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  • I am Man

    I am Man is a poem I wrote in 1985. I was a freshman at Alabama A&M University in Normal, Alabama. I was working towards a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Drafting and Design Technology. It was my second attempt at higher education. My first attempt was in 1977 when I majored in Music…

    A B&W illustration of a man, crouching, head in hand.
  • broken brick

    View Post I’ve been in this weird place all day.I can’t quite put my finger on it.Distant, like a storm, way offshore. I’ve been sitting with it.It woke me up at 3:30,this uncomfortableness. I want to transform it.Transform it?From what? To what?How can I transform itwhen I don’t know what “it” is?What is this “it?”…

  • My attention

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    Realization for today. My attention is a valuable thing. It determines what ideas and images I let into my psyche and experience. I can determine what I’m paying attention to by how I feel. My emotional energy is a pointer to what is going on in my thoughts and beliefs. Am I believing in a…

  • Credential

    This article is a glance at credentialing, especially the RScP credential that is granted by the Centers for Spiritual Living. While rummaging around the web for New Thought stuff, I came across this article called A license to treat. The author does not provide their name so I cannot give them credit. They were a…

  • Innocence and experience

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    William Blake wrote a poem, The Clod and the Pebble, which was included in the collection Innocence and Experience (1794). Poem: The Clod and the Pebble Love seeketh not Itself to please,Nor for itself hath any care;But for another gives its ease,And builds a Heaven in Hells despair.     So sang a little Clod of Clay,    Trodden…

    MidJourney rending of cow hoof encountering a brook pebble
  • We never see what we are afraid of

    I have been reading the works of Phenius Parkhurst Quimby, the father of New Thought. There is a quote from his manuscripts that reads… Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here…