a story prompted by the T-shirt thread…

Hi All,   I am not a Christian but I do have a favorite pope. He was known as John Paul the first. If you're not familiar with this person here's a refresher; his time in office was very short only 33 days.   My sense of the man is that he was a very modest person, by evidence... Read More

On calendars and other matters

Hi All,   Layman was posting about Nietzsche, wearing a copy of his book to a frazzle, in part I trust on his way to grokking its contents and intent.   It reminded me of Confucius, who was said to have worn-out three copies of the ancient canon of changes. In our time this... Read More

Yikes! more on typing…

Hi All,   Looking At and Looking As, can be seen as yet another form of typing. The Ancient Craft, as I like to call it, has an analogous two-sided coin of perspective. It's called the rising sign or ascendant. It’s often thought of as a sort of lens through which we see the... Read More

Typing via the ‘mother’ of all cycles...

 ... Hi All,   Seeing into the relation between cyclic activity and typing begins with understanding something basic about cycles. The ‘mother’ I'm referring to here is usually called the lunation cycle. It's the result of the dance of planetary motion that goes on... Read More

some introductory remarks on typing…

Happy Friday All,   There have been some recent postings about typing, including my own that made claims about a sophisticated system that employs a variety of types and subtypes. This prompted me to give some thought to giving introductory public demonstration supportive of those... Read More

two kinds of shadow

  Hi All,   In another thread Joe, Layman, and others are engaged in an excellent conversation on shadow -among other issues. It brought to mind something from my archives, here is an abridged version of it:   It may be useful to consider that there are two basic forms of... Read More

Awakening to a cultural limitation …

 ... Hi All,   Rising above the miasma of ours or any culture is not an easy thing. Our culture treats us like fish in water, oblivious to any possibility of life in another element. All is not lost however, as amongst our fishlike counterparts there exist certain rare... Read More

from first to second…

 ... Happy Friday All,   The groove carved or laid down by human consciousness is long and deep. And if I muse about its very beginnings I'm intrigued by the notion that its earliest imprinting was in response to the alternation between day and night. Night of course was likely... Read More