#finding wisdom

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My new search for wisdom through a field of quote books

Back in the 1960s, I sought to get wisdom and used “Common sense to an uncommon degree as my search strategy fir reading H.L. Mencken’s, New Dictionary of Quotations. I put a single dot beside each of the quotes that seemed to exemplify that grandiose idea. I read the whole book a second time but reading only the dotted quotes and double dotted the best ones, and read it a third time and dotted…

Finding Wisdom in Trivium

Wisdom is to be found in the Wooden Books series Trivium, Quadrivium, Sciencia and Designa. I am seeking the wisdom found in the Classic education started by the Greek philosopher Pythagoras in about 500 BCE. These books are a modern attempt at bringing those foundational ideas of Western culture to the Modern world. I try to understand each idea on a page before moving on and am astonished by…

Sharing a little #wisdom with you, but you can't have my #fortunecookie. Check it out.

Today is the last day of school for my kids. They still have exams to take, but they are finished with the learning part. Or are they? We never really stop learning in life. Everything we experience is a lesson and our brains file away the information to use at a later date. Author and naturalist John Muir wrote, “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” The knowledge we…

A Critique of Kali, Individuation, and the Primordial Unconscious

Facing the Wolf: An interpretation of little red ridinghood, Kali, Individuation, and the Primordial Unconscious Jennifer Buergermeister, MA  © 2015 (revised from July 24, 2010)

We surround ourselves by the systems we have created. All systems are connected and permeate into every aspect of our internal and external environments. Some systems and tendencies are created unconsciously from…