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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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Forget The Olympics... Just Be A Parent!!

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

I think it's odd that we so glorify athletes that we see as reaching the pinnacle of human achievement when going unnoticed is the damn-hardest task anyone could ever hope to .... ever have. Truth... More »

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Projectile Vomiting In The Integral Commons

Posted on Jun 20th, 2006 by David Jon : A Lamp Unto Oneself David Jon

I think it is hilarious how you can use a single source to argue both sides of well... an argument. In the comments to the previous post of 6/19 (Eat Lead Wyatt!!) Mu suggested that... More »

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Mayday 5: The Mask of Freedom Hides A Slave

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

For as much talk as there is of Freedom there is also concern about what Freedom might mean. After all, if we are totally free then we are free to do anything, right? We are... More »

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April's Artistic Challenge, Day 29: To Open Or To Close?

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

Can we be ravished by the Spirit of God? Can we be undone---stripped lovingly, taken fiercely--by an Emptiness that seeks to consume all that is not essential relative to the life we think we are... More »

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April's Artistic Challenge, Day 27: Art As Integrative Therapia

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

Wasn't it Carl Gustav Jung who first insinuated that the human psyche contained all possibilities; that we, as psychological beings, were mother and father, hero and goat, puer and senex , betrayer and betrayed? There... More »

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