tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64697563862879389072024-03-05T23:45:58.862-07:00Shoreline DriftwoodShoreline Driftwood shares with its readers the unconventional insights of its author, Don Coorough, into current events, economics, politics, social activism, philosophy, mythology, psychology, neuroscience, the arts and culture, in addition to his poetry.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.comBlogger230125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-8574212692789218132013-11-12T19:38:00.000-07:002013-11-12T19:39:18.634-07:00Tripping the Light Fantastic - a screenplay<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Tripping
the Light Fantastic,” is a screenplay for a full-length, feature film of
entertaining fiction in the fantasy/romance genre which tells the story of Seek,
who suffers severe head injuries while rescuing Maryanne from some toughs
accosting her on a tube late one night. While in the hospital, Seek undergoes a
Near-Death Experience from which astral travels ensue: taking him to Los
Angeles in May of 1972 – where he relives some events from his wild hippie past
and a failed love affair – to an English garden outside of time and space – where
he pursues enlightenment as he meets two whimsically humorous and scathingly
insightful spirit guides – and to London three days in the future – where he pursues
new love with Maryanne.</span></span><br />
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Moon” </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">is edgy, entertaining fiction in the action/thriller genre which </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">tells a story set in 2057 of a mother (Silk), her two teenage children (Fair and
Raven) and a pelt trapper (Dusty) traveling in search of better lives. All four
are taken hostage, abused, terrorized and enslaved by a frightening group of
territorial predators. After the captives engineer their escape, the victims
fight for their lives against incredible odds and their sick, vile captors. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-85353006665558575842013-09-17T16:15:00.000-07:002013-09-17T16:15:39.959-07:00"Love-ism" books available through Amazon (US and UK) and Barnes and Noble<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi friends, I wanted to let everyone know that all four books (of all three volumes) of my "Love-ism" series are now available on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and through the Barnes and Noble online store. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Love-ism Volume I: A Critical Mass and Other Poems" can be purchased as a quality paperback at $26.96 and as a Kindle eBook for $9.95 through Amazon at the following url - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-ism-Critical-Mass-Other-Poems/dp/1630005274/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379457375&sr=1-7&keywords=love-ism">http://www.amazon.com/Love-ism-Critical-Mass-Other-Poems/dp/1630005274/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379457375&sr=1-7&keywords=love-ism</a> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or in the UK for 25.38 pounds </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(or for 6.78 pounds </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as a Kindle eBook) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at the following url - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-ism-Volume-Critical-Other-Poems/dp/1630005274/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1379458275&sr=8-14&keywords=love-ism">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-ism-Volume-Critical-Other-Poems/dp/1630005274/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1379458275&sr=8-14&keywords=love-ism</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Love-ism Volume II, Book 1: Essays on a Philosophy of Compassionate, Common-Sensed Evolution" can be purchased as a quality paperback at $26.96 through Amazon at the following url - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Ism-Book-Compassionate-Common-Sensed-Environmentalism/dp/163000524X/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379457375&sr=1-11&keywords=love-ism">http://www.amazon.com/Love-Ism-Book-Compassionate-Common-Sensed-Environmentalism/dp/163000524X/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379457375&sr=1-11&keywords=love-ism</a> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or in the UK for 25.34 pounds </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at the following url - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-ism-Volume-Book-Compassionate-Environmentalism/dp/163000524X/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1379458275&sr=8-9&keywords=love-ism">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-ism-Volume-Book-Compassionate-Environmentalism/dp/163000524X/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1379458275&sr=8-9&keywords=love-ism</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Love-ism Volume II, Book 2: Essays on a Philosophy of Compassionate, Common-Sensed Evolution" can be purchased as a quality paperback at $26.96 through Amazon at the following url - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Ism-Book-Compassionate-Common-Sensed-Consciousness/dp/1630005290/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379457375&sr=1-9&keywords=love-ism">http://www.amazon.com/Love-Ism-Book-Compassionate-Common-Sensed-Consciousness/dp/1630005290/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379457375&sr=1-9&keywords=love-ism</a> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or in the UK for 25.63 pounds </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at the following url - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-ism-Volume-Book-Compassionate-Common-Sensed/dp/1630005290/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1379458275&sr=8-7&keywords=love-ism">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-ism-Volume-Book-Compassionate-Common-Sensed/dp/1630005290/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1379458275&sr=8-7&keywords=love-ism</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Love-ism Volume III: Sitting in an English Garden - a novel" can be purchased as a quality paperback at $17.96 through Amazon at the following url - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Ism-III-Sitting-English-Garden-/dp/1630005282/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379457375&sr=1-8&keywords=love-ism">http://www.amazon.com/Love-Ism-III-Sitting-English-Garden-/dp/1630005282/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379457375&sr=1-8&keywords=love-ism</a> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or in the UK for 12.43 pounds </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at the following url - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Ism-Volume-III-Sitting-Garden-A/dp/1630005282/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1379458275&sr=8-5&keywords=love-ism">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Ism-Volume-III-Sitting-Garden-A/dp/1630005282/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1379458275&sr=8-5&keywords=love-ism</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All four titles can also be purchased through Barnes and Noble online ( Volume III for $18.19 and the other three books at $29.95) at the following url - </span><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/don-coorough?store=allproducts&keyword=don+coorough">http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/don-coorough?store=allproducts&keyword=don+coorough</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am excited about the availability of my books from these retailers. I hope you will make your purchase today!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-60005088465806077442013-08-08T18:25:00.000-07:002013-08-10T16:54:27.194-07:00Shoreline Driftwood – The Five-Year Anniversary <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On September 21, 2008, I
typed in my first post for my blog, Shoreline Driftwood. So, I am approaching the
fifth anniversary for this blog, though I know I am about 6 weeks early in
putting this up. I felt this would be a good time. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In its first 49 months,
Shoreline Driftwood received 18,856 page views on its 221 posts. Since then,
the total number of page views has climbed to 28,108 viewings on 226 blog posts
(including this one). Visits to my blog come from readers all over the world. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am extremely grateful
to all the readers who have stopped by my blog, either to give it an occasional
read or to become regular readers. I wanted to take this anniversary and use it
as an opportunity to share with readers not only my gratitude (which is deeper
and more heartfelt than I can state), but also some of the highlights as culled
from the stats on page viewings which reflect your interests in my writing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Readers of my blog
emanate from nations all over the world. As of October 15, 2012, the top 10
nations in terms of numbers of page views was as follows: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1) United States –
8839 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2) Germany – 1206 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3) </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Russia –1156 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">4) United Kingdom – 781 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">5) Slovenia
– 592 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">6) Netherlands – 348 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">7) France – 308 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">8) South Korea – 265 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">9) Canada –
244</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">10) Ukraine – 198 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In addition to these nations, I know the blog had
readers from Indonesia, Philippines, Lebanon, Iraq, and India, in addition to
many other nations. As I write this today, the current top ten of nations is as
follows: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1) United States – 12,930 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2) Russia – 1856 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">3) Germany 1653 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">4) United
Kingdom – 1191 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">5) France – 709 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">6) Slovenia – 592 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">7) Canada – 428 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">8) Latvia –
407 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">9) Netherlands – 360 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">10) Poland – 274 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As you can see, recent
interest from Latvia and Poland has moved them ahead of South Korea and
Ukraine. The blog has also gained interest in China, Taiwan, Sweden and Australia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For my writing to reach
such a broad and diverse readership is very humbling at the same time as it is
extremely gratifying. I am amazed and surprised by the reach of the blog given
it was such a small venture 5 years ago. I had no idea I could, or even any ambition
to, generate the large and diverse readership which I have garnered over the
past 5 years. As I say, I feel humbled by the response.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Indeed, at some point
in 2010, I realized my readership had grown to a point that I could reach more
people per month from my blog than I could from many, if not most, of the
online literary journals in operation. Consequently at that time, I ceased
submitting my writing to other sources for possible publication. For the entire
5 year period, I have averaged 469 viewings per month. However, over the past
16 to 18 months, I have been averaging more than 1000 viewings per month. Since
I liked how I was able to garner so many viewings without contributing to
advertising or feeling constrained by publishers and editors, I focused on
publishing my writing here, solely since the time in 2010 when I ceased
submitting my writing to publishers. I have experienced a great deal of freedom
by not being limited by subject matter, style, voice, or genre (poetry,
non-fiction, or fiction). As a consequence, I have grown as a writer, as a
thinker, and as a person. I have to thank all of you as readers of Shoreline
Driftwood for making this possible. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next, I’d like to share
with you a list of my top most viewed blog posts with a minimum of at least 50
viewings. I’ll provide the title, a brief description of the blog entry, the
date it was posted (month/day/year), and the number of viewings. If readers
find they missed something and want to go back to view it, you can find the
link clicking on the title below which will take you to the post. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Kandinsky, one by Picasso, and two by Chagall), 2/7/10, 2012 viewings <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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analysis of the poem, 1/21/10, 1823 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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critical commentary, 5/26/10, 660 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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overview with commentary, 12/10/08, 638 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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4/1/09, 517 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the poetry of Jim Morrison, 5/13/10, 500 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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commentary, 5/24/10, 436 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and analysis with commentary, 11/12/09, 231 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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look at two possible futures depending on humanity’s approach to Climate Change
which includes detailed scientific factual findings, 2/14/09, 193 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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research and findings and a philosophical interpretation of the information,
12/6/08, 193 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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overview with interpretive analysis and commentary, 11/10/09, 192 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and story synopsis for a Beatle movie which could be made and if one had been
made in the mid-70s, it’s a farcical romp in the style of “<i>Help!</i>”, 10/13/12, 175 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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analysis, 3/23/09, 171 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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after-death experience, 7/28/12, 153 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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critical analysis and author commentary on each of the topics, 12/9/08, 151
viewings</span></div>
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viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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critical analysis, 12/12/08, 140 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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with critical analysis of Bush’s leadership and neocon’s ineffective strategies
with regard to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, 12/7/08, 125 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and urging for a 5<sup>th</sup> revolution, 3/23/10, 124 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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107 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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poetry exercise which reveals the writing of my poem “Amniotic Steps” (a short
poem), 9/7/10, 103 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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spiritual study of the road to experiencing greater happiness more often, using
the principles of Transactional Analysis, 4/8/13, 103 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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investigation into rejecting notions of a thinking creator who created with a
plan, 12/20/08, 78 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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commentary, 7/10/12, 67 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the Constitution’s Framer’s intentions have been subverted with suggestions for
repair utilizing historical references from various past Presidents including
Jefferson, Lincoln, Wilson, and many more, 12/12/08, 64 viewings <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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leading to an innovative view of our place in the universe and a spiritual
value as beings, 12/24/08, 62 viewings<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and commentary, 11/3/11, 50 viewings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"> In addition to these
blog posts, my advertisements/synopses for my recent book releases have
garnered a number of viewings as well: 1) the post (4/18/2013) for <a href="http://shorelinedriftwood.blogspot.com/2013/04/don-cooroughs-first-book-of-essays-has_18.html">the link to purchase my first book of essays</a> has received 504 viewings, 2) the post
(1/12/2013) for <a href="http://shorelinedriftwood.blogspot.com/2013/01/dear-friends-and-readers-my-book-of.html">the link to purchase my collected poetry</a> has received 264
viewings, 3) the post (6/6/2013) for <a href="http://shorelinedriftwood.blogspot.com/2013/06/book-2-of-don-cooroughs-essays-has-been.html">the link to purchase my second book of essays</a> has received 82 viewings, and 4) the post (8/5/2013) for <a href="http://shorelinedriftwood.blogspot.com/2013/08/love-ism-volume-iii-sitting-in-english.html">the link to purchase my novel</a>, “Sitting in an English Garden,” has received 12 viewings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you to everyone
who has stopped by for a visit and to all of you who will do the same in the
future. I am grateful for all of you. The purpose of my writing is to share my
deepest thoughts, my most urgent feelings, my hopes and fears, and my unique
perspective on our world. That sharing and communication has been accomplished
is reflected by the viewing numbers I have posted. You give my life meaning and
value by reading what I have written. I can never overstate how much that means
to me. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally, if any of my readers enjoy reading books through Goodreads, you can find my first three books all available there at the following link - </span></span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6909913.Don_Coorough">http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6909913.Don_Coorough</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My wish for all of you
is for peace, happiness, good health, warm relationships, and a fulfilling life
for all my readers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Warmly, Don</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-39296800078374206862013-08-08T16:08:00.002-07:002013-11-12T16:42:07.534-07:00"The Unraveling" - an outline for a screenplay<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The Unraveling,” </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">is an outline for a proposed full-length feature film of entertaining fiction in the drama genre which </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">tells the story of Jerry Farnsworth, husband to Marie and father of teenage son, Bobby, and Sally Evans, an exchange
student from England. Set between September of 2008 and April of 2009 against the
backdrop of the subprime mortgage crisis and several mass murders which actually occurred in the USA and which
resulted from gun violence, the story tells how Jerry’s life and psyche unravel as he loses his job,
takes a new position, and suffers excessive stress due to
sexual dysfunction and mounting financial pressures. </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;">Love-ism Volume III: Sitting in an English Garden—a novel</b><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"> takes you to multiple worlds during multiple time periods. In this story, we encounter a man’s experiences in Southern California during May of 1972, in Amsterdam, Netherlands during a day in 2005, and in a place outside of time and space in a fictitious English garden. The book’s world combines hippies, anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, out-of-body experiences, dream sequences, psychedelic trips on LSD, a visit to an Amsterdam koffieshop, a budding romance between an expatriated American and a native Dutch woman, and timeless encounters with John Lennon and George Harrison. This book will take you on a ride wilder than Billy Pilgrim’s in </span><b style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;">Slaughterhouse Five</b><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"> and more surreal than </span><b style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;">Alice in Wonderland</b><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"> or </span><b style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;">Through the Looking Glass</b><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;">. Destined to be a timeless classic, this book is a highly experimental example of storytelling which expands previous notions of the novel.</span><br />
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Don CooroughAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-54627373271908103262013-07-15T11:10:00.000-07:002013-07-15T11:10:01.690-07:00Under the Flowering Jacaranda<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fragrant,
lilac colored flowers cluster<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Together,
like hands from a multitude, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stretching
out five-fingered petals, pinching<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At
the air, reaching out in a last gasp, to grasp <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
idyllic serenity their aura emanates. Worries<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And
judgments fail to cloud their perceptions – <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Blossoms
signal a momentarily eternal spring.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Purple
carpets the ground, providing a regal<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Setting
for a picnic tryst. A lingering <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scent
of harmony drifts on the laconic <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Breeze,
calmed by the jacaranda present. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
nearby brook enunciates the whispered<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Secrets
which the gentle wind whistles <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Through
the tree’s branches. Along the Paraná<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">River
valley, just like a mother’s love, its <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Music
never ceases, singing through Brazilian <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guitars
made from its wood in the way<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A baby
coos its contentment after suckling. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
jacaranda nurtures without words,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Caresses
without touching, and spreads influence<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Throughout
its sphere without arguing, teaching,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scolding
or demanding. It simply loves for the<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sake
of loving because all-which-is deserves<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every
ounce of love it can well up and offer,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And
nothing is ever lost when love is shared. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-64441383786269934562013-06-17T08:22:00.000-07:002013-07-15T10:05:17.685-07:00Somnolent Caterwauling<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
dark, summer night melts the icy moon</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
undying, undiscovered memories <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From
within the heart’s furnace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tomorrow’s
eternal wick <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Glows,
golden, beyond reach:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pinching
fingers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Try
their hand at cheating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Phantasmal
fantasy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Flicks
dandruff shrugs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Off
stooped shoulders - <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Another
galaxy rejoices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
unbinding grasp <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Releases
somnolent caterwauling <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From
the screeching scratch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of
a desolate desert. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;">“Love-ism Volume II, Book 2: Essays on a Philosophy of Compassionate, Common-Sensed Evolution—Reality, Psychology, Consciousness, Mythology, Spirituality and Notions of God”</b><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; text-align: justify;">contains essays written by Don Coorough which reflect his desire to deepen people’s understanding of the way the mind works, offer commentary of the common misconceptions in current psychiatric methods, provide a clearer way of looking at reality, open up a larger discussion of how humans are spiritual beings and present a revolutionary view as to what constitutes human spirituality. Some of the essay topics in the book include developing an understanding of the process approach to life as opposed to a view which evaluates according to ends, a detailed analysis of perception, awareness, language, knowledge and time, the nature of consciousness, a look at how the mythology of the ancient Greeks offers a transcendental path to enlightenment, and the development of a relationship with one’s Higher Self.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><br />
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Don CooroughAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-40140867311107963292013-05-25T10:09:00.000-07:002013-05-25T10:09:11.559-07:00Destiny's HighwaysBirds glide<br />
through calm breezes<br />
and knife<br />
through turbulent winds.<br />
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Sages trudge<br />
over rough roads<br />
and stroll<br />
on smooth byways.<br />
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Birds and sages know<br />
all influences -<br />
strife and suffering,<br />
joy and serenity -<br />
as equal partners<br />
on destiny's highways.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-4515391712766853292013-04-18T19:39:00.001-07:002013-08-10T16:36:18.433-07:00Don Coorough's First Book of Essays Has Been Published<br />
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<b style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i>Love-ism Volume II, Book 1: Essays on a Philosophy of Compassionate, Common-Sensed Evolution—Politics, Economics, Environmentalism and Ethics Studied from Historical, Contemporary, and Future Points of View </i></b><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">contains essays written by Don Coorough which reflect his desire to promote a better world; a world based on love, peace, liberty, mutual respect, understanding and cooperation. This revolutionary book of essays is steeped in a profoundly historical perspective, each essay building on the ones which come before it, and promotes a united world which would reflect the wishes of people everywhere. The book urges a mass, people-power movement to create this new world. Some of the essay topics in the book include a look back at the decade of the 1960s, the development of the thesis which reveals how war and occupations of other nations cannot and do not work, an in-depth analysis of Capitalism, Communism and Fascist-Socialism, and a look ahead at how to organize societies through wise economic practices and a sound ecology. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don Coorough</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-16507427875308855432013-04-08T15:57:00.000-07:002013-06-17T08:35:36.093-07:00On Taking Personal Responsibility for One’s Emotional States<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Life is a pastiche, a process, a melting pot. Life is love and
anger, hope and despair, understanding and intolerance, charity and greed, joy
and pain, peace and suffering. Still, it remains always dominated by a
suffocating atmospheric mixture of fear and desire which play together in a
swirling vortex, each constantly influencing and reinforcing the other in the
unconscious' mental realms.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">We are taught to want from an early age in our infancy as needs
are not immediately met. We are not taught to examine the reasons for our
unrelenting wanting. Instead we merely accept it as the natural state of the
human psyche. We want because we are afraid of not having, of lacking, of
feeling the pit of emptiness within and the scrutiny of others who possess that
which we seek. We fear these conditions because the ego demands to reign
supreme, not just over the self, but over everyone. We seek supremacy because
we fear that autonomy will be encroached by others. In the ego's wish for a
place in eternity, it seeks to fill up the empty spaces where inadequacy finds
footholds with the acquisition and attainment of personal desires.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It is this manifestation of personal desire, setting personal
motivations and accomplishments ahead of everything else in the one's world (or
cultural motivations and accomplishments when cultures express desire - whether
militarily, economically, or religiously) which the Buddha warned as being the
root of all suffering. The Buddha taught a lesson which is hard-learned - when
our actions, thoughts, feelings, and/or intentions come from personal motives -
we are in a place of greed, desire, and selfishness. Personally motivated
desire will always lead to suffering.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">However, to act altruistically, without considering what personal
benefits or harms may arise due to a course of action, is the highest
expression of love. This is everyone's highest calling in life, the lesson each
of us is here to learn, and the underlying struggle in all our interpersonal
relationships and life choices. Giving in to altruism negates personal desire,
liberates one from the domination of the ego, and opens one up to a much larger
world with the potential to engage in and with universal principles and
universal purpose. To the degree one integrates ones personality in greater
degrees with altruism in every moment and every individual choice, one negates
desire, increases peace and harmony in life and eases the causes for suffering
(not only in one's own life, but in the lives of others, too). Stress (which is
a symptom of the ego when dominated by fear and desire) does not arise from
living out the highest expression of love since stress is only a personal
reaction to one's focus on one's own desires. Stress never attaches to
altruistic actions or motivations.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It is often true that individuals delude themselves regarding
their motives. We all create useful excuses in certain circumstances to allow
us to remain in denial as we pursue individually motivated agendas: "I
know best," "I only want what is best for (fill in the blank),"
"It's God's will (or any other term which denotes some individual's term
for 'higher power')," "I want to save you, or protect you, from
making the same mistakes I've made." This list can go on and on, but you
can see the manifestation of the personally motivated rationale by now. The
real question one can ask oneself in any and every instance remains, "Am I
doing this on even the remotest possibility that I will gain something I desire
as a result (or avoid something I wish to avoid)?" If the honest answer is
yes, then the contemplated course of action is personally motivated, and the
result can only bring personal suffering along with it.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Life cannot exist without some degree of suffering. Life is a
process of becoming. As one engages in the process of becoming, one will, being
human, make mistakes in life. The quality of human frailty and tendency for
individuals to err underlies the process of learning and growth. These mistakes
will, naturally, lead to suffering. What do I mean by mistakes? I am alluding
to actions based on and colored by personal desires.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Another facet of personal desire is that it rarely stops to consider
the free expression of the personal will and choice which divests itself in
others just as surely as it invests in oneself. The interplay between exalting
one's own ego driven needs while also negating the free will of others is the
ethical principle, and fundamental esoteric basis, underlying the interrelationship
of personal desires with suffering. Actions based on personal desire will cause
someone to suffer: either the person undertaking the action if/when their
expectations for the outcome are not met, or the person being manipulated or
affected by the action which negates their free opportunity to choose the
events and circumstances affecting them from and in their environment. In
either case, it is also part of the nature of suffering that it festers,
causing enmity between both parties, leading to suffering in both, as well.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Life, as a process, flows through a constant series of yin/yang
experiences - experiences that reveal the effects and influences of both
extremes of the polar opposites in every duality - whether that yin/yang might
be expressed and experienced through emotions, careers, beliefs, relationships,
economic/political systems, cultural ethos/pathos, or sociologically influenced
dreams for the future. One cannot know happiness without also knowing sadness.
If only one of the states existed, that state would not be distinguishable, and
hence would only be experienced as part of a bland, unperceived ennui.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">However, the law of existence which demands that the poles of
opposites must be intertwined and present as the duality of reality
(whether in individuals or cultures and nations) should not denote that it is
not possible to improve the conditions of existence for the better. We can do a
lot to ease suffering by reducing our individual, natural, and cultural
orientations to desire. Humanity will never fully eliminate suffering, but the
degree and suffering felt as well as its pervasiveness throughout the world can
always be alleviated by varying amounts. The only path to reducing suffering
arises by commensurately reducing individual, national, and cultural desire.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The contemporary world is rooted in stress. Those most successful
in accumulating wealth, position, and power require a willing workforce to
perpetuate the division into classes and widen the gaps between classes. So,
the worker is placed under the constant stress if not only having to produce on
the job, but having to protect and maintain their income in order to continue
paying for: rent, house payments, car payments, insurance payments, repair
bills, food, clothing, and, of course, the purchase of all those objects which
are accumulated out of desire - for status, for the acceptance of others, to
create envy in others, to make one feel good, and to create a sense of personal
self-worth. Stress keeps people "in their place," sociologically, as
it also reveals the people who cannot cope - those who societies ultimately
cast aside.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Humanity has re-created (or perhaps redesigned is a better word)
the planet. Humanity has done this out of the personal and collective desires
for an unending and unfathomable "more." Yet, while the quest for all
this "more" makes the already wealthy exponentially wealthier, and
the affluent more comfortable and more estimable in others' eyes but generally
lazier to a commensurate degree, this "more" also leads to greater
doses of suffering on a planetary scale as the divide between affluence and
poverty widens, as extreme poverty spreads, as famine becomes endemic, as
species are rendered extinct, as the quality of the environment deteriorates,
and as we use up the planet's natural resources at an alarming rate without
ever stopping to consider the needs of future
generations who are, after all, our children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren. </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This culture will, ultimately, consume itself
into oblivion. People will survive, no doubt. But the structure of the culture,
the economic, political and sociological models upon which the contemporary
social order are based will all perish as the culture consumes itself into
oblivion. The people of the future will have to develop a more sustainable
mindset and more sustainable method of integrating humanity with the natural
world as they seek to integrate necessary comfort while maintaining a viable and
naturally abundant ecosystem (which the planets is capable of providing for us
if we allow it to) while overcoming the desire for luxury and
predominance. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Humanity will have to reduce its numbers
dramatically. Human sprawl must cease to usurp nearly all the habitable land
and wisely understand that if we so reduce the planet's diversity, we
ultimately doom it to evolve into a lifeless waste heap incapable of
functioning as an living, interconnected, and vital ecosystem. Thus, humanity
must find a way to teach, individually and collectively, the personal
responsibility that accrues with existence and the need for balance between ego
driven personal and collective expressions of desire with the moral and ethical
imperative of honoring and respecting all other lifeforms. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In the process if dying, one discovers that the
implications and influences of duality are slowly stripped away. The ego (and
nearly always the body, too) is immersed in pain and suffering. The process of
dying may seem instantaneous or drawn out over a long period. However, in both
cases, the process of dying demands the ego focus on the pain and suffering
which is insuperably connected with the encroachment of necrosis (mentally,
emotionally, and physically). This dynamic is another law of existence because
the process is meant to purge the individual of personal desire before they
enter the light, feel the sensation of perfect love awaiting at the end, and
reunite with the "All." </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">What comes after death?</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">No one who has not been there can answer that
with any degree of certainty. Those who have encountered Near Death or
Out-of-Body states are also incapable of answer with any degree of objective
certainty that question, too, because they did not cross the threshold, and
therefore, have not actually experienced the afterlife (if one exists). No,
those folks have gone up to the door, but they have not walked through it.
Thus, no living being can offer anything objectively or definitively true about
the post-death experience. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">All living things possess consciousness. Even
coral reefs know the exact right time of the full moon, and the one full moon
of the year, during which to coordinate their reproductive discharges to
effectively propagate new life. The timing of coral reproduction, the hive
mentalities of ants and bees, the way packs, herds, pods, coveys, schools, and
all other collectives of species of life on this planet (including colonies of
single celled organisms) work together to enhance their chances of survival,
all prove to me that there are hierarchies of collective consciousness.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The Earth, our planet, is also an ecosystem,
utterly interconnected and interdependent. This planet has created, nurtured,
and propagated unfathomably countless variations of lifeforms over the eons of
the planet's presence in the cosmos. Until redesigned by human inventions'
intervention, the bounty the planet offered seemed limitless. Consequently, it
seems obvious to me that there has to exist a planetary consciousness which
exists in conjunction with the ecosystem. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It is my contention and belief that when
individual lifeforms die, each individual consciousness reunites with the
planetary consciousness, and that is what I call, "Reuniting with the
'All.'"</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I can only suggest that, from any logical
perspective, the "self," or individual consciousness, would be a puny
thing compared with the "All." The only way the "All" can
be enriched is by and through the love we bring with ourselves into it at the
moment we "step into the light" and reunite with our source, the
fountain of life. As the individual consciousness joins with the planetary
consciousness, there is no more need for the individual self-awareness to
persist. However, all of that-which-was-the-self integrates into the
"All," and so it (and each of us with it) lives on in the planetary
consciousness. This is why all aspects of personal desire and ego must be
purged through the stripping away process contained in pain and suffering as
expressed through the process of dying. What is left is the pure love
accumulated and expressed in one's lifetime, which then joins with the
planetary consciousness, the expression of altruism and love which nurtures
physical reality. In this process, the planetary consciousness can be understood
as the ever-increasing, ever-intensifying, ever-expanding, ever-diversifying,
and infinite expression of the planet's accumulation and apprehension of
love. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In the same way, our solar system is also an
ecosystem, as is the galaxy, the local cluster of galaxies in which our galaxy
drifts through space, and on to our universe, indeed, leading all the way to
the Multiverse. So, our consciousnesses never die, even though they cease being
self-aware. As part of the planetary consciousness, they merge with the solar
consciousness when the Sun goes supernova. This accumulation of pure love and
eons of nearly infinite expressions of diverse experience will seed the new
solar system that arises out of the (quite literal) ashes of the supernova of
the previous one. Eventually, when all the available energy in this area has
been used, the collective consciousnesses of the many solar systems will join
with the galactic consciousness, which will join with the collective
consciousness of local cluster of galactic consciousness when our galaxy burns
all its energy, and so on, through the merger with the Universal Consciousness,
and ultimately, the Multiversal Consciousness. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Rather than mourn the passing of those who die in
our lives, we should rejoice. Our mourning is an expression of our own losses.
But in reality, death purges and perfects the soul, making it ready to reunite
with the "All." The soul becomes an instrument of pure and perfect
love which then enriches the planetary consciousness, and through it, all of
humanity, as well. Suffering ends. The ego is overcome, and the individual
expands into the "All" in the merger of reuniting. This is an event
to rejoice because love is served. This is the esoteric meaning of
"Love-ism." </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-64127973305614012992013-01-12T13:57:00.003-07:002013-08-10T16:29:59.918-07:00The Poetry of Don Coorough Is Finally Published<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dear friends and readers,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My book of poetry, "Love-ism Volume I: A Critical Mass and Other Poems" is now available for purchase. It is a 442-page quality paperback. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"<i>Love-ism Volume I: A Critical Mass and Other Poems</i> contains the complete poetry of Don Coorough. The title poem is a contemporary, epic creation tale which incorporates material from wide ranging sources, including: cosmology, physics, neuroscience, biology, politics, economics, sociology and mythology. Destined to be a classic, this experimental poem was written utilizing techniques like: formal structure and rhyme, free verse, projective verse and organic composition. Also included in the collection are poems from the following categories and genres: love poetry, nature poetry, impressionism, surrealism, psychedelic poetry, dream vision poetry, transcendentalism and poetry of political, religious and social commentary. The material will inspire its readers with its breadth of styles, its foundation in a vast array of topics, and its highly emotional content. It's influences are readily apparent, including: John Donne, Alexander Pope, John Milton, William Wordsworth, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Allan Ginsberg, Charles Olson, and Denise Levertov."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope my friends and readers will consider ordering a copy. Please also feel free to share the link with your friends. Please click on the link to get your copy today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Warm regards in peace and with love,</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-56949316920827272682012-10-15T15:12:00.001-07:002013-05-03T23:41:49.690-07:00Shoreline Driftwood – A Four-Year Anniversary and Thank You to Readers <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On September 21, 2008, I typed in my first post for
my blog, Shoreline Driftwood. Today, I am 6 days away from celebrating the 49
month anniversary for this blog, and just a little past its 4 year anniversary.
In those 49 months, Shoreline Driftwood has received 18,856 page views on its
221 posts from readers all over the world. I know the counter on the blog does not
read as having recorded that high of traffic to my blog. Unfortunately, the counter had to be restarted on multiple occasions
because it failed to keep working from time to time. This explains why the counter only indicates 9716 visitors to my blog as of today's date. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am extremely grateful to all the readers who have
stopped by my blog, either to give it an occasional read or to become regular
readers. I wanted to take this anniversary and use it as an opportunity to share
with readers not only my gratitude (which is deeper and more heartfelt than I
can state) but also to include some of the highlights as culled from the stats on page
viewings which reflect your interests in my writing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Readers of my blog emanate from nations all over the
world. The top 10 nations in terms of numbers of page views is as follows: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1)
United States – 8839, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3) Russia –1156, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4) United Kingdom –
781, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">5) Slovenia – 592, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">6) Netherlands – 348, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">7) France – 308, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">8) South Korea –
265, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">9) Canada – 244, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">10) Ukraine – 198. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In addition to these nations, I know
the blog has had readers from Indonesia, Philippines, Lebanon, Iraq, and India,
in addition to many other nations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For my writing to reach such a broad and diverse
readership is very humbling at the same time as it is extremely gratifying. I
am amazed and surprised by the reach of the blog given it was such a small
venture 4 years ago. I had no idea I could, or even any ambition to, generate
the large and diverse readership which I have garnered over the past 4 years.
As I say, I feel humbled by the response.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Indeed, at some point in 2010, I realized my
readership had grown to a point that I could reach more people per month from
my blog than I could from many, if not most, of the online literary journals in
operation. Consequently at that time, I ceased submitting my writing to other
sources for possible publication. For the entire 4 year period, I have averaged
385 viewings per month and I found I was getting as many as 1100 to 1200
viewings in some months. I liked how I was able to garner so many viewings
without contributing to advertising or feeling constrained by publishers and
editors. I experienced a great deal of freedom in this way, not being limited
by subject matter, style, voice, or genre (poetry, non-fiction, or fiction). As
a consequence, I have grown as a writer, as a thinker, and as a person. I have
to thank all of you as readers of Shoreline Driftwood for making this possible.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Next, I’d like to share with you a list of my top 25
most viewed blog posts. I’ll provide the title, a brief description of the blog
entry, the date it was posted (month/day/year), and the number of viewings. If
readers find they missed something and want to go back to view it, you can click on the link below or by going to the blog archive and looking in the month and year
indicated for the title, and then merely clicking on the title will take you to
the post. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> As you can see, only
four of my poems are present on this list. By far, most of the posts on
Shoreline Driftwood are original poems and most of them have received viewings
in the 20s or 30s, though some of my earliest postings of poetry show only a
handful of viewings. I assume most people don’t go back through the blog
archive to look for older nuggets and because I had a small readership in the
early days I have fewer viewings of those items.</span></div>
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of my essays have been rewritten and updated with the revised versions incorporated
into my two books of essays. Likewise, all of my poems have been revised and those
revisions have been included in the book of my complete poetry (with two exceptions,
Unrestrained Perfect Love was written after the book was compiled and By a
Stream was omitted from inclusion because of an oversight). My two books, "Love-ism Volume I" (poetry) and "Love-ism Volume II book I" (first book of essays), are available to be purchased online. You can find the links in 2 of the next 3 newer blog posts. </span></div>
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who has stopped by for a visit and to all of you who will do the same in the
future. I am grateful for all of you. The purpose of my writing is to share my
deepest thoughts, my most urgent feelings, my hopes and fears, and my unique
perspective on our world. That sharing and communication has been accomplished
is reflected by the viewing numbers I’ve posted. You give my life meaning and
value by reading what I have written. I can never overstate how much that means
to me.</span></div>
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is for peace, happiness, good health, warm relationships, and a fulfilling
life. May we continue to grow together in the future. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-90770023194227074832012-10-13T16:14:00.001-07:002013-11-12T16:03:32.009-07:00The Next Beatles' Movie - A Band on the Run<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-9343163112364279382012-07-28T15:23:00.000-07:002012-10-15T12:15:43.755-07:00On Death, Dying and Reintegration – The Transition from Life through Death into Reintegration with the All<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While
duality is a property of life and being alive, and while duality persists
through stages of the dying process, duality does not exist once the dying
process reaches the stage where consciousness realizes the body is
relinquishing its hold on the mind, or electromagnetic force which controls all
human thought processes. When consciousness acknowledges the end is near, the
mind undergoes a transformative process in preparation for reintegration with
Unity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During
the first stage of the purification process as the mind succumbs to the
transition to death, duality is thwarted. Consciousness must be purified of all
attachments to life, material objects, and corporeal relationships. In order to
detach from the material realm, and as part of the purification process,
consciousness must be purged of all personal desires. The manner in which consciousness
separates from desire and material attachments arises from an initial period of
complete immersion into suffering. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As
the Buddha explained, suffering is the result of desire. During one’s lifetime,
the symbiotic relationship between suffering and desire renders itself as most
obvious occurs through one of two phenomena: either the individual’s expectations
regarding their desire is unmet which results in suffering by the desirer
through feelings of loss and disappointment, or the free will of some other
individual is thwarted when the desirer’s wish is fulfilled which leads to
suffering felt by the one whose will is thwarted, causing disharmony between
the two individuals, ultimately yielding a commensurate level or degree of
disharmony in the relationship between the two individuals. In the latter
instance, the desirer will end up feeling some degree of suffering because of
the disturbance in the relationship, a lack of trust will arise, enmity could
intercede, a potential loss of opportunities in the future is likely to evolve,
and the result still reveals itself as disappointment, loss, and consequent
suffering, now by both people involved in the situation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The
dynamic just described constitutes the essence of how karma accumulates from
our actions, deeds and desires, and affects our world through future
situations, circumstances, and forces which take place as a result of our
earlier actions. Karma is a natural process constantly at play in our lives because
we are constantly acting and desiring in life. N science, we learn that every
action causes an opposite and equal reaction. The same principle comes to play
in the accumulation and working out of karma. The laws of cause and effect
create a symbiotic relationship which must always be equilibrated. Karma need
not always be balanced immediately. Indeed, it may take years or decades. In
some instances, karma does not even become equilibrated during one’s lifetime. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When
accumulated karma has not been equilibrated during one’s lifetime, it must be purified
during the transition through death to reintegration. The purification of un-equilibrated
karma is one of the forces coming into play causing the intercession of
suffering during the process of transition through death to reintegration.
Another factor leading to the mediation of suffering during the transition
results from an individual’s remaining attachment to personal desire. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In
both of the circumstances presented above, suffering reveals itself as being an
efficacious cure for an individual’s persisting desires. Suffering leads the
consciousness to dwell on its cause. During the transition from life through
death to reintegration, the mind loses its connection to the body. When the
mind-body connection is lost, a consequent disconnection with other individuals
from one’s life occurs. When the individual consciousness is left as the sole being
to whom one must justify one’s actions, the need to create excuses, blame
others, or otherwise create rationalizations no longer exists. Hence, the individual
is finally capable of acknowledging faults, mistakes, and undesirable qualities.
In such a psychological environment, the ego recedes as a motivator and
controller of the mind, an honest assessment of the self can occur, and attachments
to desires reveal themselves to the consciousness readily. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When
the ego recedes into the background of the personality during the transition,
the super-conscious assumes the dominant role in the mind. The super-conscious
lacks any attachment to fear as well as the need to overcompensate or create
false self-images, an overblown sense of self-importance, or deny personal
responsibility for one’s life conditions as a result of actions and desires.
Consequently, the super-conscious is capable of arriving at fair and unbiased
judgments. The super-conscious also has no attachments to anything, so it can
shed all of the individual’s previous desires and left over karma. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The
physical process of dying can be instantaneous or drawn out. In either event,
the physical process has pain and suffering attached to it. However, the
physical process is only a detachment of consciousness from the body. Once consciousness
separates from the body, there is a period of time while the electromagnetic
field which comprises individual consciousness persists. Eventually that field
will dissipate and join with the Earth’s electromagnetic field. During the slow
period of dissipation, consciousness undergoes the purification process. As
elements of the mind become purified of desire and karma is release, those
portions of the electromagnetic field dissipate and become integrated into the
Earth’s electromagnetic field – what scientists call the magnetosphere. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The
planet is a living ecosystem and, consequently, has a consciousness which is
the source of our awareness, the mother of our minds. The magnetosphere is the
Earth’s consciousness. Ultimately, when the purification process has been
completed, the rest of the individual’s consciousness reintegrates with the
planetary consciousness, its source, and the entirety of the purified
individual is subsumed by the planetary consciousness. But we are getting ahead
of ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As
I explained earlier, the process of purification is the first stage in the
transition from life through death into reintegration with the All. The second
stage in this process is the conversion of the individual’s purified
consciousness into a state of pure love. It is during this conversion when the
individual gains an apprehension of meaning. An intense white light looms in
front of the imagination – the mind’s eye which continues to populate thoughts
with imagery, allowing the mind to continue to root transcendental experience in
familiar forms, thus facilitating comprehension by the consciousness. The light
radiates with the energy of pure love. This light washes over and through the
consciousness of the individual infusing its essence back into the mind. An
energy exchange takes place which the individual consciousness accept pure love
into its while the totality of the individual’s purified life experiences are
reintegrated with the planetary consciousness, enriching it with the totality
of the super-conscious’ self. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As
the individual’s mind becomes infused with the energy of pure love from the
planetary consciousness, the mind sees the self walking into the light. The
further into the light the mind walks, the more of this pure love energy bathes
the “soul,” or super-conscious. Simultaneously, the further one walks into the
light, the more of one’s totality of experience reunites with the planetary
consciousness, reintegrating, becoming one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Let
me explain why I call this process “reintegration.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Initially,
when we are born, a small piece of the planetary consciousness attaches itself
to the body of a fetus. This occurs at the moment the fetus gains
self-awareness which is the moment individual consciousness and the ego are
born. As an ego with an individual consciousness is born, a separation occurs
from the planetary consciousness. This process occurs as the electromagnetic
field of the fetus separates from the mother’s in the womb and a new identity
comes to life. At the same moment, this new electromagnetic field acquires it’s
uniqueness by chipping off a bit of the planetary electromagnetic field.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There
is significance to the separation of the individual from the All. Prior to separation,
the embryonic new consciousness lives in oneness with pure love and the
planetary consciousness and does not self-identify. However, in the split, dissociation
occurs. The ego comes into being with unique qualities. These unique qualities
are the bits and pieces of the planetary consciousness which the newly forming
individual consciousness brings with it. The bits are influences bequeathed to
the new consciousness from the planetary consciousness’ storehouse of memory,
experience, and essence from what it has gained when pervious individuals died
and reintegrated. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Out
of the stuff which consciousness brought with it as the new consciousness comes
into being is what one might call, soul memories. Within these soul memories are
contained apprehensions of what many people interpret as being memories from previous
incarnations. It is out of this disintegration from the All which provides for
the newly emerging consciousness the basic framework for the personality it
will develop during the lifetime. This basic framework and its attendant soul
memories are often accessible by individual’s whose consciousnesses are less
dissociated than those who cannot access those memories. However, because of
the dissociation which occurs in the process of being born, most people who can
access these soul memories misinterpret them as being memories of actual previous
lifetimes or incarnations they lived. This misinterpretation gave rise to the
theory of reincarnation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Really,
what we are can be summed up as pieces of the all. In that sense, we are not
really separate from each other. Rather, we are all made up of different pieces
of the same single Earth consciousness in the same way that the different
personalities within a person who suffers from multiple personality disorder
are all really the same person. If I harm you or your harm me, we are actually
harming ourselves at the same time. Because we are really all one, or perhaps
more accurately, different pieces of the same One, and because we emanate from
a source which is comprised of pure love, it is utterly contrary to our purpose
for existence as well as contrary to our essential nature to be anything other
than love or to express anything other than love in our lives. By understanding
this concept, one can clearly see why wars, bigotry, hate, violence, anger, and
anything else which causes separation and division among us is also contrary to
our purpose for being alive as well as the meaning of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We
are here to accumulate experience and bring experience back with us to enrich
the planetary consciousness. We are here to experience love and spread love to
bring the love back with us to enhance the One consciousness. We are here to
share, grow, learn, understand, and ultimately, through our love heighten and
raise our consciousness to bring ourselves back to the All on a higher arc and
life it to a higher vibratory level as a consequence. If we lived according to
those principles, we’d find meaning, fulfillment, and purpose without
diminishing anyone or anything else. We will, as a species, have to learn and
accept these principles if we are ever to create a more utopian culture on the
planet, reach our highest potential, live in peace, and accomplish our greatest
achievements. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-81362906568793800262012-07-12T15:46:00.000-07:002013-05-03T23:44:46.005-07:00By a Stream<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As water undulates and flows</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">over and between rocks and pebbles,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">winds breeze and billow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">their frolicking oscillations,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and soil nurtures life, providing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the stage's platform, and moments</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">inscribe hallucinations upon mirage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A bird flutters from a tree limb</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and delicately perches upon a rock</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to sip cool refreshment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trout linger in eddies,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">their watchful eyes scanning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for unsuspecting insects</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to buzz within leaping range.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I sit in an inarticulate hush,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shaded by the broad-leafed arms</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of a walnut tree, thawing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in the summer morning,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">reverie soaring among the clouds,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">polished by simplicity.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-25502646575652179242012-07-10T16:25:00.000-07:002013-08-08T17:59:07.627-07:00On Seeking Balance in the Contemporary World<div style="text-align: justify;">
The world in which we find ourselves during this period of history presents great challenges for anyone and everyone who seeks to tread the path of the middle way, avoid extremes, cultivate a balanced psyche, and pursue a life in harmony with the environment, with all life on the planet, with other people (both politically and economically), between and among cultures and nations, and within ourselves on a spiritual level. </div>
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In the contemporary climate, people have been pushed into polarized political camps by politicians, commentators, pundits, and demogogues. Polarized opinions have widened the gap of disagreement and wrought vitriol in the public discourse. Pursuit of compromises which would reflect the best interests of the broadest segments of the population is no longer esteemed as worthwhile. Indeed, both sides exhibit such an unwillingness to bend that they prefer to block legislation which is drafted to promote the greatest common good. Polarized points of view, which are so common in the contemporary world, actually oppose the ideals expressed in the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, which was created to, "provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure domestic tranquility." </div>
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As wide as the political gulf has become, the disparities between the wealthy and the middle class and between the middle class and the poor have never been greater. The intensity and pervasiveness of individuals' focus on personal interests, accumulation of material objects, amassing of capital, and quest for social status has never been more pronounced and pervasive. This perverse fascination with personal gain to the detriment of the greatest common good inveigles contemporary culture with the notion that a competitive edge is the most valuable and desirable personal trait an individual can cultivate. Now, certainly, the individual nature can express itself in a very positive way when it's influence manifests itself as an individual's drive for personal excellence. However, when the sole motivation for competition reveals itself to be for personal gain at the expense of another (or others), then it's value diminishes commensurately with the reduction of others' opportunities and degradation of others' lifestyles. </div>
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Humanity possesses a natural inclination for pursuing comfort, convenience, recreation, expression, and enjoyment. However, when those proclivities rise to the level of a desire for ostentation, an appetite for wealth, a devotion to notions of individual (as well as national and/or cultural) superiority, a hunger to accumulate possessions, an infatuation with status, and a yearning for power, then individuals debase themselves morally, ethically, and spiritually at the same time as they wreck havoc on the environment and consume the planet's resources without consideration for future generations' needs. </div>
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As a consequence of the psychological and sociological divergences from a middle path of inclusiveness, cooperation, community, compromise, and the greatest common good, extremism dominates all aspects and all expressions in the contemporary world. We can no longer agree to be generous to the needy, merciful to the infirm, benevolent to our youth (who, as students, must receive adequate and affordable educations if they are to offer wise and sound leadership in the future), prudent in our stewardship of the environment, understanding toward one another, accepting of divergent viewpoints as being critical to cultural growth and making wise decisions after informed debate, and magnanimous to our spiritual natures by reducing our stress and increasing our dedication to humanity's highest ideals and the notion of the greatest common good.
Instead, our vitriolic extremism advances enmity, undermines our climate, increases the likelihood for conflict, escalates war across the globe, engenders the continuing and increasing spread of extinction of planetary life, and devalues all notions of gratitude and respect commensurately with the exaltation of the cults of greed, wealth, power, entitlement, and superiority. </div>
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In such a world, humanity, both collectively and as individuals, finds itself so attached to the illusion of material value, phenomenal accomplishment, and corporeal eminence that the balance required by any truly spiritual foundation has been forsaken. If humanity is ever to even aspire to, let alone actually achieve, universal peace, an all-inclusive affluence that honors the environment, value for the need for diversity of all life forms, and respect the rights of future generations to an equally harmonious and bountiful existence, then our individual, national, and cultural values must change: compassion must replace victory, altruism must supercede personal desire, cooperation must redeem competition, understanding must supplant antagonism, acceptance must displace intolerance, equality must overcome notions of superiority, and moderation must reconstitute entitlement. </div>
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There is only one path to such a world. That path incorporates spiritual balance and a ubiquitous education concerning humanity's highest values. Such a redirection of human focus will take time, certainly multiple generations, but it is both a worthwhile and possible endeavor to pursue. </div>
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Between the paths of extremes lies a middle way, the way of balance, harmony, and wisdom. Too great of a devotion to self will deny humanity the fulfillment of its greatest collective potential. Too small of a consideration for individual needs and opportunities will rob us of our liberties and all sense of meaning in life and personal value to the community and the world. Only by seeking a balance between the two can we eradicate the destructive forces inherent in either extreme. Only by understanding the true spiritual value that resides in balance and moderation will humanity begin to aspire to a more perfect, more harmonious, more bountiful, and more meaningful world. </div>
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This balance is the expression of universal, altruistic love. By keeping the notion of love in mind as we pursue all our endeavors, we redeem ourselves moment to moment, fulfill our true destinies, and realize the value and meaning of life. It we operate out of love, we cannot inculcate divisiveness or engage ourselves in the destructive forces of extremism. </div>
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We are born out of love to discover each of our own balanced pathways of love and, ultimately, to live our lives predicated on spreading as much love as possible during our lifetimes. In so doing, we fulfill and redeem ourselves with and through love's moral imperative.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-88284870878751533592012-07-08T15:59:00.000-07:002013-05-03T23:45:40.241-07:00Abandon to the Mission<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
clarion call rang out through the still ocean;</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Octaves
resonated harmonically in waves,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rippling
out in every direction, singing a melody<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Whose
harmonies stretched beyond the audible,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ringing
tones through light, calming the constant,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Frenetic
action, condensing dew drops of form <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Out
of pure potential’s cosmic continuum. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
taut fabric which stretched throughout the whereless<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gave
way to indentations and the sudden weight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Manifested
by illusion snared companions in attraction’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Web;
together, they danced across the eternal sea. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wings
of doves whistled as they fluttered,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
they whipped up motion out of contentment;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Great
orbs sang their harmonies to the celestial<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Melody
weaving colorful thread trails, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Implying
order in the splendor of illusion’s fabric. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
melody of the primal song urged the inert<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Into
spontaneous activity, and illusion came<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
life, electric magnetism generated awareness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Within
every thread of color, and the rainbow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wrote
upon the face of the waters with infinite<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Voices,
each singing a harmonic counterpoint <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
the ageless yet haunting melody: an unending <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Choral
mass fizzed through the cosmos effervescently. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
sacred rite of universal love uttered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Its
call into every corner of illusion:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
mission of every consciousness;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
undeniable motif sprang forth – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Forsake
personal entitlements,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yield
to cooperative inclusion;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Fulfillment requires we abandon to the mission. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-82033431342918449162012-07-08T15:57:00.000-07:002013-05-03T23:46:34.959-07:00The Existential Moment<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Streaks
bend perspective</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">into
spiraled staircase clusters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">of
stagnant, static, stiletto- <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">bladed
magnets that revolve<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">in
undetermined orbits,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">while
gravity improvises <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">unceasingly
with matter <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">to
a variable time signature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
effort to endure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">strings
together <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">happenstance
beyond<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">probability’s
grave and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">out
of limitation’s reach,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">while
infinite possibility<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">plays
jacks with <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">the
existential moment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
rungless ladder slips<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">on
horizon’s shoreline<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">beneath
a B-flat chart bearing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Miles
Davis’ signature, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">while
Dizzy cheeks balloon <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">to
breathless intervals,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">re-imprinting
jazz’s jagged<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">edges
upon a smooth delusion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
master sculptor’s <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">marbled
impressions incubate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">upon
a Kaifeng Jew’s silent stele’s <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">hieroglyphic
history, while a frozen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">instant’s
cubed, crystalline equations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">compensated
for incapacity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">with
certain death, awaiting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">the existential moment.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-64824177450682227512012-07-03T16:07:00.000-07:002013-05-03T23:35:39.881-07:00On SufferingLife is a pastiche, a process, a melting pot. Life is love and anger, hope and despair, understanding and intolerance, charity and greed, joy and pain, peace and suffering. Still, it remains always dominated by a suffocating atmospheric mixture of fear and desire which play together in a swirling vortex, each constantly influencing and reinforcing the other in the unconscious' mental realms.<br /><br />We are taught to want from an early age in our infancy as needs are not immediately met. We are not taught to examine the reasons for our unrelenting wanting. Instead we merely accept it as the natural state of the human psyche. We want because we are afraid of not having, of lacking, of feeling the pit of emptiness within and the scrutiny of others who possess that which we seek. We fear these conditions because the ego demands to reign supreme, not just over the self, but over everyone. We seek supremacy because we fear that autonomy will be encroached by others. In the ego's wish for a place in eternity, it seeks to fill up the empty spaces where inadequacy finds footholds with the acquisition and attainment of personal desires. <br /><br />It is this manifestation of personal desire, setting personal motivations and accomplishments ahead of everything else in the one's world (or cultural motivations and accomplishments when cultures express desire - whether militarily, economically, or religiously) which the Buddha warned as being the root of all suffering. The Buddha taught a lesson which is hard-learned - when our actions, thoughts, feelings, and/or intentions come from personal motives - we are in a place of greed, desire, and selfishness. Personally motivated desire will always lead to suffering. <br /><br />However, to act altruistically, without considering what personal benefits or harms may arise due to a course of action, is the highest expression of love. This is everyone's highest calling in life, the lesson each of us is here to learn, and the underlying struggle in all our interpersonal relationships and life choices. Giving in to altruism negates personal desire, liberates one from the domination of the ego, and opens one up to a much larger world with the potential to engage in and with universal principles and universal purpose. To the degree one integrates ones personality in greater degrees with altruism in every moment and every individual choice, one negates desire, increases peace and harmony in life and eases the causes for suffering (not only in one's own life, but in the lives of others, too). Stress (which is a symptom of the ego when dominated by fear and desire) does not arise from living out the highest expression of love since stress is only a personal reaction to one's focus on one's own desires. Stress never attaches to altruistic actions or motivations. <br /><br />It is often true that individuals delude themselves regarding their motives. We all create useful excuses in certain circumstances to allow us to remain in denial as we pursue individually motivated agendas: "I know best," "I only want what is best for (fill in the blank)," "It's God's will (or any other term which denotes some individual's term for 'higher power')," "I want to save you, or protect you, from making the same mistakes I've made." This list can go on and on, but you can see the manifestation of the personally motivated rationale by now. The real question one can ask oneself in any and every instance remains, "Am I doing this on even the remotest possibility that I will gain something I desire as a result (or avoid something I wish to avoid)?" If the honest answer is yes, then the contemplated course of action is personally motivated, and the result can only bring personal suffering along with it. <br /><br />Life cannot exist without some degree of suffering. Life is a process of becoming. As one engages in the process of becoming, one will, being human, make mistakes in life. The quality of human frailty and tendency for individuals to err underlies the process of learning and growth. These mistakes will, naturally, lead to suffering. What do I mean by mistakes? I am alluding to actions based on and colored by personal desires. <br /><br />Another facet of personal desire is that it rarely stops to consider the free expression of the personal will and choice which divests itself in others just as surely as it invests in oneself. The interplay between exalting one's own ego driven needs while also negating the free will of others is the ethical principle, and fundamental esoteric basis, underlying the interrelationship of personal desires with suffering. Actions based on personal desire will cause someone to suffer: either the person undertaking the action if/when their expectations for the outcome are not met, or the person being manipulated or affected by the action which negates their free opportunity to choose the events and circumstances affecting them from and in their environment. In either case, it is also part of the nature of suffering that it festers, causing enmity between both parties, leading to suffering in both, as well. <br /><br />Life, as a process, flows through a constant series of yin/yang experiences - experiences that reveal the effects and influences of both extremes of the polar opposites in every duality - whether that yin/yang might be expressed and experienced through emotions, careers, beliefs, relationships, economic/political systems, cultural ethos/pathos, or sociologically influenced dreams for the future. One cannot know happiness without also knowing sadness. If only one of the states existed, that state would not be distinguishable, and hence would only be experienced as part of a bland, unperceived ennui. <br /><br />However, the law of existence which demands that the poles of opposites must be intertwined and present as the duality of reality (whether in individuals or cultures and nations) should not denote that it is not possible to improve the conditions of existence for the better. We can do a lot to ease suffering by reducing our individual, natural, and cultural orientations to desire. Humanity will never fully eliminate suffering, but the degree and suffering felt as well as its pervasiveness throughout the world can always be alleviated by varying amounts. The only path to reducing suffering arises by commensurately reducing individual, national, and cultural desire. <br /><br />The contemporary world is rooted in stress. Those most successful in accumulating wealth, position, and power require a willing workforce to perpetuate the division into classes and widen the gaps between classes. So, the worker is placed under the constant stress if not only having to produce on the job, but having to protect and maintain their income in order to continue paying for: rent, house payments, car payments, insurance payments, repair bills, food, clothing, and, of course, the purchase of all those objects which are accumulated out of desire - for status, for the acceptance of others, to create envy in others, to make one feel good, and to create a sense of personal self-worth. Stress keeps people "in their place," sociologically, as it also reveals the people who cannot cope - those who societies ultimately cast aside. <br /><br />Humanity has re-created (or perhaps redesigned is a better word) the planet. Humanity has done this out of the personal and collective desires for an unending and unfathomable "more." Yet, while the quest for all this "more" makes the already wealthy exponentially wealthier, and the affluent more comfortable and more estimable in others' eyes but generally lazier to a commensurate degree, this "more" also leads to greater doses of suffering on a planetary scale as the divide between affluence and poverty widens, as extreme poverty spreads, as famine becomes endemic, as species are rendered extinct, as the quality of the environment deteriorates, and as we use up the planet's natural resources at an alarming rate without ever stopping to consider the needs of future generations who are, after all, our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. <br /><br />This culture will, ultimately, consume itself into oblivion. People will survive, no doubt. But the structure of the culture, the economic, political and sociological models upon which the contemporary social order are based will all perish as the culture consumes itself into oblivion. The people of the future will have to develop a more sustainable mindset and more sustainable method of integrating humanity with the natural world as they seek to integrate necessary comfort while maintaining a viable and naturally abundant ecosystem (which the planets is capable of providing for us if we allow it to) while overcoming the desire for luxury and predominance. <br /><br />Humanity will have to reduce its numbers dramatically. Human sprawl must cease to usurp nearly all the habitable land and wisely understand that if we so reduce the planet's diversity, we ultimately doom it to evolve into a lifeless waste heap incapable of functioning as an living, interconnected, and vital ecosystem. Thus, humanity must find a way to teach, individually and collectively, the personal responsibility that accrues with existence and the need for balance between ego driven personal and collective expressions of desire with the moral and ethical imperative of honoring and respecting all other lifeforms. <br /><br />In the process if dying, one discovers that the implications and influences of duality are slowly stripped away. The ego (and nearly always the body, too) is immersed in pain and suffering. The process of dying may seem instantaneous or drawn out over a long period. However, in both cases, the process of dying demands the ego focus on the pain and suffering which is insuperably connected with the encroachment of necrosis (mentally, emotionally, and physically). This dynamic is another law of existence because the process is meant to purge the individual of personal desire before they enter the light, feel the sensation of perfect love awaiting at the end, and reunite with the "All." <br /><br />What comes after death? <br /><br />No one who has not been there can answer that with any degree of certainty. Those who have encountered Near Death or Out-of-Body states are also incapable of answer with any degree of objective certainty that question, too, because they did not cross the threshold, and therefore, have not actually experienced the afterlife (if one exists). No, those folks have gone up to the door, but they have not walked through it. Thus, no living being can offer anything objectively or definitively true about the post-death experience. <br /><br />All living things possess consciousness. Even coral reefs know the exact right time of the full moon, and the one full moon of the year, during which to coordinate their reproductive discharges to effectively propagate new life. The timing of coral reproduction, the hive mentalities of ants and bees, the way packs, herds, pods, coveys, schools, and all other collectives of species of life on this planet (including colonies of single celled organisms) work together to enhance their chances of survival, all prove to me that there are hierarchies of collective consciousness. <br /><br />The Earth, our planet, is also an ecosystem, utterly interconnected and interdependent. This planet has created, nurtured, and propagated unfathomably countless variations of lifeforms over the eons of the planet's presence in the cosmos. Until redesigned by human inventions' intervention, the bounty the planet offered seemed limitless. Consequently, it seems obvious to me that there has to exist a planetary consciousness which exists in conjunction with the ecosystem. <br /><br />It is my contention and belief that when individual lifeforms die, each individual consciousness reunites with the planetary consciousness, and that is what I call, "Reuniting with the 'All.'" <br /><br />I can only suggest that, from any logical perspective, the "self," or individual consciousness, would be a puny thing compared with the "All." The only way the "All" can be enriched is by and through the love we bring with ourselves into it at the moment we "step into the light" and reunite with our source, the fountain of life. As the individual consciousness joins with the planetary consciousness, there is no more need for the individual self-awareness to persist. However, all the was the self integrates into the "All," and so it (and each of us with it) lives on in the planetary consciousness. This is why all aspects of personal desire and ego must be purged through the stripping away process contained in pain and suffering as expressed through the process of dying. What is left is the pure love accumulated and expressed in one's lifetime, which then joins with the planetary consciousness, the expression of altruism and love which nurtures physical reality. In this process, the planetary consciousness can be understood as the ever-increasing, ever-intensifying, ever-expanding, ever-diversifying, and infinite expression of the planet's accumulation and apprehension of love. <br /><br />In the same way, our solar system is also an ecosystem, as is the galaxy, the local cluster of galaxies in which our galaxy drifts through space, and on to our universe, indeed, leading all the way to the Multiverse. So, our consciousnesses never die, even though they cease being self-aware. As part of the planetary consciousness, they merge with the solar consciousness when the Sun goes supernova. This accumulation of pure love and eons of nearly infinite expressions of diverse experience will seed the new solar system that arises out of the (quite literal) ashes of the supernova of the previous one. Eventually, when all the available energy in this area has been used, the collective consciousnesses of the many solar systems will join with the galactic consciousness, which will join with the collective consciousness of local cluster of galactic consciousness when our galaxy burns all its energy, and so on, through the merger with the Universal Consciousness, and ultimately, the Multiversal Consciousness. <br /><br />Rather than mourn the passing of those who die in our lives, we should rejoice. Our mourning is an expression of our own losses. But in reality, death purges and perfects the soul, making it ready to reunite with the "All." The soul becomes an instrument of pure and perfect love which then enriches the planetary consciousness, and through it, all of humanity, as well. Suffering ends. The ego is overcome, and the individual expands into the "All" in the merger of reuniting. This is an event to rejoice because love is served. This is the esoteric meaning of "Love-ism." Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-67049115032638691392012-07-03T13:41:00.001-07:002013-05-04T00:27:43.744-07:00The Last DoorPeering into night's deepest ebony wash;<br />
Barely witnessing the last, tiny sliver<br />
Of the moon wane into invisibility;<br />
Palpitating with anticipation as Segovia<br />
Demands absolute silence before plucking a note;<br />
Trudging on, step after step, after exhaustion<br />
Depletes the last ion of energy;<br />
Driving at 3 a.m., still up from the previous 6 a.m.,<br />
Yet unable to find a motel with a vacancy;<br />
Fingers barely gripping handholds near the summit;<br />
Sustaining the last note without taking a breath;<br />
Weeping through dry eyes;<br />
Sucking the last drop from a glass through a straw;<br />
Anticipating the last wave's was upon the shore;</span><br />
Deafened by light passing through the edges of the last door. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365991039083008569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469756386287938907.post-14416507407610509072012-07-03T13:26:00.000-07:002012-07-03T13:26:32.265-07:00Imperceptibly EtchingRed dirt surrounds<br />
cedar trunks whose roots<br />
ache from thirst<br />
but the leaves<br />
flutter on branch fingers<br />
as a slow breeze<br />
inherits moisture<br />
from an electric cloud<br />
<br />
A red ant crawls<br />
toward noon's tolling<br />
boil weaving a sticky<br />
trail to a rabbit<br />
carcass already<br />
picked clean by coyote<br />
pups still shrilly howling<br />
triumphantly charged glee<br />
<br />
The first drops of blood<br />
seep from the spreading<br />
doe mule deer's vagina<br />
bearing her first calf<br />
<br />
The sun moves<br />
imperceptibly etching<br />
a golden arc on an azure arch<br />
<br />
Tired hands roll<br />
tortillas by a fire<br />
where <i>carne asada</i> spits<br />
and sizzles in a pan<br />
<br />
Children's voltage squeals<br />
escape from naked bodies<br />
as they slither through<br />
shaded stream banks<br />
under the watchful<br />
gaze of tomorrow's<br />
red-tailed hawk<br />
demanding from its nest<br />
<br />
In the night where<br />
no moon reigns Grandma<br />
threads smokey fingers<br />
through an old man's<br />
dreams making tacos<br />
for the little boy she<br />
once knew and now sees<br />
bouncing up the porch steps<br />
<br />
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