Spirituality
… to wear a profession of the generic state religion on my ass? As a person of faith, I am happy to live in a country that at least pays some lip service to the freedom every citizen has to express their faith — or not. Here in Indiana we’re given a choice of automobile […]
I think that’s just a beautiful thing to share, I love you.
God looks out upon the world from all the eyes of all the creatures therein. To see as God sees, regard every creature as the body of God. ~Tame Bear Our dear cat Duncan died several months ago, on May 26, 2011. His ashes still sit on the side table in the living room, waiting to be buried, […]
Continue reading about Duncan – Reflections on Consciousness
R.I.P. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011 Read Steve Jobs – A biography by Walter Isaacson
The fireworks that led up to the burning of the Man at this year’s Burning Man festival were simply beyond belief. Incendiary explosions and massive fireballs accompanied an ongoing finale. They sure don’t do fireworks like this back home in Goshen, Indiana! These are keyframes from video I shot during the Saturday night burn. They’re […]
In August of 2011, 50,000 people converged on the Black Rock Desert in Nevada for a radically self-reliant community experience like no other… “Burning Man – Rites of Passage.” While “The Man” held the center of attention, it was in the Temple of Transition where the citizens of Black Rock City opened their minds and […]
All the world is exactly and entirely as we have imagined it to be. That sounds so ordinary, but it is not. The “we” I speak of is everybody, all of us together, who are alive and imagining at this moment. If you read the Tame Bear Weblog regularly, you’ll recognize the underlying theme of […]
If we tend to think things are going from bad to worse, this video is clearly the antidote. Hans Rosling’s global health video — “200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes” — plots lifespan on the vertical axis, and income/wealth on the horizontal axis, animating data in realspace.
“The world around you is the world inside you. They are not two things. You (in there) are the world (out here).” ~ Tame Bear Seeing the ultimate indivisibility of all things is a key to understanding nonduality. The world is ONE, not TWO. In our minds, we slice up the world in a trillion different ways […]
