I post it every year, Hunter S. Thompson using an ESPN column to write this one week after 9/11

In memoriam, Joanna Macy (May 2, 1929 - July 19, 2025) For more than half a century, scholar, Buddhist, ecologist, and “awake activist” Joanna Macy, PhD, worked tirelessly for personal, social, and planetary transformation. tricycle.org/article/rememb…

For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity. All go to one place, all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again. ~Ecclesiastes 3

"The Nothingness That Was Prior to the Universe." --Robert Fludd, 1617, Utriusque cosmi.

My office needs more religious iconography.

"The study of mystical experiences and Latour’s ontological turn: toward a participatory approach" by Andre van der Braak researchgate.net/publication/39…

Applied Mysticism: Studies of Meditation and Psychedelics in Secular Contexts by Richard H. Jones sunypress.edu/Books/A/Applie…

Kurt Vonnegut was once asked why he wrote books when presidents and senators don’t read; he replied, “You catch people before they become generals and presidents and so forth and poison their minds with humanity … to encourage them to make a better world.”

I spoke at Yale. I pointed out a few things. 1. There is a “time before time” in the Buddhist cosmogenesis. Between the awakening of Brahma (the first being to appear after the reemergence of the world) and the rise of the Sun out of the sea, there is technically a time

Adorno states that since humanity as a self-conscious subject does not exist, progress doesn't exist either. We can not "advance" or "progress" in any way because there is nothing to advance. Humanity and progress would have to be invented together.

From Longchenpa's death poem, Immaculate Radiance: "Now it is time to go, like a traveller upon the way. The delight I have in death is far, far greater than The delight of traders who find their fortune at sea, Or the lords of devas who prove victorious in battle, Or adepts who