by orchaeus | Oct 8, 2022 | Status Update
William Shatner on his visit to space and his unexpected discoveries about his feelings and expectations. “I looked down and I could see the hole that our spaceship had punched in the thin, blue-tinged layer of oxygen around Earth. It was as if there was a wake...
by orchaeus | Oct 8, 2022 | Status Update
I was watching a piece of fluff floating down from the sky in the bright afternoon sun. The shadow was on the ground, far away, but as the fluff floated down, it eventually met the shadow on the cement. And I was thinking about the ideas presented in Owen...
by orchaeus | Oct 6, 2022 | Status Update
The 0th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Declare. Declarations presume both explicit local authority and, in general, completeness. Our intelligences collapse when presented with explicit or complete models of identity, meaning, value or relation. One can imagine an...
by orchaeus | Oct 6, 2022 | Status Update
“The ‘they’ in this quote, and much of our common speech and thought that frames situations in this way, is a category error which has become endemic. It’s not a they (and there is no ‘we’ of this form either). ‘They’...
by orchaeus | Oct 4, 2022 | Status Update
Our troubles and fear, our anger, our emotions… urges and habits… these are the signals that call us toward spiritual pursuits and development. It turns out that upon careful reflection, spirituality is the process of deeply re-entering our actual...
by orchaeus | Sep 27, 2022 | Status Update
That deeply disturbing feeling you have when you walk past someone who is walking a 140 pound pitbull and you realize that if they drop the leash or it breaks, you will probably be torn to shreds by a ‘domesticated’ predator you could not possibly defend...
