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The Smiths of the Fields
With familysearch.org it is easy to look at the geo locations of my ancestors. The Smiths were very colonial American as most of the...
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Oct 14, 20171 min read
The Gothic M
When the gothic M appeared in our coffee cup there was speculation that it either stood for Michailidis or Mom? The cosmic M is also...
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Oct 14, 20171 min read
Thedotha Saunders Heath
If you connect to familysearch.org a free website of the mormons you can find an easy to use family tree. I find great great grandma...
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Oct 14, 20171 min read
Bayazid Bastami
When Bayazid died, he was over seventy years old. Before he died, someone asked him his age. He said: "I am four years old. For seventy...
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Oct 14, 20171 min read
Paradiso 11
Paradiso 11 begins with an apostrophe to the senseless cares of mortals from which Dante has now been released. In the apostrophe Dante...
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Oct 14, 20171 min read
The Everlasting Pearl
In Canto 2 of the Paradiso, Dante comes to the "Pearl" much like Swami Muktananda comes to the blue pearl Into itself, the everlasting...
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Sep 24, 20171 min read
A Matter of Etiquette
Removing the shoe from the temple By Hafez Once someone asked me, "Why do saints seek divine annihilation And are often humble And like...
davidsmith208
Sep 23, 20172 min read
Paradiso
I enjoyed the first canto of Paradise in Dante's Divine Comedy. I reached the Golden Mean of being done. I have the 33 Cantos of the...
davidsmith208
Sep 23, 20172 min read
Matilda
Purgatorio 28 In Canto 28 Dante finally comes to a sort of prefall garden if Eden and is now on his own. You have to wonder - if you...
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Sep 15, 20171 min read
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Sep 12, 20171 min read
Corybantic Frenzy of Philo
when we contemplate the Logos, ... we are taken beyond the reach of discursive reason to an intuitive apprehension which is "higher than...
davidsmith208
Sep 9, 20171 min read
Hafez -the late bloomer
Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (Persian: خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (حافظ Ḥāfeẓ 'the...
davidsmith208
Sep 9, 20171 min read
Our "virtual reality"
Was long ago described by Dante Dante has in some fashion anticipated our expression “virtual reality” in his description of the...
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Sep 9, 20171 min read
Dolce Stil Novo
The "sweet new style" dolce stil novo, a school of poetry Dante invents and baptizes in Purgatorio 24.57. E io a lui: “I’ mi son un che,...
davidsmith208
Sep 8, 20171 min read
Time for Time
In Canto 23, Dante sees his youthful friend whom he used to exchange mutually insulting sonnets known as the “tenzone". Sounds something...
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Sep 7, 20171 min read
If Hal takes over
If computers take over it is not certain how they will in the end react to humans. One theory is they might be threatened by humans and...
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Sep 7, 20171 min read
My James Bond Dream
The mad scientist in my dream had found a solution for fundamental islamic terrorism. I dreamed I went to the headquarters of a world...
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Sep 6, 20171 min read
Baba Jaimal Singh
Faught in the second Anglo Afghan war 1880
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Sep 5, 20171 min read
Namaste
When I hear the Greek words: να είμαδτε I hear the hindi Namaste नमस्ते Sort of means Hello and I recognize the God in you also While...
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Sep 5, 20171 min read
When acorns were delicious
In canto 21 & 22 of Purgatorio of Dante, refers to the golden age of classical antiquity as a time when men found the taste of acorns...
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Sep 3, 20171 min read
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