Feb 23 2026
Aggregates
Parallel to the Buddhist Aggregates I image nine Aggregates that define my world: Examing these I find them all to be satisfactory and easy to maintain. Nothing requires major change or effort.
Visions
Apr 17 2022
Magic Mushrooms
In April 2022 I began micro-dosing on Psilocybin mushrooms by taking a gram dose every third day. I varied the dosing and timing going as high as seven grams. In no case did I experience hallucinations. I did have ‘visions’ of a sort. One vision was a solution to a a problem in my dissertation of […]
Aug 26 2019
Days
BY PHILIP LARKIN What are days for?Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over.They are to be happy in: Where can we live but days? Ah, solving that questionBrings the priest and the doctor In their long coatsRunning over the fields. At my 70th birthday celebration I raised the question with multiple; people what […]
Feb 14 2017
Autobiographies
In my life I have written several short autobiographies . Three were school related; one for high school creative writing, one for entry into Long Beach State College, and one for transfer to UC Santa Barbara. I have only the draft copies of these. I also presented myself through my resume and several bio’s for […]
Nov 26 2014
Influential Books
Jame Joyce Ulysses Roberto Calasso The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, and Ka Norman O. Brown Loves Body Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness Karl Marx Capital Hebert Marcuse Eros and Civilization Steven Pinker The Blank Slate T. S. Eliot Selected Poems Northrop Frye Fearful Symmetry David Riesman The Lonely Crowd W.B. Yeats Mythologies Rainer Maria […]
Oct 6 2014
Friends
Lancaster David Camp, Eddie Glaser, Randy Hedges, Lodi Kenny Good, Mike Clements, Craig Wittmeier, Lyndon Bittle, Gary Baumbach, Hugh Linstrom, Margret Linstrom, David Riggle, Jim Blood, Greg Kennedy Ray Nakabiashi Long Beach Steve Casperson, Byron Brooks, Kathy Ross, Ed Morouski, Santa Barbara Russ Tealle, Dave Svec, Ed Gordon, Wes, Greg Dandy, JoAnn and Steve, Putter […]
Jul 19 2007
Annual Something New
When I retired I decided to, at least once a year, try something new. Perhaps something that would change my life.
Nov 28 2006
Buddhism
After taking up Vipsanna meditation, I became more and more interested in Buddhism. I read many books on the subject. By 2006 I was ready to declare myself a Buddhist. Come 2022 I became a lapsed Buddhist. I was increasingly aware how radically Western liberals had edited Buddhism–they added secular Protestant morality, worshiped antiracism, anti […]
Jan 29 2003
Vipassana Meditation Retreat
Took a ten day Vipassana meditation retreat in Kelseyville CA. Began a long term meditation practice and began to learn about Buddhism.
Oct 29 2000
Bringing Thought, Body, and Life Together
In the early 2000’s I worked to integrate my understanding of life. These notes are a summary
Oct 29 1993
Crisis During Divorce
After I separated from Patty I spend two to three years in pain. I was uncertain who I was, what I wanted, where I was going. I went up to the redwoods for a solitary retreat and drew this pictures. Loading the terror was from my childhood. (Perhaps about age 5) I had dark dreams […]
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Feb 25 2026
Morality Typology
Human Morality Typology This is the first draft of an attempt to build a three-part typology of human morality. The three types are: Social Morality Social morality is the public presentation of what we believe and stand for. It believes the self is a good person and going to heaven. It presents self as moral […]
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