Sharon Schafer

Infinite Perception in the perspective of a Finite Mind

 “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is, infinite.” William Blake... I’ve had plenty of instances in my life where I felt I was trying to look at a large landscape through a small window.    A strong feeling overcomes... Read More

Enlightened ...and Depressed?

 I’ve been down the rabbit hole.   I’ve read books, blogs, of author’s urging the reader to take their personal experiences further, detach from the previously cognized identity.   I have taken the red pill.   I have said yes to the ‘Are you... Read More

Child's Native Perspective

This is quick, for it is late, and a thought I do not want to forget to process.  ... The toddler mind seems completely to be in the Native Perspective of Inner Experience.... Does this mean that all four Native Perspectives can be fully obtained through a certain order of... Read More

HIS Native Perspective: Action

When my husband got home from work, after feeding him and allowing him to wind down, I convinced him to take the time in his exhausted mind to take the quiz.   I observed his willing relunctance, and worked with it, for it is the usual attitude I receive when we talk of such... Read More

Native Perspective : Systems

"There is a working system to everything, and I am set to figure them all out" could definately be one of my life mottos.  As a student I prefer to learn slowly, to know I am understanding everything I am taking in.    I've recently begun to find that I've lived... Read More

The Imperfect Child Born In a World of Infinite Possibility

As I watch Maya, my 19 month old try her best to drink right from a regular cup, (actually, I don't know if regular would be the word, it is a cow in the shape of a cup), it dawns on me, how 'imperfect' we are born in terms of what the world normally considers a 'civilized' human being.... Read More

Light That Spark

It has been too long a period in which I felt a bit alien in my surroundings.   I walked along with the nagging knowing that we are living fragmented lives, and desperately wanted to put my two hands in to aid in somehow integrating our current lifestyle.   It is a world that... Read More