When the Girl from Ipanema walks by, all the beach boys sigh. Just like the gravitational fields, she creates a distortion in the noosphere. As the psychic waves emanate, they affect the voyeurs in various ways. Some daydream of a day with her, some of a night, a few of a lifetime. Do they owe her a Brazilian Real for the sweet 15 minute daydream she gives them? Continue reading →

Diotima, in the Symposium, describes the ladder of ascent to the knowledge of the eternal idea of Beauty. Sometimes in order to know where you are, it is necessary to know where you were. Since the ideas are eternal, prophecy is outside of time. Prophecy therefore can be a revelation of the past as well as of the future. To forget the past is to have no future.
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Forgetting is analogous to death so remembering is life giving. Some memories arise spontaneously. Others take some effort. One should not stop at intellectual memory. It may take more effort to expand that memory to deeper levels. This essay has been some time in planning. The events mean nothing to you, but each time I’ve relived them, there is more intensity. Humor may be used to hide it. Nevertheless, over time, a common thread has been revealing itself to me. Continue reading →