Michael Main
siren song
He dreamed of that country with which he had been long acquainted, now exiled . . . In the dream, the dead of that place fearsomely...
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Michael Main
- Jan 17, 2023
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on nietzsche’s ‘walking out’
Total solitude casts a gigantic shadow against the wall of inner self - It is here the most inward of all observers appears to...
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Michael Main
- Jan 12, 2023
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of taproots and slender knives
:: organic consciousness (i.e. astute squirrel)— an illuminated, self-startled, shattered mirror attempting to nudge its inexplicable...
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Michael Main
- Jan 9, 2023
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relinquishing the cloak
Increasingly aware that had I somehow, inexplicably, come-to-persist in more than one given time . . . I experienced all the constituents...
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Michael Main
- Jan 5, 2023
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sculling inconsonant rivers . . .
The relationship with our ‘personal’ past is fraught with complexity. Vast and shifting responses to one’s past are a natural given- and...
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Michael Main
- Jan 3, 2023
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cogito and social simulation
We spend most of our conscious lives running simulations of others’ presumed thought streams. We do so in a lifelong, compulsive effort...
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Michael Main
- Dec 30, 2022
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tears of embodiment
That spirit should so willfully adhere to flesh is the cause of every tear that is shed, every wall erected, and every outpost racked...
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Michael Main
- Dec 30, 2022
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past ~ lives
To have lived long enough to experience that one can sustain the turning of one’s eyes to sights that compel one to ache for whole, lost...
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Michael Main
- Dec 30, 2022
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dying ://: differing
What difference does it make, if you are going to die? Whose difference? : is ours to map this moment at which one is freed from begging...
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Michael Main
- Dec 29, 2022
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united states of 'recovery'
To withdraw ourselves from the unnatural miracles humanity has created . . . To withdraw ourselves from the unnatural miracles humanity...
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Michael Main
- Dec 29, 2022
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indwelling
Photo Credit: Unsplash Dwell deeply on each and every thought and perception- for in the vast accumulations of the hour in which you...
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Michael Main
- Dec 28, 2022
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roadwork
Photo Credit: Unsplash The ‘base organicity’ of who I have traveled far ‘to be’ is composed of all places I ‘have been’ - the vast corn...
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Michael Main
- Dec 26, 2022
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busted !
:: M E D I T A T I O N ~ Photograph Copyright 2016-2023 by Julia Marie Stolvoort M E D I T A T I O N ? ~ no, not until a single,...
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Michael Main
- Jul 17, 2022
- 2 min
Philosophy | Not Belief
All while looking outward toward the improbable infinite . . . When first coming to ‘belief’, one cannot conceive that one shall ever...
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Michael Main
- Feb 13, 2016
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Paths of Spirit: On the Relationship of Narrative to Journey
On the path of spirit: We begin early in life by reading the stories of those we adopt as ones we come to intuit to be fellow travelers :...
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Michael Main
- Feb 13, 2016
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T. S. Eliot on Human Spiritual Struggle
"It is in fact in moments of moral and spiritual struggle depending upon spiritual sanctions…that men and women come nearest to being...
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Michael Main
- Feb 13, 2016
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Meditation Praxis: Of Foreground & Background Consciousness and the Falling Through
It is not simply where the eye falls, but how one's eyesight falls. Is one's vision "falling" open, or "falling" closed. Observe the...
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