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