If you don't know where to begin- just begin and it will become clear where to go next.

the gossamer threads

the key to opening the way

The Opening of the Way -A Particular Experience

The material world is the solid footing under the enigmatic umbrella of reality.  The arcane world holds the locks but offers the keys to open them. 

The Opening of the Way -A Particular Experience

The material world is the solid footing under the enigmatic umbrella of reality.  The arcane world holds the locks but offers the keys to open them. 

Rilke and Anum Cara

Rilke and Anum Cara

 How patient is that sun, rising every day and asking the world the same question; Do you see now?

Rilke and Anum Cara

 How patient is that sun, rising every day and asking the world the same question; Do you see now?

The Doors Of Perception

The Doors Of Perception

Whether a mystic or a scientist how we seek answers is a reflection of how we use our own brain. The mind of William Blake was an authentic connection to...

The Doors Of Perception

Whether a mystic or a scientist how we seek answers is a reflection of how we use our own brain. The mind of William Blake was an authentic connection to...

a lacuna is a gap to mind

WORDS -Mind the Gap

The mind is a faculty of consciousness, of memory, that particular unseen force that enables each to be aware ot the world and the experiences of it. To mind something,...

WORDS -Mind the Gap

The mind is a faculty of consciousness, of memory, that particular unseen force that enables each to be aware ot the world and the experiences of it. To mind something,...

the MYSTERY OF HISTORY: Venus and Velikovosky

the MYSTERY OF HISTORY: Venus and Velikovosky

The1950's era debate between Velikovsky and more traditional scientists is not over truth.  The Mystery of this particular History is not what is true, but who is allowed to say...

the MYSTERY OF HISTORY: Venus and Velikovosky

The1950's era debate between Velikovsky and more traditional scientists is not over truth.  The Mystery of this particular History is not what is true, but who is allowed to say...

Favorite Old Book - 1896 A Natural Philosophy

Favorite Old Book - 1896 A Natural Philosophy

Old books were written to actually educate readers and students.  Somewhere overly complicated  frameworks moved in and intelligent comprehension had to move over.

Favorite Old Book - 1896 A Natural Philosophy

Old books were written to actually educate readers and students.  Somewhere overly complicated  frameworks moved in and intelligent comprehension had to move over.

The Story of Bruges

The Story of Bruges

These tribes were the last to fight of the Roman legions, but were defeated eventually, and forgotten.  But then so were the Romans, eventually.  

The Story of Bruges

These tribes were the last to fight of the Roman legions, but were defeated eventually, and forgotten.  But then so were the Romans, eventually.  

Keep The Change -but first

Keep The Change -but first

If we take on the responsibility for what is, we can be responsible for what can be.  And the next generation can then  Keep The Change.    

Keep The Change -but first

If we take on the responsibility for what is, we can be responsible for what can be.  And the next generation can then  Keep The Change.    

The Tinker's Willow

The Tinker's Willow

Just four and a half small pages in a little book, but generations of memories mingled in the cool breeze that was blowing on my face and the one in...

The Tinker's Willow

Just four and a half small pages in a little book, but generations of memories mingled in the cool breeze that was blowing on my face and the one in...

HISTORY SNAPSHOT- 1780-1861 Great Brittain

HISTORY SNAPSHOT- 1780-1861 Great Brittain

Old books tend to have better memories of what actually happened . Impromptu learning or structure a whole course- Schoolers age 12 to 120 will find something interesting.  Solve some...

HISTORY SNAPSHOT- 1780-1861 Great Brittain

Old books tend to have better memories of what actually happened . Impromptu learning or structure a whole course- Schoolers age 12 to 120 will find something interesting.  Solve some...

The People Who Understood Paracelsus

The People Who Understood Paracelsus

...she also tells of those people who understood Paracelsus, those whose ranks and company she had joined.  It is these people that are discussed in this article.

The People Who Understood Paracelsus

...she also tells of those people who understood Paracelsus, those whose ranks and company she had joined.  It is these people that are discussed in this article.

LONDON’S IMMORTAL ANIMALS

LONDON’S IMMORTAL ANIMALS

Is there more to this story?  If you like a bit of mystery while picking up on the history then reading a bit between the lines of this 1850's book...

LONDON’S IMMORTAL ANIMALS

Is there more to this story?  If you like a bit of mystery while picking up on the history then reading a bit between the lines of this 1850's book...

ANTIQUITIES- The Greeks PreSocratic 630-428 BCE

ANTIQUITIES- The Greeks PreSocratic 630-428 BCE

article for all ages of  inquiring minds...The beginning of science may have been born of the speculations of the early Greek, ...others argue that the ancient wisdom of the Egyptian...

ANTIQUITIES- The Greeks PreSocratic 630-428 BCE

article for all ages of  inquiring minds...The beginning of science may have been born of the speculations of the early Greek, ...others argue that the ancient wisdom of the Egyptian...

WORDS- Tracking the Word Organic Over A Hundred Years

WORDS- Tracking the Word Organic Over A Hundred...

track a century of change in specific realms of human culture by looking at how our word meanings change in the course of time

WORDS- Tracking the Word Organic Over A Hundred...

track a century of change in specific realms of human culture by looking at how our word meanings change in the course of time

Paracelsus -The Terms He Used In His Works

Paracelsus -The Terms He Used In His Works

And in the centuries after the middle ages even up to our modern day even more confusion is added in ....  The dark ages still throw shade.

Paracelsus -The Terms He Used In His Works

And in the centuries after the middle ages even up to our modern day even more confusion is added in ....  The dark ages still throw shade.

NUMBERS 101 -  Three Six Nine

NUMBERS 101 - Three Six Nine

Having fun playing with numbers is an excellent way to stretch our brain power in a world where technology is seen as powerful and brains too often are not.

NUMBERS 101 - Three Six Nine

Having fun playing with numbers is an excellent way to stretch our brain power in a world where technology is seen as powerful and brains too often are not.

Hartmann and Paracelsus

Hartmann and Paracelsus

 Leading the blind through thorny patches requires a walking pace, not a race.  His work, knowledge, and gifts were true and thorough, but the overly quick push for change pushed...

Hartmann and Paracelsus

 Leading the blind through thorny patches requires a walking pace, not a race.  His work, knowledge, and gifts were true and thorough, but the overly quick push for change pushed...

VELLEIUS PATERCULUS  -The Court Historian of Tiberius

VELLEIUS PATERCULUS -The Court Historian of Ti...

generation that became products of the dread  ‘period of marked decline’. we don't have a name for this unfortunate ancient generation, such as 'boomers'  but time does chastise their period...

VELLEIUS PATERCULUS -The Court Historian of Ti...

generation that became products of the dread  ‘period of marked decline’. we don't have a name for this unfortunate ancient generation, such as 'boomers'  but time does chastise their period...

HOMERUS aka Homer of Antiquity

HOMERUS aka Homer of Antiquity

opinion does seem to prove the antiquity of Homer and the long standing  uncertainty surrounding the place and era of his birth.  

HOMERUS aka Homer of Antiquity

opinion does seem to prove the antiquity of Homer and the long standing  uncertainty surrounding the place and era of his birth.  

In the beginning were the sun and the moon

ANTIQUITIES- In The Beginning

there is a Cosmic Breath that can not be polluted even if the stories become so.  The Ancients breathed life into myths, and canons, and stories to maintain our connection...

ANTIQUITIES- In The Beginning

there is a Cosmic Breath that can not be polluted even if the stories become so.  The Ancients breathed life into myths, and canons, and stories to maintain our connection...