Starting up, stepping out, taking off

July 5, 2009

It is time to start this blog site moving again, after a long absence.
I have used the term “stepping out” in the title of this post, because it came up in a discussion with a friend. We need to be willing to put ourselves forward, to inhabit our lives fully, and this means making ourselves [...]

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Who are we in our dreams?

November 18, 2006

People get very excited about lucid dreaming, but there is a simpler kind of lucidity I think it would be nice to cultivate (or manifest) in dreams.
In our waking lives, there are certain questions that deeply interest us. Some of them may have to do with looking at our experience in certain ways. For instance, [...]

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Writing as a Discipline

October 27, 2006

I have always felt that I do my best thinking while I am writing. First comes the initial insight (and perhaps this is the best part of the thought, in one sense, but read on). Then, when it comes time to write that insight down, I discover that the insight is something more like an [...]

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“Sound is touch at a distance”

October 11, 2006

The quote above is from a radio show I heard this evening, driving home, and it’s from a neurologist who points out that sound does in fact arise from air waves touching the small bones of the ear, and eventually being translated into electrical current; according to current research, electrical currents that are rhythmic produce [...]

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What counts as knowledge: airport security as a test case

September 30, 2006

The United States government has revised its rules for allowing liquids on board airplanes: You can now bring on board 3 oz. plastic bottles, as long as they fit in a quart-sized sealable plastic pouch.
The emphasis on numbers and metrics shows that a certain kind of knowledge is in operation. Screening agents are not asked [...]

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