Morning. The house is ready to be cleaned.
Jill should arrive shortly. You have a list of errands for the day. The first
is dropping Carol off at Hoxworth to donate blood, buy and send a b-card to Kim
for tomorrow, grocery, etc. Craig and Alta arrive tomorrow between one and two.
Most everything is packed and ready to go for Wednesday. The first leg of the
trip is near St. Louis and it is only about six hours, about the time it takes
to drive to Chicago so the plan is to wait awhile stop for brunch in
Westchester, probably at First Watch, then take a leisurely drive to
Indianapolis and points west. You are going to let Craig take the lead because
you are generally a more aggressive (faster) driver. You’ll follow his pace. –
Amorella
1019 hours. Blue sky this morning
so it will probably be hot. I will wait for Carol at McDonalds and she can give
me a call when completed. We need to have a good lunch to celebrate her blood
work; this is a tradition.
You have been waiting for Carol for almost
an hour. She called a few minutes ago and said it will be another hour. You
have been checking email and reading Quora online, and you are at Panera on
Mason-Montgomery Road because it is closer to Hoxworth than McDonalds is. –
Carol just called and is ready to be picked up. Later, dude. – Amorella
You picked out two cards for Kim while Carol
is still at Kroger’s. Fortunately you found a shady spot to wait. – Amorella
1218 hours. Both cards are ‘Shoebox’
variety – fun and funnier. One mentioned all Kim’s good points were inherited
from her parents. I particularly like this one. The other says she is “Fabulous”
which is one she should like. Here’s Carol.
Home. Carol is writing bills then off to
lunch. – You are thinking of doing something productive (writing wise) but the
conditions have not been ripe for it. By conditions I mean mostly your own
internal conditions not the landscape environment. – Amorella
1240 hours. I understand. Library
quiet helps but the actual moment of ‘focus’ is something I have not thought
about. It must be some sort of automaticity because I do not sit most of the
time and will myself to write. I do though with a “time to get on with it” or “time
to start”. Shoot, half my life might be on automatic as far as I know.
Hemingway used to write in the morning and fish in the afternoon.
You had lunch at Cracker Barrel at Carol’s
request and you both had your regular country dinners – Carol had fish and you
grilled chicken. You ran more errands and now that you are home you are pretty
much done. – Amorella
1544 hours. It is always pleasant to come home
to a clean house. I’m glad Carol doesn’t have to think about it so much. Now if
she would just automatically have those monthly and insurance bills paid she
would be a lot more comfortable. Kim is trying to talk her into it.
I was on
AOL News and the article “Doctor pens book that claims to reveal ‘rare details
of Heaven’”. I did not find the book review interesting. Here is a quote:
**
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Neurologist
Oliver Sacks, author of the book Hallucinations, once said that these "life-altering
religious experiences are ‘hallucinations,” and that "whether revelatory
or banal, are not of supernatural origin; they are part of the normal range of
human consciousness and experience."
Selected and
edited from “Doctor pens
book that claims to reveal ‘rare details of Heaven’” AOL editors, AOL, August
22
** **
The article
mentions Neurologist Oliver Sack’s book Hallucinations so I took a look
at a ‘Good Reads’ review.
** **
Hallucinations
by Oliver Sacks
Have
you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name
in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find
nothing?
Hallucinations
don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to
sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. People with migraines
may see shimmering arcs of light or tiny, Lilliputian figures of animals and
people. People with failing eyesight, paradoxically, may become immersed in a
hallucinatory visual world. Hallucinations can be brought on by a simple fever
or even the act of waking or falling asleep, when people have visions ranging
from luminous blobs of color to beautifully detailed faces or terrifying ogres.
Those who are bereaved may receive comforting “visits” from the departed. In
some conditions, hallucinations can lead to religious epiphanies or even the
feeling of leaving one’s own body.
Humans
have always sought such life-changing visions, and for thousands of years have
used hallucinogenic compounds to achieve them. As a young doctor in California
in the 1960s, Oliver Sacks had both a personal and a professional interest in
psychedelics. These, along with his early migraine experiences, launched a
lifelong investigation into the varieties of hallucinatory experience.
Here, with his usual elegance, curiosity,
and compassion, Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his
own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about
the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every
culture’s folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present
in us all, a vital part of the human condition.
Selected from http://www.goodreadsDOTcom/book/show/13330771-hallucinations
****
1601 hours.
What I ought to do is buy the book and read it on the trip. Sack’s is one of my
best sources to tell me that scientifically, Amorella is an hallucination. I
don’t argue with the science. I just don’t agree with it one hundred percent. –
rho
Doubt always wins with you don’t it,
orndorff. – Amorella
I love you, Amorella whether you are an
hallucination or a extraordinary reality, I don’t doubt that. I love G-D more. I
also love friends and family. - rho
Agreed. That really covers the topic from my
perspective. Read the book if you like. You like Sack’s books. - Amorella
1610 hours. Why did you have to misuse ‘don’t’?
I didn’t have to. - Amorella
1612 hours.
I would never do that.
You are home. Carol is talking to Amy while
Tim is mowing the yard. They both watch the house as well as take care of the
cats – the Kings are best of neighbors. You ran more errands and on the way
stopped at Barnes and Noble and picked up the paperback version of Sacks’ Hallucinations.
Shortly you will be heading out for a light supper of McD’s Egg McMuffins
topped off with a couple of kids’ cups of Graeters. – Amorella
1858 hours. It has been a good day so far.
Looking forward to seeing Craig and Alta tomorrow.
2049 hours. I read the Introduction to
Hallucinations. The conclusion is very important to me.
** **
Conclusion of the Introduction:
“Here, then, is a sampling
which I hope will give a sense of the great range, the varieties, of
hallucinatory experience, an essential part of the human condition.”
p.xiv. Hallucinations,
O. Sacks.
** **
This gives you the continued focus on what
being human is. Or, as the ancient Greeks might have asked, “What is it then,
to be human?” Your books and blog, if nothing else are your demonstration, your
response to this ancient question. Do you agree? – Amorella
2059 hours. I do; however, your word choice
makes these works appear to be more important than they actually are. I like
this stuff. I would like to understand more of what it is to be a human being,
to exist as a human being. This is what every Homo sapiens is, myself included.
I would like to study our species as if we were aliens because in doing so I am
allowed another quality of dimensional definition. Using/thinking in the
personal pronoun ‘I’ limits what we are; ‘we’ is better, ‘they’ is better also.
(Amorella, I am at a loss here. I know what I want to say but I don’t know how
to best express this in words.)
Expressing these points as you do is perhaps
not the best use of expression but they are your impressions. Deal with it,
boy. You cannot be what you are not. Enjoy the rest of the evening. Post. –
Amorella
2111 hours. This is interesting. I see from your
response that my request is one of slight arrogance. I did not realize this
consciously.
Your insight is not lost. Humility is
gained. – Amorella
2113 hours. Thank you, Amorella. Hallucination
or not, you help me to see who I am; I see you as my spiritual teacher. (This seems odd to think.)
This is because you have disdain for
spiritual guides and that sort of New Age thinking and you have no other
suitable words to use. – Amorella
** **
teacher - noun
the new physics
teacher used to be a nun: educator, tutor, instructor, master, mistress, governess, educationist,
preceptor; coach, trainer; lecturer, professor, don; guide, mentor, guru,
counselor; substitute teacher, sub; informal teach; formal pedagogue; historical schoolman,
schoolmarm.
Selected and edited
from the Oxford/American software
** **
2125 hours.
These words are of little use to me in describing how I relate to and
understand you to be to me. It would be different if you were an entity unto
yourself beyond me (seeable to others) but you are not. You are not as Merlyn
or Socrates or Jesus or any human I can name as a shadow substitute. No more
thoughts presently. I’m done. – rho
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