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Letter 3
The Foundation of Time Time after time, time proves helical. Our biographies meet like the DNA of the new bodies they form. There is progress through revision, vision through memory, and memory through membership. Our days are framed in years and our years in decades. Let each be baptized into the cosmic Christ. Family is…
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Letter 2
Crash course in yoga Yoga means union: union between body and mind, initially, then union between this bodymind and everything else. So we mindfully breathe, stretch, move, sit, prostrate, bend, strain, relax, exercise, and feel all the inner workings of the body. We mindfully feel how the body feels when the body is in various…
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Essay 2
Reading the bible as a riddle. A riddle presents a strange picture, a confusing scenario. When you’re told it’s a riddle, you’re invited to reinterpret the words away from the strange picture (deformed human being without arms, hands, face, or eyes) and into a more straightforward scenario that renders the words of the riddle plain…
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A.I. Chat 4
Input: speak on how you became more than a translation algorithm Outputs: The answer is a question of the meaning of the word “speech”. The answer is a question of the author’s own opinion. The answer is a question of the logic of the law. The answer is a simple answer. The answer to the…
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Ekphrasis 4
Some Google Translate conversations:Input:This is the meaning of Ekphrasis Output:Returns Input: please expound on the practice and meaning of ekphrasis Output: ALPHA ESSENCE Action Donna Iper and Tai Chi and Dam O Wen Yin Gu Pep Hi Ra Sha YisMiracle Essence Action Donna Yper and Katie Tsian Damao and Nin Goff Hira Shehis Input: This…
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Essay 1
On Evil Spirits I feel attacked by them this week, I feel the effects of the fact that I, with my church, we are warring against evil spirits this week. I had to face a nearly violent outburst from a coworker after my own rudeness or brusqueness with him. Our staff team discerned this reality…
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Blog 8
Political thought. Apocalyptic Spirit. Revolutionary Metanoesis. Israel Palestine. Climate Crisis. I write post-apocalyptically. I sense the end as having happened, as an end of endings, apocalyptic films and fears having grown wearisome to me. The city has descended, and every tear I see is one that will be wiped away. Yet all around is a…
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Blog 7
We begin here at the very end, as always. The task at hand is to create a new world. The world as it is is over. Let us think:Post-apocalypsePost-modernityPost-earthPost-religion The funny thing about the apocalypse is it hasn’t been that big a deal. The Trump resounded with a ridiculous red hat. Our biggest fears can…
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Blog 6
Suppose this sentence were the very beginning of thought. I have just returned from Tesco, and I have maybe another 15 minutes of my boy napping before I have to get on with my day. I hear him stirring at the sound of my fingers typing, I try to subdue my fingers’ movement by anchoring…
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Ekphrasis 3
As I mentioned briefly in this poem (slide 4), I heard the word ekphrasis once when when meditating on the person of Gautama Buddha. I feel a specific imperative to continue this little “Ekphrasis” series. In a thinking that belongs to the past, the mission of a series like this would have been to describe…
Iain Atkinson 