Titles, Titles & More Titles

Preface

Preface

Greetings,

At some point, during the years since these philosophical-mystical thoughts started getting scribbled, circa 1989, titles began coming to mind; titles that could spin into every sort of rambling pithiness in both oral and written venues. The list grew, and continues growing, into what swims about in the deep below, and I gave them their own title in 2018.

A PDF is available at:

Titles, Titles & More Titles

http://www.thestillnessbeforetime.com/titlestitlesandmoretitles.pdf

Please note that titles that are those of well-known books, bands, movies, and other copyrighted works, are being used to my own ends, and without any hope of remuneration, so no harm, no foul, is my defense to any litigious sorts. I can always claim insanity.

Writing has been an enjoyable process ever since I first began toying with prose; scribbling poetry, keeping journals, corresponding with friends and acquaintances during the college daze. The philosophical/mystical/whatever-you-want-to-call-them thoughts, that have been popping into mind since 1989, have always been very out-of-the-blue spontaneous. Nothing planned or forced about them. They are being shared on the off chance that others may find them of interest, though, quite frankly, it really does not matter if no one else ever even reads them, for I am, first and foremost, my own audience. I got mine, so to speak. I played my little part. I had my share of fun. And it is, as it has ever been, up to each to discern their own, on their own. There are really no followers in this Don Quixote quest; only earnest seekers, who waylay their desires and fears and dreads, enough to discern that which is the end to doubt, the end to dueling with windmills. “Yay” if it is your fate to figure it out. “Oh well” if it is not. And “so it goes” either way, really. Ecclesiastes 1:2 is always a good reminder: “Vanity of vanities,” saith the Preacher, “Vanity of vanities. All is vanity.” Awareness can only, with great effort, regain control, regain sovereignty, from the usurper, imagination, creator of all that is time, creator of all that is space. Creator of all that is illusion, has never been anything more than illusion, will never be anything more than illusion. Only as real as the given moment.

“The Stillness Before Time” is the original work that came together in 1992, including mostly aphorisms, an essay, a newspaper question-and-answer, ten reflections, and lists of both movies and books. Though an early self-published version, long since edited and expanded, can be purchased at major booksellers, a downloadable copy is available, no charge, at the link below. There are also links to a variety of blogs of other creations by me, along with links to many writings of a similar nature, by thinkers and seers from across all times, across all geographies.

"The Ponderings of Yaj Ekim" is the second published book, and is both blogged and available as a PDF download.

The “Breadcrumbs” titles, published annually since 2015, all include the core chapters: Leftovers, Soundbites, Breadcrumbs. In the Breadcrumbs chapters, I unleash thoughts of a more personal nature than in the other two. All just to show I was ensconced in a living, breathing, relativity mundane, oftentimes foolish, mortal mind-body. An actor playing the hand that was dealt; same as everyone else, vain as everyone else. No need to sculpt me into more than I was. No need for myths, nor legends, nor fables, nor miracles, nor cult followings, nor any other fictions, any other absurdities, over to which the human mind, and all its imaginary history, has so often given itself. The Breadcrumbs chapters prove me again and again to be yet another Shakespearian player, as full of the limited and arbitrary as anyone else born into this dream of space and time. So please be sure not to shape me, or these many random thoughts, into some dogmatic absurdity. Use them as a launchpad, not an orbit.

“The Return to Wonder” blog is a compendium of aphorisms not included in the three other works: The Stillness Before Time, The Ponderings of Yaj Ekim, and Breadcrumbs. It originally totaled 3,000 pages formatted in 300 ten-page chapters written since 1990-ish. A gradual editing that will likely never be completed, is changing that dynamic into something of a mishmash.

Please note that this sort of wordplay is very haphazard, way too much work to put into any order. Probably best read it in bits and pieces in the here and there. One of those open-to-any-page works. Especially well-suited for coffee shops, coffee tables, and porcelain thrones.

Also note that all writings are always subject to updates and editing, so if you are interested in the most current version – before this house of cards comes tumbling down, and the world grows large again – downloading PDF copies every once and a while might be a reasonable discipline. This applies especially to the current year of Breadcrumbs, which could well be an annual project until the last wheezing breath, though frankly, the temptation to stop writing entirely is not off the table. It is a pleasant way to pass some of the countdown remaining, but it is unlikely there is much ground that has not been wandered by this frame of reference far more than enough already. No matter how many times Sisyphus rolls the boulder up the mountain, it is more than a little doubtful that the blind men and their true-believer followers, will ever discern, ever realize, ever embrace, the elephant in the middle of the room, without fabricating some new form of absurdity. It is the way we roll, it is the way we have always rolled, it is the way we will, far more than probably, always roll. Every species has its limitations, and we have in this mind’s eye, far-exceeded ours.

That said, if you do find these many thoughts at all worth preserving, for whatever times are ahead for this world and all its life forms, please feel free to share them with others who might also appreciate them. Else they may well swiftly slip back into the timeless oblivion from whence they came.

So it goes, either way. I played my part, I said my piece, I had my fun.

All the best,

P.S. For best viewing online, using the largest screen you have available to explore my little theme park, is suggested. Scrolling down and down on a phone screen is just not going to give you the same entrée.

P.P.S. Regarding the name Yaj Ekim ... It is just a reverse spelling of the first and middle names ... Michael Jay Holshouser ... Mike Jay ... Yaj Ekim.

P.P.P.S. Coincidently, make of it whatever you will, or will not, Yaj is an Indian boy’s name meaning worshipper, sacrifice, another name for Shiva, a sage. And Ekim is a Turkish name for October meaning “sowing” (of seeds). All kinds of absurdity can be read into that by the many, so-inclined – none of which was in mind when the idea came to reverse the letters to my name. See P.P.S. for details.

P.P.P.P.S. Yes, I am Shiva. And so are You. No, I am not Shiva. And neither are you. Irony and paradox rule.

The Stillness Before Time

Reflections From a Fellow Sojourner

Website

The Stillness Before Time
Reflections From a Fellow Sojourner
https://thestillnessbeforetime.com/

There is really only one Way.

It is without division or boundary.

It is without name or theology.

Awareness is its scripture.

Here now, its venue.

You, its witness.

Your life, the journey.

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Titles, Titles & More Titles

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The mystery in which each and every one

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Titles, Titles & More Titles

Titles, Titles & More Titles

The Quantum Soul

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A Taste of Oblivion

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The Lie That Mind Built

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The Hedonist’s Guide to Higher Consciousness

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The Song of Michael

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Dying on the Vine, Pretending You Are Wine

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Idolatry: Don’t Do It

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The Art of Puttering

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No Happy Ending

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The One and Only Moment

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Rocky Roads, Rocky Minds

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The Duality Delusion

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Irrational Realism

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Destiny's Rainbow

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Yeesch and By Golly

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Makes Your Head Hurt

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Figments of Imagination

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Sword and Plow

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You Are No Exception

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The Empty Word

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Tomorrow Is Already Yesterday

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Just Imagination

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A Soliloquy on the Mystery

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Bubbles of Mind

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Truth Needs No Voice

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Name That Cult

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Air That Breaths

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All Fates Find the Same Grave

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From Womb to Grave

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As if Forever Exists

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The Age of Exponentiality

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The Age of Accelerating Exponential

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The Pitter-Patter Mind

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How Do You Explain Nothing?

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The Aloneness is Real

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All is Process

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The Isles of Consumption

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Death Wish

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The Screen Rules

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The Chains of Existence

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Dust Becomes You

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Old Dust

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Old Enough Not to Care

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Thing Management

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Extinction is the Way

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Death is Freedom

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The Minions of Artificial Intelligence

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The First Taste

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Shaking the Magic Eight Ball

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A Tool for the Ages

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Delusional Rationalism

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Buddha Boy

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The Dreamsong of Mystery

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The Dreamsong of Dreamtime

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Oh Boy, a New Pile

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The Kingdom of Mystery

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The Eternal Moment

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Crusades Y2K, Coming Your Way

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The Mind of Mystery

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The Clayness of Mystery

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A House of Mystery

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The Vanity of Legacy

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Snatches of a Dream

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The Wisdom of the String

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Vanity and Bones

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The Justification Games

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The End of Mankind

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Be Your Self: Love Your Mystery

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A Doleful Sound

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Didn’t See That One Coming

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Yet Another Collector’s Item

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The Influencers

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Finally Figured It Out

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Thought is a Habit

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My Two Cents

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Connecting Dots

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Peace at Last

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Metaphors Abound

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An Affinity for Oblivion

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What’s Another Number?

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Drifting in Bliss

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The Roar of the Civilized Man

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Follow the Water

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It’s the Monkey in Me

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All of the Above, None of the Above

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How Many Times Has That Been?

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No Sign of Redemption

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What It Boils Down To

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Adrift in Absurdity

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Regurgitating Reality

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It Takes a Moment

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You Will Know It When You See It

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The Race to Oblivion

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Dramas

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Dreamas

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How Green the Grass, Everywhere Else

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A Fountain of Nonduality

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Re-Minding Your Mind

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The One Trick Pony

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A Truth for All

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The Good Steward

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Let Us Know When You Find Your Face

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Your Deity of Choice

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Lark In, Lark About, Lark Out

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Go Timeless

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The Mystery Before Time

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Timeless Being

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The Straw House That Imagination Built

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The Moment Before Time

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The Clock Watcher’s Curse

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Nothing But Process

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Another Way of Looking

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The Minions of Imagination

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Nothing Better to Do

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My Precious

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You Only Think You Are Alive

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A Planless Plan

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Poster Pap

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Interesting Times, Indeedy.

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Your Own Law

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Thou Art My Am

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The When-Not-If Actuality

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The Truth of It Goes Without Saying.

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The Maya Games

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The Shadows of Serendipity

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The Crystal Ball

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Bondage Without Anchor

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The Nebulous Mind

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Zen Zone One

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Individual Indivisibility

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The Measuring Mind

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Shakespeare Live

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The Knee-Jerk Response

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Child’s Play

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A World of Dreams

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The Beginning of All Beginnings

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The End of All Ends

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The Stresses That Shape You

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No Mercy

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An Impromptu Play

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Every Moment, a Choice

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Rhetorical Rationalization

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Die Again Today

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God Has Never Been a Concept

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Sweet Surrender

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God Loves Dice, Mr. Einstein

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The Skewer of Time

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Dream Walkers, Dream Stalkers

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Flawed Perfection

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Thanks for Nothing

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Death Trumps All

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Nothing is Good

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Natural Selection at Its Finest

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The Echoes of Solitude

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The Tyranny of Neurons

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As the Moment Calls

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Welcome to the Twilight Zone

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The Blue Hollow

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When Measurements Go South

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Nothing Sounds Good

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As the Crow Flies

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Natural Selection at Its Finest

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The Sediment of Time

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The Toolmakers

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The Final Harbor

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Seeds of Irony

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Flowers of Paradox

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The Dogma Games

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A Little Matrix of Horrors

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The Hollow Trail

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The Dusty Mouse

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Singularity

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Oblivion’s Portal

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The Kit and Kaboodle

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The Niches That Yawn Filled

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The Uncarvable Block

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The Grand Hoax

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The Dystopian Paradise

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The Great Healing

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Journal of a Wayward Self

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You Are, Have Always Been, Will Ever Be

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The On and Off of All Things Great and Small

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The Ever-Present Story

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The Great Whatever

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The Infinity Beyond Known

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Eden’s Madhouse

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The Journey Through Dusty Hollow

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The Greatest Experiment

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The Quantum Sea

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The Chronicles of Oblivion

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Beyond Gaia

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The Grand Indifference

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Nothing Less, Nothing More, Nothing But

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The Blend of a Lifetime

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The Idolatry Games

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Of Irony and Paradox

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Portals to Oblivion

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Nothing Happened

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The Way of Yaj Ekim

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Bordering on Contentment

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Vanity’s Rainbow

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The Book of Irony and Paradox

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The Road Home

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The Pathless Home

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The Indifferent Instant

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The Indivisible Nada

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Veil Runner

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No Going Back

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Reflections From a Gypsy Sojourner

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Fettered in Time

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The World According to Yaj

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The Meat Machines of God

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The Sum of all Fears

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The Origin of Time

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Paradox

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Irony

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The Depths of Consciousness

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The Journey of Paradox

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Where Ripples Go

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Of Ripples and Tides

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The Scribbles of Eternity

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A Yearning for Oblivion

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Prior to All Things Cosmos

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A Dose of Verdad

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The Way It Is

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A Squandered Inheritance

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Hatchlings of Stillness

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Nothing’s Happening

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The Puddle of Time

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The Grand Equation

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The Usual Serendipity

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The Ground of Time

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God’s Portal

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The Remnants of Desire

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Eternity’s Scribe

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The Matrix of Now

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A Missive from Eternity

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The Quantum Portal

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A Voyage in Time

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Portal to Eternity

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The Vanity of Humanity

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The One and Only Now

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Portal to the Unknown

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The Here Now of Eternity

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The Cloud of Consciousness

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Portal to the Stars

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From Here to Eternity

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A Game of Charades

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The Portal to Infinity

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The Wormhole of Mind

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Eternity’s Portal

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The Nothing of Everything

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The Corporeal Estate

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The Human Pandemic

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The Miasma of Idolatry

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The Winds of Vanity

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Quantum Fever

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The Bewitching of the Sensory Mind

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Unfinished Business

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Bits and Pieces

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WTF Is This Shit!?

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The Ever-Changing Now

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The Metaphor Wars

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The Conscious Eye

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The Quantum Brew

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The Esoteric Mirage

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A Bleak Inheritance

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A Cosmic Thesis

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A Sediment of Time

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The Path to Glory

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From Shit to Shinola; There and Back

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The Delusion Games

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Smoke is in Your Eyes

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The Path of Least Resistance

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The Human Genome

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The Limits of Fear

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The Great Nada

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The Mortal Faire

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Dogma Incorporated

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The Dystopian Harmonic

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The Golden Ground

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The Truth Abides

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The Zero-Sum of Time

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The Daily Ponder

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Of Bullshit and Mayhem

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The Cynic’s Nightmare

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The Golden Theater

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The Hope Games

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Chaos Rules

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The Crystal Palace

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The Infant’s Challenge

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The Tawdry Beast

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The Eternal Now

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The Quantum Theater

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The Matrix

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The Shit of Dinosaurs

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The Perfect World

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The Banshee Letters

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The Idiot’s Guide to the Universe

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The Scar Tissue of Imagination

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The Effort Trap

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The Biological Imperative

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The Sensory Now

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The Futility of Intelligence

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The Insignificance of Self

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The Hokum Trail

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Of Bother and Boredom

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Oh Well, So What, Who Cares?

* * * *

The Compromise of Existence

* * * *

The Quantum Notebook

* * * *

The Unbridled Mind

* * * *

Of Ethical Dilemmas and Other Absurdities

* * * *

Bringing in the Sheaves

* * * *

Of Full Bellies and Safe Harbors

* * * *

The Loyal Cynic

* * * *

The Absurdity Chronicles

* * * *

Of Desire and Fear

* * * *

The Garrote of Time

* * * *

So It Goes

* * * *

The Paradox of Duality

* * * *

The Matrix of Mind

* * * *

Of Glass Houses and First Stones

* * * *

The Wheel of Oblivion

* * * *

Memo to God

* * * *

The Guru Game

* * * *

Time Crunches On

* * * *

The Finite Mind

* * * *

Harvest

* * * *

Streets of Gold

* * * *

The Grand Buddhafest Hotel

* * * *

The Genome Paradigm

* * * *

The Alonesness

* * * *

The Moment Prior to Fate

* * * *

Notions Unlimited

* * * *

The Streaming of Time

* * * *

The Instant Universe

* * * *

The Democracy of Eternity

* * * *

The Sensory Agenda

* * * *

The Feast of Worms

* * * *

Heart of Gold

* * * *

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

* * * *

The Smokey Mind

* * * *

Behind the Eight Ball

* * * *

The Other Side of Nowhere

* * * *

Born to Die

* * * *

The Unknowable Path

* * * *

The Anonymous One and Only

* * * *

Be Now Here

* * * *

The Absurdity of Time

* * * *

The Nowhere Man

* * * *

Prior to Cause

* * * *

Oblivion’s Rainbow

* * * *

Look for Your Self

* * * *

The Shield of Imagination

* * * *

The Decline of Desire

* * * *

Babble Wonk

* * * *

The Lie of Authority

* * * *

Beyond the Pale

* * * *

Beyond the Monkey-Mind

* * * *

A Tale of Hokum

* * * *

None of the Above

* * * *

Beyond Fear

* * * *

The Feast of Oblivion

* * * *

The Defiance of Fear

* * * *

The Effect of Cause

* * * *

On Believing in Nothing

* * * *

¡Magnífico! Magnifique! Ausgezeichnet!

* * * *

The Experiencing of Experience

* * * *

The Tawdry Cloud

* * * *

The Demise of Reason

* * * *

Born to Want

* * * *

As Real As It Gets

* * * *

A Smidgeon in Time

* * * *

The Seething Mind

* * * *

Handbasket Hell

* * * *

The Goldilocks Syndrome

* * * *

All for Naught

* * * *

The Monkey-Mind

* * * *

Whereabouts Unknown

* * * *

The Namaste Vein

* * * *

The Dream of Time

* * * *

Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t

* * * *

The Eternal Conundrum

* * * *

Somebody in the Quantum Sea

* * * *

Home Court

* * * *

The Passionate Mind

* * * *

Been There, Done That

* * * *

Why So Lonely?

* * * *

Epiphany Central

* * * *

The Hapless Buddha

* * * *

Have You Found Your Face Yet?

* * * *

The People of One Book

* * * *

Awareness: Nothing more, Nothing Less, Nothing But

* * * *

A Revolution Unto Self

* * * *

The Portal to Eternity

* * * *

Idolatry: Don’t Do It

* * * *

Keep Your Nose on Your Own Face

* * * *

An Esoteric Work

* * * *

The Taste of Grok

* * * *

A Taste to Be Grokked

* * * *

The Bittersweet of Grok

* * * *

The Stepping Stones of Fate

* * * *

Place Your Bets, Ladies and Gentlemen

* * * *

Embrace Your Self

* * * *

One Is All, All Are One

* * * *

Mystics at Large

* * * *

Mystiques en Liberté

* * * *

There It Is

* * * *

A Call to Revolution

* * * *

The Magical-Mystery Matrix

* * * *

The Portal of Attention

* * * *

Sage Advice

* * * *

Why Do You Do That to Your Self?

* * * *

The History of Mystery

* * * *

Oblivion Calls

* * * *

The Bittersweet of Fate

* * * *

The Rubbernecker

* * * *

The Looky-Loo

* * * *

The Tire-Kicker

* * * *

Textbook

* * * *

A Portal to Infinity

* * * *

Witness to a Quantum Dream

* * * *

Nothing is Free

* * * *

All Judgment is Arbitrary

* * * *

Nothing Rules

* * * *

As the Mind Moves

* * * *

Eternity's Song

* * * *

Chiseling in Stone in the Sands of Time

* * * *

Harvesting Wisdom From Chaos

* * * *

The Indifferent Sentience

* * * *

Every Moment a Decision

* * * *

The Great Is

* * * *

A Dark Forever

* * * *

The Polarization of Time

* * * *

Wrapping Your Head Around It

* * * *

The Rest of the Story

* * * *

The Great Silence

* * * *

Snippets From a Dream

* * * *

The Eternal Mind

* * * *

Flowing With Eternity

* * * *

What Are You Smoking?

* * * *

The Bill of Goods

* * * *

It Is All About Choices

* * * *

Send in the Drones

* * * *

The Mantra of Existence

* * * *

The Universe That Imagination Built

* * * *

The End of Idolatry

* * * *

The Immeasurable Moment

* * * *

Snowflakes in the Sand

* * * *

Eternity’s Moment

* * * *

Like It Never Happened

* * * *

Who Buries Who

* * * *

Where Time Is Not Counted, and Space, Not Measured

* * * *

Snippets From a Rabbit Hole

* * * *

An Opus to the Mystery

* * * *

How Alone is Alone?

* * * *

The Harvest of Gloom and Doom

* * * *

The Indifferent Moment

* * * *

Mind Spark

* * * *

Mindspark

* * * *

You Are the Mitote

* * * *

This is It

* * * *

Your Song of God

* * * *

Options, Lots of Options

* * * *

The Infinite Ocean

* * * *

Home Alone

* * * *

As Flawed as Everyone Else

* * * *

Staring into the Abyss

* * * *

The Courage to Stand Alone

* * * *

Perfection!

* * * *

So Boggling

* * * *

Every Moment the Same

* * * *

The Yawning Abyss

* * * *

The Children of One Book

* * * *

Unplugging Darwin

* * * *

Found Your Face Yet?

* * * *

Family, An Overrated Anachronism

* * * *

Hallowed Ground

* * * *

It Is for Time to Tell

* * * *

Children of the Cloud

* * * *

It Takes Time, It Takes Space

* * * *

The Gorging

* * * *

Gist Enough

* * * *

Arrogance: A Bliss of Its Own

* * * *

The Lie of Freedom

* * * *

Have You Been Teched Enough Yet?

* * * *

So Much to Be Forgotten

* * * *

Connecting the Dots

* * * *

The First Birth

* * * *

The Unattended Promise

* * * *

Measuring Illusion

* * * *

The Tabula Rasa of all Beginnings

* * * *

Very Darwin

* * * *

The Imaginarium of Mind

* * * *

The Greatest Absurdity Ever Told

* * * *

The Man With the Crystal Ball

* * * *

The Natural State

* * * *

The Winds of Illusion

* * * *

A Thing for Things

* * * *

The Spawn of Imagination

* * * *

Once Was Enough

* * * *

The Hum-Drum Existence

* * * *

History Happens

* * * *

The Pawns of Imagination

* * * *

Stroll On

* * * *

Do You Feed Your Tongue or Your Body?

* * * *

Memory’s Destiny

* * * *

The New Dogma

* * * *

The Unattainable

* * * *

The Ignorance of Vanity

* * * *

The Vanity of Ignorance

* * * *

The Latest Sun God

* * * *

Born Quantum

* * * *

Master of Nothing

* * * *

Quantum Free

* * * *

Extinction is Nothing New

* * * *

Tomorrow's Big Day

* * * *

Cut to the Chase

* * * *

In-Lightenment

* * * *

Mind-Spinners and Their Spins

* * * *

Breathe Through It

* * * *

Posterity, Preposterous-iosity

* * * *

Waiting Room Madness

* * * *

The Guiding of Pain

* * * *

Confessions of a Criminal Mind.

* * * *

The Voice of Wisdom

* * * *

Raging Content

* * * *

Inattention: The First and Last Mistake

* * * *

Quit Your Whining

* * * *

Abiding in Emptiness

* * * *

Gaia’s Scribe

* * * *

The Devil’s Apprentice

* * * *

The Journey of Detachment

* * * *

The Great Aloneness

* * * *

Nothing to Hope For

* * * *

You Are the Truth, the Life, the Way

* * * *

Be That I Am

* * * *

The Self of All Selves

* * * *

Quantum Charade

* * * *

The Clarity of the Coreless

* * * *

A Blink of Eternity

* * * *

The Matrix v. Maze Debate

* * * *

Awareness: The First and Last Frontier

* * * *

The Devil's Due

* * * *

The Soliloquy of Illusion

* * * *

The Cutting Edge

* * * *

The Moment is That I Am

* * * *

The Self of All Things

* * * *

The Monkey Minds

* * * *

The Mountain of Consequence

* * * *

A Taste for Lightness

* * * *

A Taste for Darkness

* * * *

A Taste for Oblivion

* * * *

3.8 Billion Years of Darwin, and Counting

* * * *

Something for Everyone

* * * *

Freedom From the Known

* * * *

The Brass Ring: A Slippery Thing

* * * *

On Death and Dying

* * * *

The Pffft of Free Will

* * * *

The Self Prior to All

* * * *

The Egalitarian Set

* * * *

The Great Deceiver

* * * *

How Can You Solve a Dream?

* * * *

Quantum Mischief

* * * *

Who Knows? Who Cares?

* * * *

Where Noses Belong

* * * *

Everything is Distraction

* * * *

The Embodiment of Silence

* * * *

The Newborn Mind

* * * *

Forgetting Ignorance

* * * *

The Nightmare of Materialism

* * * *

The Holy Infinity

* * * *

Nothing to Change

* * * *

The Relativity of Fake News

* * * *

Running on Neutral

* * * *

The Death of Perception

* * * *

Mind Yoga

* * * *

Dogmatic Quackery

* * * *

Roller Coaster World

* * * *

Here Now, Own It

* * * *

The Relativity of Perspective

* * * *

Practice Dying

* * * *

Downstream, Downdream

* * * *

A Void in the Abyss

* * * *

The Weight of Time

* * * *

Mission Accomplished

* * * *

Who Would Care, Really?

* * * *

Another Day in the Insane Asylum

* * * *

Good Money After Bad

* * * *

Mutant Quantum

* * * *

3.8 Billion-Year-Old Software

* * * *

Doing the Buddha

* * * *

An Unexpected Journey

* * * *

The Church of Awareness

* * * *

The Taint of Time

* * * *

Holding On to Nothing

* * * *

The No-Other Other

* * * *

The Spontaneity of a Word-Churning Mind

* * * *

In Rational Terms

* * * *

The Diddly-Squat

* * * *

Habits You Cannot Break

* * * *

Accelerating Exponential

* * * *

Unlikely Times

* * * *

What Good Is a Universe Torn to Pieces?

* * * *

Walk Your Talk

* * * *

The Parameters of Desire

* * * *

The Retail Smile

* * * *

The Relativity of Perception

* * * *

Nothing Special

* * * *

What's the Rush?

* * * *

The Gambler's Parable

* * * *

Out of Habit

* * * *

An Imaginary Glacier

* * * *

The Quantum Churn

* * * *

The Great Joke

* * * *

The Demon’s Impulse

* * * *

Thoughts on Everything

* * * *

The Rot Wrought by Affluence

* * * *

The Unassailable Mind

* * * *

Groundhog Living

* * * *

Penslinger

* * * *

The End of All Tomorrows

* * * *

The Spigot of Time

* * * *

Just the Way the Monkey Rolls

* * * *

Pearls For All

* * * *

The Cursory Way

* * * *

Self Absorbed

* * * *

Own the Awareness You Are

* * * *

Alone, Be

* * * *

Chasing Your Face

* * * *

Positive Negation, Negative Negation

* * * *

Mutation and Migration

* * * *

Life: The Most Deadly Dis-Ease

* * * *

Disengage

* * * *

Maybe Tomorrow

* * * *

Doubt Everything

* * * *

The Nonprofit Prophet

* * * *

The Anomaly of Imagination

* * * *

Doubt is the Key to Eternity

* * * *

Being Mind v. Becoming Mind

* * * *

The Infection of Imagination

* * * *

A Lungful of Air

* * * *

Life: A Fatal Disease

* * * *

One With the Muddy Stream

* * * *

Koans Aplenty

* * * *

Death-Defying Odds

* * * *

Quantum Matrix, Quantum Illusion

* * * *

That’s Enough

* * * *

Never Open That Door Again

* * * *

The Flag in the Wind

* * * *

Dare to Stop

* * * *

Polish That Mirror

* * * *

What an Illusion

* * * *

Is That What Really Happened?

* * * *

As Needed

* * * *

Creator and Creation

* * * *

Disengage

* * * *

Together, Alone

* * * *

The Peek-A-Boo of Time

* * * *

You’re Not the First, You Won’t Be the Last

* * * *

We Are All Just Beginners Here

* * * *

Know Where Your Priorities Lie

* * * *

Batting a Thousand

* * * *

Was That Really Necessary?

* * * *

Uncommon Common Sense

* * * *

The Outlier

* * * *

The One Book People

* * * *

No Happy Endings

* * * *

And What Do Those Numbers Mean, Really?

* * * *

Is That What Really Happened?

* * * *

Uncommon Courtesy

* * * *

The Unknown, Known

* * * *

The Moment is All

* * * *

The Great Pointlessness of Absurdity.

* * * *

Forever Again

* * * *

The Art of the Artless

* * * *

To Winners Go All

To Losers, The Rest

* * * *

Dance With Your Self

* * * *

Please Your Self

* * * *

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