Introducing
Chuck Greenwood:
Chuck and I go way back, to Berkeley and the late 60's and
on. He retreated to the Mountains, and I stayed
in the Cities. We are both retired and he's
finally got around to starting to write. He has a lot
to say, and here is a
link to his first
visit to the Internet via a web page (he's on Facebook, and
just learning). I'm hoping to help him build his own
website or find a place in which to park his writing and
advertise his wares.
Introducing
Don Cruse: Don wrote a
book: Evolution
and the New Gnosis: Anti-establishment
Essays on KnowledgeScience, Religion and Causal Logic.
It
is a collection of essays and well worth owning and
reading. He was also an
anthroposophist/inventer/philosopher - in a way, and a
story teller, such that he tells the story
of a "machine" that mixes things in an entirely new
way. Here are links to videos about him and the story
of this machine. There are three, for a total of
about 30 minutes. The complete film was called:
"The Mysteries of Kinematic Inversion: The Old Man and the
Oloid" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4V9AG_qztk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S35abgBK6xo http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5JOfkkwLbo
See also this website: inversionmixers.com
Only a few people could
have told this very important "story".
David
Wingroves remarkable
essay
on the Chinese Politburo: Nine
Men.
Bioneers:
Something
unusual is going on out there, and these folks
are a quite valuable nexus for it. Imagine a
regular early fall gathering, not too long after
Michaelmas, in which the brightest and the best from
the environmental movement and activist social
movements (Civil Society) gather together and share
their very best inspirations, as well as stories about
their practices and actions.
The Idea of Mind: in the early 1990's I undertook to come to terms with certain ideas then beginning to circulate in the field of neurophysiology concerning the relationship between mind and brain chemistry. Since my own experience as a Christian meditator contradicted the leading ideas, which attributed mind to brain physiology, and nothing more, I wrote this essay as an effort to contribute to the ongoing work in the study of consciousness.
A Matter of Death: a short essay on the question of what is death.
On Becoming a Real Wizard - latest version of my understanding of the magical aspect of existence.