Recent content by Hermann

Hello Mendalla: Two years ago my wife and I moved to a basement suite in our granddaughters house on a steep lot overlooking Kal Lake. I am establishing a small orchard and vegetable garden here, which is quite a challenge on a steep slope. Apart from growing fruits, berries, and vegetables, we...

Cherries and apricots are ripening: a sure sign of high summer. Alas, it has been a cool and wet summer so far here in the Okanagan. Cherries are splitting and are discounted at the fruit stands and orchards. Good time to make cherry cider.

To be blissfully stunned is heaven. And, because we don't know anything for absolutely sure, it is intellectual and mystical enlightenment.

It has been a crazy winter here in the Okanagan. A mild December and January, followed by a colder than average February and first half of March. The north arm of Kal Lake froze over, which hasn't happened in a long time. The past week, though, was above average, and snow and ice are melting...

Myth, in colloquial English, sometimes means lie, false truth or untruth, as in "myth or truth?" questions. That's why I prefer to use the word "mythology," which is less ambiguous. In my thinking, mythology metaphorically expresses something that is deeply felt but can't be explained...

"Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night." -Dylan Thomas Socrates' words presumably had forked lightning, so that he did not rage against the dying of the light. So, if our own thoughts or words...

Good to see you too, paradox3, and Pinga, and everyone else. I am doing well, considering that I am almost 80 years old. My wife and I are now living in the basement suite of our granddaughter's house, enjoying our retirement and babysitting our great-grandchildren. I am trying to establish a...

WHO AM I? A something or a nothing? A circle or a dot? I really don't know what I am; And what I know, I'm not. -Angelus Silesius The above four liner by Angelus Silesius describes me to a dot. :)

The ties between north and south of the US border are stronger than those between west and east within Canada, not only at the Pacific coast but also here in the southern interior of BC. BC's Okanagan valley is the northern extension of the US Okanogan valley, and the Okanagan/Okanogan River is...

This is a seal depicting Jesus, found by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem during the excavation of a 4th. century Christian house. It is said to be the oldest depiction of Jesus found so far.

How does one organize knowledge and wisdom? The quest for knowledge is well organized. Science and the scientific method are universally acknowledged. But science cannot and does not answer all of our questions. That's where wisdom comes in. The quest for wisdom, though, is largely personal...

Interesting, thanks.

Yes, she probably was.

Hello everyone, I'm back. A little older but none the wiser. :) I don't think we choose our belief system; most of us get indoctrinated into it. Although I believe in cosmic unity, and the unitive feeling is my moral compass, this is not a doctrinal belief. I feel reality to be a unified...

Of course, as Luce pointed out above, Jesus' self-sacrifice as a metaphor for the need of the Ego or Lower Self to sacrifice itself so that a Higher or Divine Self might arise in its place is always valid. The Phoenix renews her youth Only when she is burnt, burnt alive, burnt down, To hot and...