In the Spirit of Friendship
I get email forwards all the time. Most of us do. Today I got one that was a little more inspiring than the average fare, and I thought I would share some of it, with a little commentary. I hope you will find it equally inspiring. People come into your life ...
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February 24, 2010
Crossing the Abyss – A Repost
I originally posted this about a year ago. I just made a permanent page for it (link in the sidebar of this blog), and I'm reposting it here because I don't know if the RSS feed picks up pages. The first time I posted it, it received zero comments, which ...
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January 2, 2010
Belief and Metaphor
This is my second column in Rending the Veil, from January 2007. The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility. — Meridjet Paradigm Shifting and Reality Tunnels "'Paradigm shift[ing]' has found uses. . . representing the notion of a major change in ...
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December 25, 2009
Meridjet Motives in a New Light
I was reading Wikipedia a bit ago, about schema therapy. There was a link at the bottom to their page on Cognitive Dissonance, in which I found this gem: Most of the research on cognitive dissonance takes the form of "induced compliance without sufficient justification." In these studies, participants are ...
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February 12, 2009
The Text of My New About Page
This is a non-commercial blog. I briefly considered commercializing it, but it left a bad taste in my mouth. While I do not make money blogging here, I do accept donations and I do list my services in the sidebar – not to solicit money from my readers, but to ...
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November 10, 2008
Personal Growth Discussion
I was having a chat with a long-lost, rediscovered friend today that resulted in some stuff I wanted to save. Skim if you like, but I recommend reading. We were discussing qabala, and I found some quotes... Sheta: "The word nephesh (soul) designates the lower self in the time of sleep, ...
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May 29, 2008
Historical Recollections, and Fear
I haven’t slept much in the past few days. I wake up within a few hours of going to bed and am unable to go back to sleep. It hasn't been so bad – I’ve been getting around six hours sleep a day – until this morning. This morning, I ...
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