metaphysics | metaphysics
Dec.22.2012
(digital art graphic courtesy of Bright Skylark Literary Productions)
In July 2006, I sat down to write a short simple thank you note to fellow poets and writers who had graciously wished me well on my birthday. To my surprise, the intended short simple note came out of my pen...
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Jun.12.2012
Absence of Mind, which originated in the Terry Lecture Series at Yale, is subtitled: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self. That subtitle ought to tell you whether you want to read this little book or not. What is “inwardness”? What is “the Modern...
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Apr.12.2012
Wow! I've been so madly busy marketing my new book that I haven't had time to blog about it until now.
It's called Searching for Sassy: An L.A. Phone Psychic's Tales of Life, Lust & Love, and tells the true story of leaving behind my job in New York publishing after a terrible breakup,...
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Apr.06.2011
Puppies are God's way of reminding you just how powerful the Law of Unintended Consequences is. My puppy, Star, is a really bright dog with a not so bright owner. As part of housebreaking her, I needed a way for Star to tell me she wanted to go out. I got a cowbell and tied it to the doorknob,...
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Jan.06.2010
Moses and the Burning Bush by A Friberg
'The day will come when after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in...
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Oct.14.2009
Let your dreams carry you into strange lands, for one never knows what treasures await.
It seems my “to do” list grows evermore, but this is the stuff of life, and I accept the good, the bad and the ugly – though forgive me for hoping to find more of the former. I say “find” because our perception...
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Sep.30.2009
Plenty of people these days think of metaphysics as one of those abstruse subjects that give otherwise unemployable academics something to do with their time. Meanwhile the industrial world hurtles toward disaster along a trajectory defined, in part, by a common metaphysical error. The latest post...
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May.27.2009
In these uncertain times, when digesting the daily serving of discouraging news, remember that there is no greater fountain of hope than that which lies in the deep waters of the human soul.
Since my prior Blog entry, my author labors have consisted of marketing Book I, working on Book II, and...
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Mar.25.2009
Visionary Vibes started out as a somewhat bold experimental column published in the Creative Loafing weekly entertainment news magazine during the mid 1990s. It has since made appearances on in a number of publications and on such web sites as AuthorsDen, Blogit, and Bright Skylark Literary...
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Dec.29.2008
When I was very young...
Before I learned to walk, I was serene, like a little Buddha. My mom used to say she could sit me in a corner, with just a couple of toys, and I would be content. I would play with shafts of sunlight, as if in meditation. Then, as you say, the passages happened...
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