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Pointed-Pithy Transmission #1

Posted on Jun 10th, 2007 by David Jon : A Lamp Unto Oneself David Jon

Wordless transmissions. Here's the Zen. This is it. No requirement for extended discourses in multiple syntaxes. Lord knows I am so over that. 1,200 pages of Integral. 40 pages of definitions and othger assorted explanations of... More »

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Gathering Around Our Commodities

Posted on Dec 29th, 2006 by David Jon : A Lamp Unto Oneself David Jon

In the summertime here in Michigan, as elsewhere, you can often hear the approaching roar of man and machine. I often hear this roar pour down through the valley as if Odin himself were coming. But... More »

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What & Where: Notes On The Seeker's Mentality

Posted on Dec 5th, 2006 by David Jon : A Lamp Unto Oneself David Jon

I never personally considered that so much could rest behing the visage of a question. Peel back the surface of a question, feel into that question, sense its nature, and you really can discern so much... More »

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This Matter Of Maps

Posted on Dec 3rd, 2006 by David Jon : A Lamp Unto Oneself David Jon

(For pretext look here .... and then here ....) Have you heard that the 'map is not the territory ,' that the 'menu is not the meal ?' The finger pointing to the moon is... More »

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A Map For The Lost Among Us?

Posted on Nov 27th, 2006 by David Jon : A Lamp Unto Oneself David Jon

(continued from here ....) Are our lives torn apart? Are they in need of some remedial form of relatedness; such as where we connect body to mind and mind to soul and soul to spirit? Has life---er,... More »

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We Have Integral Cognition People

Posted on Nov 22nd, 2006 by David Jon : A Lamp Unto Oneself David Jon

I am going to take a bit of a turn here and refrain from speaking about the family and child-rearing issues I have in the previous few entries collected here on this blog. I want to... More »

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2,500 Years Of Spirituality For The Self-Obsessed

Posted on Oct 23rd, 2006 by David Jon : A Lamp Unto Oneself David Jon

Is it the once-upon-a-time emphasis on avoding sexuality--as if that were indicative of a greater spiritual truth? Is it the dismissal of the householder as vital, and the glorification of the mystic, the prophet, the... More »

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The Manliest Thing I Did Was To Leave The Man's Meeting

Posted on Aug 31st, 2006 by David Jon : A Lamp Unto Oneself David Jon

Will you hold my hand while I talk about my feelings? Please.... pretty please. Will you tell me it's ok to be a 'man?' Please... pretty please. Well, the pretentiousness of some select Zaadzsters was... More »

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Group Dynamics & The Organizational Shaman

Posted on Jun 28th, 2006 by David Jon : A Lamp Unto Oneself David Jon

Let me ask you a question: Do you think that the 'principles' of a group--or a collective, if you prefer that term--somehow alter the intrinsic dynamics that seem to coalesce and form in any and... More »

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The Kosmic Weight Of Carrying Way Too Many Projections

Posted on Jun 23rd, 2006 by David Jon : A Lamp Unto Oneself David Jon

It's not just Ken Wilber. The same could be said to apply to each and everyone of us to greater and lesser degrees. We carry projections around, like so many crosses we are burdened to... More »

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