Mind

Tame Bear on July 21st, 2010

When studied deeply, down at the subatomic level of particle physics, the material world we live in appears to be nothing more substantial than wisps of smoke. There’s hardly anything there! Everything that seems solid and hard to the touch consists mostly of space. The vast open spaces between particles is startling. Even the particles […]

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Saw the new summer movie (sure to be a blockbuster) “Inception” this evening at our local Linway Plaza theater. It was amazing — a movie about dreaming, that leaves you wondering what is real, and what is dream. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that one of the most original ideas in this […]

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Tame Bear on April 25th, 2010

In this week’s episode of “Flash Forward” (ABC), we learn about Dyson Frost’s “Garden of Forking Paths,” an enormous map sketched in chalk detailing multiple forks in his travels through time. Frost is in search of alternate futures, mostly a future where he lives past a particular date, but also a future where the whole […]

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Tame Bear on April 21st, 2010

For several years now I’ve been describing to people why I meditate, though this is the first time I’ve written about it here. Meditation is a rewarding practice; the more I do it, the more I appreciate it and want to continue in the practice. I can list a few of the obvious reasons: It’s […]

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Tame Bear on March 3rd, 2010

Though it’s been on my reading list for a couple years, I am just now getting around to reading My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Really a fascinating story! The brain aneurism she experienced in her mid-thirties disabled the language and analytical functions of her brain, providing […]

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Tame Bear on February 23rd, 2010

Here is something I have been thinking about for many many years (according to my own notebooks, as long ago as the late 1970s), but I credit the writer, artist and inventor Doug Yerchey with publishing the idea in a 2002 article on the World Mysteries web site. He begins by discussing the peculiar duality […]

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Tame Bear on February 11th, 2010

Can you read the following paragraph? “I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer […]

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Tame Bear on January 24th, 2010

Notice — are you happy? If not, are you working towards becoming happy? If you are happy, have you examined the how and the why of it? On this subject, The Bear concludes: The purpose of life is to be happy. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; let’s not make it any more complicated […]

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Be.

Tame Bear on January 19th, 2010

Be. Be still. Be still and know. Be still and know that I am. Be still and know that I am God. In the stillness, in the moment-by-moment of HERE and NOW, in the only place and time that ever really exists, this instant of being that is always just as it is, without memory […]

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