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 … Read more
Parallel to the Buddhist aggregates, I imagine ten aggregates that define my world: Examining these, I find them all satisfactory and easy to maintain. Nothing requires major change or effort.
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 problem in my dissertation of long … Read more
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 a question with several people: what … Read more
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 bios for conferences … Read more
James Joyce Ulysses Roberto Calasso The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, and Ka Norman O. Brown Love’s Body Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness Karl Marx Capital Herbert 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 … Read more
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 … Read more
When I retired I decided to, at least once a year, try something new. Perhaps something that would change my life.
After taking up Vipassana 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 of how radically Western liberals had edited Buddhism—they had added secular Protestant morality, worshiped … Read more
I took a ten-day Vipassana meditation retreat in Kelseyville, California, which began a long-term meditation practice and my study of Buddhism.
In the early 2000s I worked to integrate my understanding of life. These notes are a summary.
After I separated from Patty I spent two or 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 these pictures. “Loading the terror” came from my childhood (perhaps about age five). I had dark dreams … Read more
In high school and during my first two years of college, I wrote poetry. The style was somewhere between e. e. cummings and Allen Ginsberg.
