Those of you who have followed along here with me, and who have read faithfully all along about the various life experiences which took place throughout my accumulation of years so far, know that there has a been a fair amount of diversity in the character and quality of those experiences, and hopefully everyone who … Continue reading When Life Falls Apart
Ever since I first started to understand what it meant to BE a father, I have wanted to be one. My own father was a particularly good role model in most aspects of parenting, and while he ruled over our ultimate accumulation of eight children in our family with a fairly strict hand by today's … Continue reading Consciousness in the World: Being a Dad
"If we seek genuine psychological understanding of the human being of our own time, we must know his spiritual history absolutely. We cannot reduce him to mere biological data, since he is not by nature merely biological, but is a product also of spiritual presuppositions." - -Carl Jung from a presentation at the C. G. … Continue reading Body, Mind, Spirit
photo by Mike Hyland "Once we reach a certain age, we often worry that those precious hours and days--the ones which we remember so fondly and so well--will never come again. We think that all of our best experiences are contained within them, and that all we really have now are our memories of them. … Continue reading Birds of a Feather
"Dreams are but momentary stays against the relentless throbbing of my pulse in waking hours, a pause amidst the endless tide of my heart's longings....the very essence of desire." - JJHIII I had a dream last night about the time I spent in Paris back in the mid-1970's. It felt like I had traveled through … Continue reading The Tides of My Heart’s Longings
We seldom look back over the years of our lives and view them together as a comprehensive whole, but rather, most often, in retrospect, we see ourselves as having experienced a number of “turning points,” and while this terminology does address the sometimes “sudden” nature of what feels like pivotal moments of our lives, it … Continue reading Turning Points are the Peaks of Transitions
One of the greatest musicians of our time, and featured on one of my all-time favorite recordings, Van Cliburn demonstrated some of the finest qualities to which a person can aspire. Some of my earliest memories include listening to recordings of Van Cliburn performing as he did all over the world, and it seems I … Continue reading Van Cliburn 1934-2013
The extraordinary complexity of the human brain, which developed over millions of years of evolution, has finally produced creatures who can acknowledge their existence in a way that complex artificial physical systems may never do. The correlation between the processing of information in the brain, and that which takes place in our most sophisticated computers, … Continue reading A Summary of Quotes from My Blog on Consciousness
As human beings, we are, in large part, unremarkably different from many other species on our planet in our physical core components and basic constituent parts and systems. In our most fundamental nature, we exist physically as they do, we are made up of the same essential molecular structures, we rely on very similar biological … Continue reading A Fundamental Theory of Consciousness
If you've been working with a personal computer for any length of time in your home or office, (and I think it's safe to say most everyone has at least some experience in this regard) or even if you've just heard other people talking about them, you may have heard them use the term "meltdown" … Continue reading Computer Meltdown
John's Consciousness 