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Kenneth W. Davis
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
Retired professor / Independent scholar
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To make oneself like an ownerless desert
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One of the things that drew us to New Mexico was the pervasive spirituality, of the people—Indian, Hispanic, and Anglo—and of the landscape itself. Why does the desert seem spiritual? Why was the desert the birthplace of so many faiths?... Continue reading
Posted Mar 5, 2013 at Prospero's Books
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Not too thick, not too sparse
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I've posted before on the mathematics of the arts, specifically music and literature (here, here, here, and especially here). This view of great art is that it resides in an optimum state of complexity, at the right place between perfect... Continue reading
Posted Feb 26, 2013 at Prospero's Books
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From a small distant world
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"This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live in yours. We hope... Continue reading
Posted Feb 21, 2013 at Prospero's Books
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Happy 540th, Nick
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Today Google is celebrating Copernicus's 540th birthday, with a beautifully animated version of this "doodle." Happy birthday, Nicolaus, and thanks for speaking truth to power and for teaching each one of us that the universe doesn't revolve around us. (Click... Continue reading
Posted Feb 19, 2013 at Prospero's Books
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On top of the sieve
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On Big Think, Sam McNerney writes A curse of the 21st century is the belief that the new prevails over the old and that the new is superior to the old. I’ve realized the opposite is true with respect to... Continue reading
Posted Feb 19, 2013 at Prospero's Books
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The Hebrew word for universe
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Some years ago, back in Indianapolis, I attended a couple of workshops with Lawrence Kushner, as part of IUPUI's Spirit and Place Festival. I'm finally getting around to reading one of Rabbi Kushner's books that I bought then, Honey from... Continue reading
Posted Feb 17, 2013 at Prospero's Books
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Stardust
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At an Ash Wednesday service yesterday, the priest commented on the fact that the atoms in our bodies are created within stars. "Remember that you are stardust," she said, "and to stardust you shall return." For those of you observing... Continue reading
Posted Feb 14, 2013 at Prospero's Books
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Faith, hope, charity
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From Sunday school—and from our entire culture ever since—I've learned the phrase "faith, hope, and charity" (or sometimes "love"). However, it has always remained an abstraction to me. Now, while writing a review of W. L. Wilshurst's The Meaning of... Continue reading
Posted Feb 12, 2013 at Prospero's Books
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Perhaps the essential part
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Because I've been struggling to define sacred in my work on the Sacred Feminine, I'm attracted to this passage from Baring and Cashford's Myth of the Goddess (see What I've Been Reading): We shall not try to define 'the sacred'... Continue reading
Posted Feb 7, 2013 at Prospero's Books
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Feb 6, 2013
Damn, Jay, that was quick! Thanks, and thanks for the suggestions. I've read Stevenson and learned a lot from it. I'll check into the other two.
Toggle Commented Feb 6, 2013 on Sabbatical over at Prospero's Books
The circle of those whom we do not kill
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From Chet Raymo's Science Musings blog, in an essay originally published shortly after the events of September 11, 2001: It is as Loren Eiseley wrote: "Instability lies at the heart of the world." The criminals who wreaked havoc on New... Continue reading
Posted Sep 11, 2011 at Prospero's Books
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The end that all maps must
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On the wonderful Brain Pickings blog, Kirstin Butler reviews the book Everything Sings, by Dennis Wood. The book is an atlas of maps of his North Carolina neighborhood—maps showing everything from the locations of wind chimes to the "highways" squirrels... Continue reading
Posted Sep 9, 2011 at Prospero's Books
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Turning in the widening gyre
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This computer simulation of the formation of a spiral galaxy—such as our own Milky Way—is remarkably like the radar images we've seen in the past two weeks of the growth of Atlantic hurricanes. As above, so below. (Title from "The... Continue reading
Posted Sep 8, 2011 at Prospero's Books
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The unity of time
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As I've reflected on yesterday's post, it has occurred to me that Aristotle—and the Greek playwrights whose work he discusses—would have agreed with modern physicists that "every event in the past and future is implicit in the current moment." That... Continue reading
Posted Sep 7, 2011 at Prospero's Books
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Implicit in the current moment
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"The past and future are equally real. This isn’t completely accepted, but it should be. Intuitively we think that the 'now' is real, while the past is fixed and in the books, and the future hasn’t yet occurred. But physics... Continue reading
Posted Sep 6, 2011 at Prospero's Books
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To learn about love and about the world
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One of my fellow Bloomsday tweeters (retelling Joyce's Ulysses in Twitter bursts, over a twenty-four-hour period this past June), Caetano Waldrigues Galindo, writes: For all of its importance as avant-garde, groundbreaking literature, I am sure (and the older I get,... Continue reading
Posted Sep 5, 2011 at Prospero's Books
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The road that takes him to his city
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The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts has produced a stunning video—starring MWBro. Benjamin Franklin—introducing Freemasonry. Continue reading
Posted Sep 4, 2011 at Prospero's Books
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Hermetic video
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Hermeticism is valuable today for (among other things) its "big picture" view of the cosmos its emphasis on the interconnection of everything its metaphoric descriptions of systems, large and small Two good introductory videos have been created by Christopher Warnock... Continue reading
Posted Sep 3, 2011 at Prospero's Books
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At times, a trickster
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"Cultures that tell stories of God as Mother have known reality as mother-like. Those who speak of God as Father, or as a steadfast rock, have known reality as father-like and as solid and unchanging as a boulder. And as... Continue reading
Posted Sep 2, 2011 at Prospero's Books
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A snowball's chance in hell
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"If you put God outside and set him vis-a-vis his creation, and if you have the idea that you are created in his image, you will logically and naturally see yourself as outside and against the things around you. And... Continue reading
Posted Sep 1, 2011 at Prospero's Books
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The drop and the ocean
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"All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop." —Kabir, reformer and poet (late 15th century) (Thanks to Jay at Bailey's Buddy) Continue reading
Posted Aug 31, 2011 at Prospero's Books
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The present moment is overrated
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Michael Dowd, on the Thank God for Evolution blog, has an illuminating article titled "Evolutionary Spirituality: Coming Home to Reality." It begins surprisingly: The present moment is highly overrated. From an evolutionary perspective, the past and the future are where... Continue reading
Posted Aug 29, 2011 at Prospero's Books
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The universe's still-cooking stew
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"The reason we exist—and the reason to begin any journey—is to bring out our full humanity, the unique flavour that we alone can offer to the universe’s still-cooking stew." —Neil Douglas Klotz, The Sufi Book of Life (Thanks to Joanna... Continue reading
Posted Aug 28, 2011 at Prospero's Books
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Life completely shattered and remade
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"It’s possible that our horizons have become too broad, and that real spiritual breakthroughs require a kind of narrowing — the decision to pick a path and stick with it, rather than hopscotching around in search of a synthesis that... Continue reading
Posted Aug 27, 2011 at Prospero's Books
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