Tat tvam asi.	Jul.08.2010 You Are Not Your Personality Personality is usually understood as a set of characteristics or traits that distinguishes one person from another. Personality is information about you. You are not information. You are that which this information is about. Therefore, you are not your personality. You are not your traits. You are...
Jan.23.2010 To Understand is To Forgive The future enters into us long before it happens. Rainer Maria Rilke from Compassion Series “To understand is to forgive” formula is more than just perspective-taking, more than just seeing the event from other person’s perspective. In order to forgive, you also have to understand why what...	Dec.18.2009 Avatar of Self Context:Avatar is a Hindu term that originally means an appearance, a manifestation of a deity in a visible form, an embodiment of the ideal. Philosophically, the term Avatar could be understood as synonymous with Form (form-based manifestation of Essence). Psychologically, the term Avatar, in my...
Oct.08.2009 Slashing Our Own Wrists Sometimes we go a little overboard. I know we need to be careful when it comes to homeland security. I am all too aware of the threats of terrorism, illegal immigration, blah blah blah. I'm also aware that news announcements would have people believing things are on the upswing (in...	Jan.31.2009 The value of knowledge I started a Japanese print blog last year. It had been up and running for about a week when the emails began arriving. The emails were from people who'd come across me whilst Googling for information to aid in the identification of their family heirlooms. This uncle (who'd roved around Asia before/...