Some years ago, I photographed Roy Rogers at a meet and greet in New Jersey. A friend of mine recently forwarded an email which reflected on some of the television characters from our childhood years, like Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, Sky King and Superman and Sgt. Friday, Captain … Continue reading Nostalgia and the Future of Humanity
Digging through the information stored in my brain in memory is sometimes like conducting an archival search of historical records. Even though, according to modern neuroscience, reviewing our memories is not usually a precise recreation of those remembered moments, stored over the years in which they were relegated to long-term status, we actually reassemble the … Continue reading The Archives In My Brain and In My Heart
In this month's edition of my Consciousness Video Series, I put together a review of a recent book by Dr. Alan Lightman called, "The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality In The Age of Science." In a wonderful development, my review of Dr. Lightman's book, "A Sense of the Mysterious," apparently caught his eye, and he sent me … Continue reading Consciousness Video Series: Episode 11: The Transcendent Brain Reply to Alan Lightman +plus: A Porch With A View
I am more aware than ever of my fragility and my mortality. Lately, everything I see and take in reminds me that, as time progresses, there may now be much less time to waste, and yet sometimes what to a casual observer may seem like wasting time is actually an effort to completely immerse myself … Continue reading Reminiscing and Reverie
Recent reading and investigation have inspired a wave of inner reflection and contemplation about the nature of my personal experience as a human person, and what exactly the point of it all might be in the first place. Clearly, the specific details of my personal life—the epoch into which my arrival on this planet took … Continue reading Life Events and My Personal Writing Space
It’s fairly unusual in my experience to encounter individuals who embody the very essence of my writing work—the central theme of my writing and the publicizing of my thoughts on my blog, “John’s Consciousness.” Within a whole range of social interactions over decades, I have experienced a number of serendipitous connections which I immediately feel, … Continue reading Invisible Connections
I came across this quote a while ago, and at first felt as though Epicurus was simply trying to encourage people of all ages to be open to acquiring wisdom, regardless of their age. Thinking about it at length, though, I wondered if his phrasing was sufficiently clear. The idea of “seeking wisdom,” while noble … Continue reading The Wisdom of Seeking
“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds...is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.” --Rachel Carson … Continue reading Consciousness Video Series: Episode 9: Journey Into Nature
“We are at this moment participating in one of the very greatest leaps of the human spirit to a knowledge not only of outside nature, but also of our own deep inward mystery.”—Joseph Campbell While Joseph Campbell lived, he was considered as perhaps the most important scholar of the mythologies of the world. His seminal … Continue reading The Man, The Myth, The Legend
The title of this posting has expanded well beyond my initial idea for it, and as I explored a number of resources in the research phase of the writing process, I began to see part of the reason why there is a kind of muddling in the terminology between all of those listed in the … Continue reading Metaphysical, Mystical, Mythological, Metaphorical, or Just Plain Mysterious?
John's Consciousness 