Greetings and may we all remember what Tiny Tim prayed for at the end of the Christmas Carol, "A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, every one!" On this Yuletide Day, we are going to discuss the importance of applying wisdom when you … Continue reading Reality Series: Be Wise in Your Questions
Author: Baron Jean-Michel
Who am I? A physician, scientist, inventor, philosopher, poet, sculpture, friend, lover, partner, father, adventurer. All of these and more. Life is a wonderful sojourn in a miraculous, universal theatre with comedy and tragedy, where the unexpected is in all ways just ahead. A play where each can choose to be an active, conscious participant or simply a sleeping bit player. A play where perhaps one can attain permanence and return again and again to the Great Play joined with his or her matched half, or die like a dirty dog in the streets of Cairo. A play where an awakened couple can bring relief to the less enlightened players by decreasing unnecessary suffering. A play which delights in finding persons with magnetic centers and a thirst for life eternal. A play which has been and will remain center-stage for a very long time.
Reality Series: Self and Not-Self v. Self or No Self
Merry Christmas Eve, everyone. This morning it crossed my mind that I need to clarify something for you. Often, readers presume that an author creates with a specific, concrete plan and distant goal. Such concrete plans and goals commonly underlie papers, theses, and books. But, … Continue reading Reality Series: Self and Not-Self v. Self or No Self
Reality Series: The Virtual Self (4)
After reading the existing set of blogs, I feel it prudent to discuss our understanding of the Buddha’s teachings upon the contentious matter of ‘self’ and ‘not-self.’ To appreciate the original teachings of the Buddha, one must consult the earliest doctrinal texts of Theravadins, the … Continue reading Reality Series: The Virtual Self (4)
Reality Series: The Virtual Self (3)
Yesterday, we introduced a rational neurophysiological explanation for the development of the ‘concept of self.’ Clearly, the development of our ‘individualized feelings of selfness’ is dependent upon psychoneurologic ontogeny; the Institute recognizes that psychobiological factors are insufficient to fully explain the ‘concept of self.’ The … Continue reading Reality Series: The Virtual Self (3)
A Teaching Tale for the Children
10/24/08 Dr. Michael Jon Kell© THE YOUNG GIRL AND HER PRINCE Once upon a time, the sweetest of young girls went walking in the dark woods. She was sweeter than bee’s honey and as tender as mother’s love. Her heart reached all the way to … Continue reading A Teaching Tale for the Children
Reality Series: The Virtual Self (2)
Merry Christmas (substitute your favorite holiday) everyone. It is my sincere wish that each make measurable progress toward finalizing the core for a permanent soul. Today, we continue our exploration of that part of our psychofugal complex (our mental symphony, mindbrain or psychocerebri ) giving … Continue reading Reality Series: The Virtual Self (2)
Reality Series: The Virtual Self (1)
In yesterday’s blog, I discussed how the CNS, given sufficient sensory, somatic, and visceral neural input, generate two separate, mental images, or imagines (sing. imago). When I use the word ‘mental’ I am not referring solely to the traditional operation of the neuronal circuitry of … Continue reading Reality Series: The Virtual Self (1)
Reality Series: Type I-somatic
Today, I decided to revisit the series of blogs discussing the true nature of our mental realities. If you have not as yet had an opportunity to study the psychological model developed at the Institute, now is such time. To review, during wakefulness, sensory data … Continue reading Reality Series: Type I-somatic
Poems of the Heart (4)
09/19/08 Dr. Michael Jon Kell© MY DEAREST LOVE My dearest of the dear, this is our future. The appointed time has returned this day for Winter Sun to bid fond farewell to our snow-shrouded city of grand hopes. Winter Sun’s last luminous kiss, a kiss … Continue reading Poems of the Heart (4)
Poems of the Hearth (3)
21 Feb 2014 Dr. Michael Jon Kell© DIAMOND AND SUN The Honey spread, in rhyme sweet and prose transcendental, nurtured and immortalized by poets of old, is as the ever-radiant, multi-hued sparkling of diamond, fed by ever-giving sun on a blue cloudless morn, that feeling … Continue reading Poems of the Hearth (3)