By seeing every human being as consciously or unconsciously acting out an idiosyncratic fantasy, we can see the distinctively human, as opposed to the animal portion of each human life as the use for symbolic purposes of every particular person, object, situation, event, and word encountered in later life. This process amounts to redescribing…
SEDUCED BY HATE, INDIAN POLITICIAN EMBRACES A LYNCH MOB By Jeffrey Gettleman and Hari Kumar July 20, 2018 HAZARIBAGH, India — Jayant Sinha is a Celtics fan. He graduated from Harvard. He worked for McKinsey. Born and raised in India but minted in the United States, he found wealth and success in the Boston…
Perhaps you will agree that a vacation time away permits one some different choices about the foci of one’s attention. In our ordinary lives, the “blind impress” of accrued circumstances can be oppressive. We feel the need to “get away” to a destination affording different scenery, perhaps time for more reading, fewer phone calls,…
Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking. —Martin Heidegger Gary kindly shared a quote that prompted him to consider afresh his conception of Reason. The quotation had the same effect upon me. And as a bonus, Gary…
Chaos is not the enemy. It is a tempting jump to this conclusion. Is it not the case that the disorganized, and even threatening elements of experience provide material for making a habitat of mind? I think so. Organization arises from the mind, and especially from the give and take of shared minds with…
These photos were taken at the Rivera Boat House at Lake Geneva this past Sunday afternoon. Lake Geneva on a Sunday afternoon is close enough to Paradise as far as I am concerned. The lake stretches to the horizon, the surface sparkling in the sun, a platter of diamonds. We walked out on the…
Each of us desired to be happy, once. As the years pass many give up the quest and the hope of happiness. Happiness, the contentment of well-being diminishes as time takes its toll. It’s not a matter of money. Financial resources while necessary to happiness are not sufficient. The most important aspects of happiness…
This image was received from a friend. The quality of this photograph is obvious. I have never been to Yellowstone. This photo transports me emotionally to that landscape, its loneliness, to the emergence of life amidst the rocky crag. To my mind the image is titled, “One Tree Hill.” An image of a universe…….
Philosophy is becoming, not history; it is the coexistence of planes, not the succession of systems. We will say that the plane of immanence is, at the same time, that which must be thought and that which cannot be thought. It is the nonthought within thought. …It is the most intimate within thought and…
The year was 1965. I was a member of an Eagle Scout Troop sponsored by Monsanto. Our meetings typically were in the lab where our scoutmaster worked at the Monsanto Research Triangle facility. I’ve never forgotten the evening. I remember the whine of the power supply and capacitors powering up. Then we heard the…
