Category Archives: Fables, myths & parables
Shells and pearls
This is a series of rewritten, streamlined posts on the theme of shells and pearls, which I’m considering incorporating into my pamphlet. I’ll link to the originals. If you have time to compare, let me know if you think anything was lost in … Continue reading
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Memories of oblivion
I’ve been asked to write a 500 word spiritual autobiographical essay, and this has me thinking about my experiences with Vipassana meditation. I only have room for a line or two on meditation in the essay, so I’m venting my verbosity into … Continue reading
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Dreams
I had unusually vivid dreams last night. I saw two identical bristling wolves drowning two identical boys in a crystal-clear winding river. Then I was trapped under mounds of trash beneath a sprawling trailer park, and I was trying to … Continue reading
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The Spoiler
I am about to read a story about a man of profound faith who voluntarily sacrifices his beliefs to understand some inconceivable truth his child urgently needs to share with him. He is a man whose faith and beliefs are … Continue reading
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Epistemological hiker
An epistemological hiker became disillusioned with his backpack. “If I can’t fit the wilderness in this backpack what good is it?”
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Life on the complex plane
The image of the Mandelbrot set is a map — a 3rd person perspective survey — of Julia sets. But each image of the Julia Set is a 1st person perspective on the same space as that described by the … Continue reading
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Another origin myth
What seemed to be the solid earth was surveyed, and it was discovered to be an island, and not a very large one. It was in fact a very tiny island. It bobbed and swayed and creaked. The thin planks … Continue reading
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