Contemplation
Reasonable Incausality
A Poem
James M. Corrigan, Ph.D.
There Is A Way Of Seeing The World Different. I Write About Responsive Naturing, And Inner Spontaneous Sound Meditation — Two Facets Of One Objective: Opening A New Path Forward Towards Eco-Survival.
This Is A Book And Its Publication On Medium Is An Experiment
So begins the description of my publication titled “Tranquillity’s Secret.” The biggest reasons for launching a book on Medium are: availability, readers, and feedback.
Authentic Wholeness Is Uncovered, Not Created
Separation Is An Illusion, But Our Shared Story About How Things Are, Is Built Upon That Illusion. To Deny It Is To Be An Apostate Separation is an illusion, but our shared story about how things are, is built upon that illusion. To deny it is to be an apostate — beyond the pale of accepted rationa
A Greater Self Is A Greater Error
We Do Not Overcome The Error Of Believing In A Separate Self By Positing A Greater Self The emptiness that Buddhism speaks of is directed to the error of believing in separate existence inherent in self, and that is not overcome by raising the error to a higher level.
The Practice Of Science Assumes Many Articles On Faith
Each Step Towards Knowledge May Bring Greater Accuracy, But Science Also Advances By Going Back & Reexamining Things Once Assumed To Be… Perfect science would begin with no assumptions; but that isn’t what we have.
Unsaying
A First Mover Is Not Needed
In Fact, It Is A Pretty Silly Idea That There Can Be Anything That Is Not In Motion
Contemplation
Within The Heart Of All That Is Lies Unexplainable Creative Spontaneity
Scientists Are Finding Emptiness In Everything That Is Supposed To Be Solid And Philosophers Have Never Been Able To Define What "Matter" Is
Every Artist Knows The Truth
Some Like To Think In Stepwise Refinement — Of Ideas, Or Knowledge, Or Creativity, But They Never Can Say What Goes On Between The Steps There is a primordial spontaneously creative responsiveness to reality that flows through every great artist.
Nonduality Has Nothing To Do With A Self
I acknowledge and agree with the sentiment that seems to have motivated your essay, but there are some inaccuracies in it that I think…
Unsaying
The Irrefutable Fact of Now
This “Now” That We Talk Of Is The Edge Of Eternity, Which Is Always Present, And In Which All Things That Happen Become Present
Commonplace Malevolence
Has Our Malevolence Towards One Another Grown To Become So Systemic, And Pathologic, That It Is Now Just A Given In Our Lives? Has our malevolence towards one another grown to become so systemic, and pathologic, that it is now just a given in our lives?
Unsaying
In the Servitude of Science
Constructive Science Shifts The Scale Of Studied Action Beyond Our Ability To Experience Directly, Understand, Or To Use Wisely What We Know