Archive for the ‘Mysticism’ Category
The Longplayer
Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again. Conceived and composed by Jem Finer, it was originally produced as [...]
Finding Wisdom among the White Mountain Masters
Once in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago, the Great Sun Buddha in this corner of the Infinite Void gave a Discourse to all the assembled elements and energies: to the standing beings, the walking beings, [...]
Work is love made visible
I’ve read quite a few passages on discovering your authentic work, or what some would refer to as a “calling”. Most recently, I completed a book by Jonathan Haidt named The Happiness Hypothesis in which he quotes Kahlil Gibran in a chapter about Love & Work and how it is linked to a calling or [...]
The Container of Relationship by James Brown
“Do I contradict myself? I am vast, I contain contradictions.”—Walt Whitman
In Plato’s Symposium, Aristophane states that the original nature of man was androgynous, constituted by the union of the male and female, and possessing a duality in all their bodily divisions. “Terrible was their might and strength, and the thoughts of their heart were great, [...]
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