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Dimensional Metaphysics

March 28th, 2008 Adam

This is a short essay on the plausibility of considering mind to be a dimension, a category of actuality that interpenetrates with all the other dimensions of time, space, matter and energy.
In the last two centuries we have discovered the existence of realms of existence that we hadn’t known about before, that are not included […]

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The Fuddy-Duddy Complex

March 21st, 2008 Adam

This is a complex of a number of associated images, thoughts, and feelings that emerge regarding the theme of entertaining opinions and judgments about things that really don’t concern you. It occurred to me that this is a not uncommon theme for parents of adult children whose life choices differ in various ways from your […]

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Two Aspects of Religion

March 16th, 2008 Adam

Traditional religions combined law and spirituality, but in the modern age, law and civility in general has become separated from the more mythic elements of spirituality. Where there has evolved a rather vigorous sense of civility, secularism shows its more progressive side, and law and civility is a sort of secular religion—in the sense of […]

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Improvisation and the Burden of Shame

March 2nd, 2008 Adam

Hypothesis: A key element in improvisation is the willingness—even a bit of an expectation—to make mistakes, with a fair degree of confidence that when these mistakes are made, they can be coped with in a number of ways:
– joked about, with gentle, self-forgiving, self-deprecating humor
exaggerated pride, consciously denied (“well, that was just what I planned,” […]

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