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Beneath all words, symbols and images you have learned to produce lay sounds and marks that you create using your voice and your hands, the latter (your hands) being aided by a marking tool applied to a smooth surface. As a wordsmith you have the power to use your wordsmithing...

We humans use our words to describe and explain everything. If words do not work then we use symbols and if symbols don't work we draw images (pictures) of what we are trying to describe or explain. (For convenience, hereafter, I will refer to words, symbols and images collectively as...

Somewhere along the way we humans learned how to place words on what they were experiencing. Thereafter, we humans used our words to point to are experiences. And, we created languages using these words. The experiences to which these words and languages point are always happening. However, somewhere along the...

In the television series, 1883, Elsa Duncan experiences the moment when all of her memories and all of her dreams collapse into what is real for her.  She is experiencing her life in the present moment with the Awareness that she has only a few more moments of life before...

In the television series “The Old Man”, there is a conversation in Episode 3 of Season 1 in which it is stated: “A name is just a name. It’s who the person is that matters.” Indeed, my name is just a name as is your name.  It’s who I am...

Stand before a blank white canvas positioned on an easel with a marking tool in hand. Better yet, imagine that you are in an art gallery standing before a picture frame that contains only a white canvas (its title being "Mystery") and that you have a sketch book containing only...

When you choose an action from a menu of all possible actions and then rely upon that choice to choose a second action, you are creating a bias (an historical bias) favoring the first action. Then when you choose a third action based upon the second action, you are deepening...

I awake and think I hear the sound of running water. However, my thinking "sound of running water" is only a thought that emerges in my mind informed by these four words: "sound" "of" "running" "water". Beneath this thinking "sound of running water" lies an experience; that being my sensing...

As soon as a healthy baby is born and takes its first breath, it begins moving, interacting with its surroundings. It moves its arms and legs and it makes sounds. It exhibits the characteristics of being present---of being a presence that is alive---as it is interacting with those other presences...