I sent out a newsletter this morning. Being the socially clumsy and poorly-organized man that I am, I don’t know the precise overlap between who reads what I post here and who reads there. If you’re not signed up and you’d like to be, please feel free. And if not, no worries. I have beenContinue reading “Late March Musing”
Author Archives: Sean
We are not Bodies
The body’s adventures always end in death. There is no way out of this. Death touches every aspect of the body’s experience: whatever happens, be it good, bad or in-between, is always terminal. There is nothing that is permanent or consistent in the body, what the body makes, or what the body does. Thus, soContinue reading “We are not Bodies”
A Practice of Forgiveness: A Course in Miracles
Introduction A nontrivial aspect of A Course in Miracles is that as its students we are given a specific (and specialized) language. For example, “forgiveness” in A Course in Miracles means something different than when used in other settings. Use of this shared specific language allows us to be present to one another in waysContinue reading “A Practice of Forgiveness: A Course in Miracles”
Note
This part of the website – posts dedicated to the daily lessons of A Course in Miracles – has gone slowly. Like, very slowly. Part of the reason is time. There is only so much writing and rewriting I can do, given other projects, family, et cetera. Part of it is that I often haveContinue reading “Note”
Recognizing Jesus
Yesterday I suggested that enlightenment is biological, and cited supportingly Humberto Maturana, who is a biologist. George Spencer-Brown observed that when we ask a philosophical question, we get a philosophical answer. It should surprise nobody that a biologist sees enlightenment on biological terms. Yet I also allowed that enlightenment could be magical. Or Christian orContinue reading “Recognizing Jesus”
Enlightenment is Biology Realized
Gregory Bateson observed that often “Enlightenment is a sudden realization of the biological nature of the world in which we live. It is a sudden discovery or realization of life.” Humberto Maturana would surely approve. In “Reality: The Search for Objectivity or the Quest for a Compelling Argument” he wrote: I claim that the explicitContinue reading “Enlightenment is Biology Realized”