Site Update Log

Site Update Log

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Update Description
 
PSI Group section Updated at least bimonthly with the latest meeting topics.
Optional RSS feed added 01/2009, to keep you informed of meeting topics and schedule updates.
 
Insightful Quotes Updated when homepage "Quote of the Month" is replaced.
07/2010
Favorite Photos Added an 11th page of favorite photos taken by the website author and others.
06/2010
Who Are You Trying to Please? "In the background ... through all the changing circumstances of life, a program was running...."
06/2010
Favorite Photos Added a 10th page of favorite photos taken by the website author and others.
05/2010
Poetry Favorites Added to the page of favorite poems.
05/2010
Favorite Photos Added a 9th page of favorite photos taken by the website author and others.
04/2010
Blindsight & Group Efforts A group of people coming together forms a temporary organism. An organism has a purpose or objective, which can be explicit or adventitious.
04/2010
Excerpts from The Prophet Added a page of excerpts from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran to the Poetry Favorites section.
03/2010
Favorite Photos Added an 8th page of favorite photos taken by the website author and others.
03/2010
Looking & Questioning Is my life-experience a classroom? If so, what's the lesson it's trying to show me?
03/2010
Looking All the Way Through "Are you in harmony with truth or not? Here you cannot be mistaken; investigate all the way through."
02/2010
Journal Tending (Wm. Samuel) A technique to "consciously become the very point where the Ineffable becomes tangible in the world...."
02/2010
TAT Foundation Press Added info about the latest book from TAT publications, Solid Ground of Being.
02/2010
Poetry Favorites Added a page of favorite poems, including an essay on The Use and Misuse of Poetry, a link to An Adventure into Poetry by Richard Rose, and The Hound of Heaven, by Francis Thompson.
01/2010
Favorite Video Clips Added links to clips from a documentary about a remarkable man in South Carolina.
01/2010
TAT Foundation Press Added info about the latest books from TAT publications, The Celibate Seeker and The Perennial Way.
12/2009
Favorite Video Clips Added links to two clips from William Samuel's 1993 weekend of inspiring talks in Georgia, filmed by PBS.
12/2009
Liquidity Trap of Self-Ignorance What can you do to end a recession or depression affecting the going-within desire?
10/2009
Favorite Photos Added a 7th page of favorite photos taken by the author and others.
09/2009
Deliberate Practice Everyone's looking for the way. The individual is like a heat-seeking missile, programmed to hit its target, but....
07/2009
Favorite Sites Added links to the Hvem er jeg? site of a Danish friend – and to the English translation (Who am I?) of it.
07/2009
Aphorisms on Consciousness-Without-an-Object These aphorisms flowed out of Franklin Merrell-Wolff's Self-Recognition and lead back to the edge of it step by step.
07/2009
Favorite Photos Added a 6th page of favorite photos taken by the author and others.
06/2009
Favorite Video Clips Three clips on birth, life, and death.
05/2009
Something for Nothing An uncomfortable review by Bob Fergeson, in the June 2009 TAT Forum, of what leads to seeker stasis.
04/2009
Magnetoresistance A phenomenon where resistance decreases by an unusual amount in the presence of a magnetic field ... and how this applies to the search for the authentic self.
03/2009
Favorite Video Clips Terrific video trailer for Beyond Mind, Beyond Death book.
03/2009
Sources & Links Beyond Mind, Beyond Death anthology now available at Amazon.com.
01/2009
Douglas Harding video clip In a 2001 interview by Richard Lang, Douglas describes "what's moving" when you walk or ride in a vehicle.
01/2009
Sangsara and Nirvana An inspiring "benefits statement" in this pair of Franklin Merrell-Wolff's incredibly beautiful poems.
01/2009
Favorite Photos Added a 5th page of favorite photos taken by the author and others.
01/2009
Catherine Harding podcast In the tradition of "On Having No Head": podcast from Urban Guru Cafe (in the Article & Excerpts section)
12/2008
Mirror Therapy There's a treatment for phantom limb pain that's simple and surprisingly effective. Can a similar technique dispel existential pain?
11/2008
Favorite Video Clips A video trailer introducing Images of Essence from the TAT Foundation Press.
10/2008
Micromanaged Added an essay, "The Micromanaged Life?"
10/2008
8x8 Path Added the matrix of Douglas Harding's "8x8-fold Plebian Path"
10/2008
Compassion Added an essay on "Compassion & the Revelation of Negatives"
10/2008
Favorite Video Clips British author, film producer, and lecturer Peter Russell speaking on the mystery of consciousness.
09/2008
Inspiration What is inspiration, and where does it come from?
09/2008
Conquest of Illusion Added a section on Cézanne from Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer.
09/2008
Favorite Photos Added a 3rd page of favorite photos taken by the author and others.
08/2008
Common-Sense Meditation Experiment Updated the Meditation page with the results of a new meditation experiment.
07/2008
Favorite Video Clips A final farewell: WSJ.com interview with Randy Pausch published on the day of his death.
07/2008
Favorite Video Clips What do Vincent van Gogh, Don McLean and Roberta Flack have in common?
07/2008
Intuition and the Search for Authenticity What is intuition ... and how does it apply specifically to the seeker of a true state of being?
07/2008
Favorite Video Clips Added clips from "A Night to Remember," "Titanic," and Jet Li's "Fearless"
07/2008
Developing Clarity of Mind What is it that prevents most humans from seeing the truth of what they are as they're experiencing the pangs of separation and plunging to their demise?
06/2008
Favorite Video Clips Randy Pausch update: CMU commencement address 5/19/08, "Find your passion."
06/2008
Your Strategy Becoming conscious of the strategy that's working to get what you want out of life.
06/2008
Favorite Video Clips Nostalgic clips on the theme of going home: Return of the Bison; Gods and Generals; Rabbit-Proof Fence.
05/2008
Common-Sense Meditation Rest and relaxation are necessary ingredients for a healthy life, but to be a process of self-inquiry, meditation needs to be confrontational not restful. It also needs to be observational.
05/2008
Paean to Group Work Thoughts on the value of group work in imaginative verse form.
04/2008
Getting to Know Your Own Mind Why did it take the Buddha so long to vacuum his sofa?
04/2008
Favorite Video Clips Added clips of Hindu and Sufi music designed for devotional meditation.
03/2008
Why Do Seekers of Truth Fail? Added a link to an essay by the author published in the April 2008 TAT Forum ezine.
03/2008
Favorite Photos Added a section of favorite photos taken by the author and others.
03/2008
Favorite Video Clips Added a great funny scene from the Bollywood movie Paheli.
02/2008
Favorite Video Clips Added three clips with examples of effective working together.
02/2008
Discovering Your Identify Added an essay on the Perennial Philosophy.
02/2008
Favorite Video Clips Added two humorous clips, and the hilarious "Guru Poem" by John Wren-Lewis.
01/2008
Favorite Video Clips Added Jay Unger playing and commenting on writing the haunting "Ashokan Farewell."
01/2008
Thinking About Thinking Added an article relating errors in medical diagnosis to self-inquiry.
12/2007
Favorite Videos Added the new "Closer than Close" film trailer to the other two clips from this film.
11/2007
The Business of Seeking Added a link to an essay by Shawn Nevins relating the leap From Good to Great.
11/2007
Plain Speaking Updated Los Niños Héroes article with bio data on Harry Truman.
11/2007
A Self-Effacing Man "When he entered Westminster Abbey, unannounced ... the entire congregation arose."
10/2007
Favorite Video Clips Added "O Shenandoah" and "Our Town" clips.
10/2007
Favorite Video Clips Added "It's Been a Long Time Coming" folksong clips.
10/2007
Conquest of Illusion Added an excerpt on headless seeing from Douglas Harding's On Having No Head.
09/2007
Favorite Video Clips Added clips from dying Prof. Randy Pausch's compelling final talk.
09/2007
Look at Awareness Added an essay on knowing the self.
09/2007
Favorite Video Clips Added Andrea Bocelli clips.
08/2007
Depression Added an essay referencing the amazing lifestory of Mike May.
08/2007
Science as a Spiritual Practice Added an excerpt from a presentation on "The Simplicity of Being."
08/2007
Author's Favorites Added a page to consolidate links to related pages.
07/2007
Site Update Log Created a page for visitors to track site changes.
07/2007
True Love Added an essay about rapport and never-ending love.
07/2007
Song Dynasty Ch'an Revival Added a page of Ch'an Masters from this later era to the earlier Tang Dynasty masters.
07/2007
Favorite Video Clips Added Flatland the Film clips
05/2007
Bill Samuel "Induction" Added the "Induction Talk" excerpt from William Samuel's The Child Within Us Lives!
05/2007
About the Author Updated with two photos from hiking in the Canyonlands area of southern Utah.
03/2007
Conquest of Illusion Added synopsis of Rupert Sheldrake talk on recent evidence for "Minds Beyond Brains."
03/2007
Greatest Teachers / Ongoing Added a page on the "Ongoing Work" of Merrell-Wolff, Harding and Rose students.
01/2007
Path in Pictures Added a pictorial "essay" on progress toward self-realization.
12/2006
William Samuel page Added a page on this hitherto unknown to me teacher -- a warrior and gentleman.
10/2006
Burning the Boats Added an essay on the man who transformed Kimberly-Clark.
10/2006
To Fight You Need an Enemy Added an essay about fighting to survive.
10/2006
The Stockdale Paradox Added an essay about surviving in North Vietnamese prisoner camps.

                     
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