Booma Dollies and Onions

Prime time TV spots have nothing on the mind when it comes to variety and action. So let’s take a look.

 

The setting:  Harry is redecorating his office and so brings home a gift he once received from a Russian visitor - Baboushka dolls.

 

The mind: ......... Oh yes, so many years have passed since we first saw dolls like these. We were together in Berlin just after the wall came down. The girls were still little and for some reason I can’t remember called them “Booma dollies”. Should remember to ask them why we called them that. Look at them. They’re an example of a nested hierarchy. Now that’s what I should do. Write a piece about Booma dollies! Once saw an article on Thomas Merton based on this concept. Must remember to look it up. Could apply the same to Wilber. Both bald! Where’s Wilber at? Maybe if I was to teach the concept of growth one day, I could have the dolls painted to depict the various levels of development. I’m certainly not who I was 10 years ago! What did I read about how often even the cells in our bodies replace themselves. Atoms to molecules to cells. Hierarchies. Healthy and unhealthy.......... Booma dollies. Now that’s cool. Could write about “Booma dollies” versus “Boomer Dollies” and could then include a whole bit about boomeritis. Pluralism and narcissism. The problem of the ego. Mmmmmm, there’s that piece about the onion – “I” in the middle of “on” and “on”. I get in the way. I just go on and on............. The need to shed the ego. The need for shadow work. The need to peel off all the layers of the onion till only the true “I” is left................... Jon Kabat-Zinn talking about his Korean teacher, who would always follow the question “Who am I?” with “Dunno!”. That’s it! Who am I? Who is watching this mind?????????..................................................................... ..................................................................................................................................................................Oh well. Time to get up........................................................................................................................... or should I say WAKE UP!