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Summer of 74

Saturday, November 28, 2009, 10:43 am, d 12,611, sitting in a booth at the flea market, tweeting fragments to the twitterverse from my cell... And looking at some old scribblings I see that I took a sociology class at CSN in June of 1974.  And its funny, I remember the Dead at the Bowl the next month, but not the class!  Interesting.  And I'm assuming this was Cal State Northridge, but actually... I don't recall, which is odd, when after all this time I have vivid memories of crashing a singl...

Synchronicity: What are you doing?

It's an odd thing we go through as humans. We are bombarded with more information than we could ever assimilate. For those of us who like to pay attention to such things, it can be a bit of a blur. And yet, we, all of us, cope. We maintain. We manage to somehow stay on top of this mountain of information through a complex system of mental filtering. Our consciousness somehow manages to ride shotgun over this information, steering it, throttling it, dumbing it down into some sort of manageable to...

My Indian Connection

So an Indian friend asked, "How did you even get to know about the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad... and what is your Indian connection?" There is a whole story to that answer complete with background and figures and illustrations and a full description of the cultural context explaining the why and how... but the short answer is: "The Ten Principal Upanishads: Put into English by Shree Purohit Swami and W. B. Yeats" (1937) that I purchased at the Vedanta Hindu Temple Bookstore in Montecito, CA in th...

V. S. Ramachandran

I quite by chance caught a lecture by V. S. Ramachandran on cable from the University of California, perhaps 5 or 6 years ago (maybe more) and was absolutely transfixed. The next day at work I was nearly as hard pressed to think of anything else as I was to find anyone interested in discussing it. The lecture provided one of those exceptionally rare opportunities in which you get to watch someone who can really explain with a passion the essence of their work, one of those instances where yo...

Welcome Back

Welcome back (my first entry with Quick Blogcast). One really should avoid blogging in one's sleep. The dog has long since given up on me and headed off to his bed. What can I possibly hope to accomplish pecking away at this keyboard that could possibly compare with getting under the covers and falling asleep? I'm grinning ear to ear just at the thought of it. It reminds me of that Hindu AUM symbol that represents the connection between wakefulness, dreams and sleep. Sleep, like Om Parvat...

Another Saturday

Saturday, February 28, 2009; mid-afternoon; d 12338 - It's a warm spring like day, temperatures near 80° F with traffic outside rumbling so incessantly that it has somehow ceased to even be noticed. My wife and my mother are out getting their hair done and will be picking up our granddaughter on their return so I have the place to myself. I've been listening to music I recorded off the Internet last October (10-21-08Midnight). I let one of those little lizards out. I hate to see them get t...

Thomas 6

Sunday, November 23, 2008; 12 noon; d 12241 - Another cool clear day. Up since about 9 am updating Thomas' website and doing some work for the office. Finally got Thomas' site moved over to GoDaddy Tuesday night (sitting it up temporarily on paradatx.net). That was a genuine all-nighter with me not getting under the covers until shortly after 6:30 the next morning, having started a little after dinner the night before. I really dreaded starting that one after trying and failing to do the sam...

Escape

Saturday, November 15, 2008; d 12233 - I have not posted in many months, nor have I done anything particularly constructive. This blog has been in need of some maintenance (server side) but it would be misleading to suggest that as an excuse. There seems to be some interest in this site from someone residing in the Hebei Province of China as someone from there has visited now every day since the 10th. I wonder if they speak English? I have been completely preoccupied with the political pro...

Gurus

Friday, April 11, 2008; d 12016 - Today was difficult in the sense that there were a number of things I wanted to do, but had the sensation of being blocked throughout. First there was the customer that I promised to meet at the store at 9 AM, the date and time arrived at by the customer which I agreed to it despite the fact that I've never been at the store that early before and it takes about 25 minutes to get there so I was up at 7:30 AM so as to have enough time. Of course what the custome...

Welcome

Welcome to my blog. Today (Friday, April 4, 2008) is the 12,009th day of my first learning about the Method, and this morning at 4:11 a.m. I began again in earnest to look at a number of issues that had been plaguing me for years. Now it was almost one year ago that I began, for reasons as yet unknown to me, to develop a serious problem with vertigo that was from the first morning of its outset, immediately and completely debilitating. I quickly determined that the condition was invariably ...