Editorial notes: Reflections about drug (and love) experiences, in which emotions and feelings are analysed (“Hacking”) that are intensely felt but too changing and formless (as in “chariot mysticism”) to give reliable solid information; “to be studied but not believed; or Hacking the chariot of fire.” The reflections are deeply introspective. They relate to the levels and qualities of the...
I hope that enough time has passed for me to talk about the last time I saw Hitch[I]. Fortune had blessed me with the opportunity to interview the shrunken titan, and also to test the mettle of my confidence against the confidence of his mettle. [Editor: Strike, no one cares about your B.A. – people want to know about Hitchens because he’s dead, not you] I had planned to write an article...
This is a poem about looking for purpose and direction, and how their considerations. Preface The gaze of our yearnings may differ Hence I had not tailored this message to my own.[1] Prelude In dreams born of dreams[2] All the meanings are cryptic And signify things unknowable. To rule them is to dream them, (the prophets read their own minds[3]). Method Goodness appears in the territorial...
It dawns on me – in the manner of a cloud unshrouding the sun – that the relationship and effect of H sapien parents on their young can be read through the same prism that refracts the relationship and effect of the H sapien on their equine dependents. Many times it has happened that I learned to discern the pattern of a master’s ego and will in the movement and predilections of their...
Editorial notes: The short story below was found in Shai’s Google Drive notes and is clearly incomplete. The Brain Storming section at the end of the narrative alludes to the continuation of the story An apocryphal Braisa, non-canonical and existing only in Arabic: “Rabbi Yona was lost at sea. Can a man’s name be changed in absentia to avert an ill-luck? […]” Thus I have heard, when...
This is an ode to that which it will never allude; or, A shadow of the sun.
You are not this,
Nor this.
You said “that”,
Instead of that.
That which was something,
May have been
Something
Else.
Liberating
To untie a knot
By tangling.
To be
Come
Never
Been;
Is
Always
Sometime.
The strong
Nuclear Force
Gets stronger –
Equal and
Opposite
Re:
Actions.
This stayed at
Rest.
Now so did
That.
[Editor: This is more “charity case” less “business proposal”] Begin by introducing the experiential state of sati as resulting from instructions The concept of bare attention The concept of purity of experience Pause to introduce bhakti yoga as experiential and resulting from instructions Situating bhakti by comparison within mindfulness of deportment theory Pause to introduce form vs concept...
[Editor: Poor and looks barren] This is probably antithetical to the goal Not happy with this. Plan: Opening room for hope [Optional section, dry but makes methodology justified – how to test belief systems [Optional section: cleaning the board; religion vs Judaism, and implications for approaching a test here. Marking targets for pilot investigation in principle Specific example route...
[Editor: Has potential, but lacks momentum until a vector is adumbrated for the answer] Every year Edge.org designs a question for the leading intellectuals and innovators to pit against their visions, with the hope that the rest of us may thus gain some insight into their mind and understanding[I]. After deliberate deliberation, we will be reincarnating our approach which had become stale and...
[Editor: This is shit] In our burrow, recipes are passed down from great Aunt to nieces[1]. The rules are simple and powerful, meaning that the wedding presently underway was not merely a solemn vow of love and faithfulness, but also a merger such as had never been seen since the Deepfriers and Brunches fusioned through marriage six generations past. The transport, transcription, and devolution...
