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“My Octopus Teacher” – Best Nature Film EVER
A Blog About — “My Octopus Teacher” – Best Nature Film EVER! — J.X. Mason’s Blog of 9-28-20 Today, I want to sing the praises of a new nature documentary now showing on NETFLIX, and also available online. the documentary film is called, My Octopus Teacher. If you look closely at our opening photograph, you…
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Quick Reads on The Origin of Life
Quick Reads on The Origin of Life — J.X. Mason’ Blog of 8-17-20 While busy writing a new full-length Essay, “The Origin of Life on Earth,” I’ve come across a couple of excellent sources…
Is Trump a Good Leader? Is Biden?
Is Donald Trump a good leader? Is Joe Biden a good leader? — J.X Mason’s Blog of 8-4-20 The ancient book of Taoist wisdom, the Tao Te Ching, is composed of just 81 short prose-poems (called “Chapters”). About one-third of them are devoted to “Leadership.” Below are 3 of the its Chapters on Leadership: #17,…
The “Tao” of Continuing Creation
The “Tao” of Continuing Creation — J.X. Mason’s Blog Post of 7-21-2020. The past few decades have seen books with titles like, “The Tao of Physics, “The Tao of Pooh,” “Zen and the Art of Archery,” “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” and many more. If you’re curious about The Tao and/or about…
Evaluating Taoism and Zen
Evaluating Taoism and Zen “Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which…
What Is Spirituality?
J.X. Mason’s Blog of 7-6-2020. To sign up for Our Weekly Blogs, go to Subscribe Our Book of Continuing Creation describes a “Spiritual Path Based on Nature, Reason, & Science.” But what is “Spirituality?” Spirituality is the human experience of deep and positive connection with Nature and all of Creation. This experience often encompasses feelings…
Mindfulness While Doing Skilled Labor
Mindfulness While Doing Skilled Labor — J.X. Mason, Blog of June 30, 2020 We know that meditation and mindfulness help us relax, help us “go deep,” and help us feel at one with Creation. But mindfulness is also critical when we are doing…
Get Her Phone Number! – A Lesson in Cooperation
The film, A Beautiful Mind, tells the real-life story of John Forbes Nash (played by Russell Crowe), a mathematician who was one of the founders of Game Theory and a Nobel Laureate in Economics. A Beautiful Mind won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2002. In this film, Nash has a flash of insight…
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How Many “Missing Links” Are There Now?
How Many Missing Links Are ThereNow? – – Blog of 6-16-2020, by J.X. Mason. When Darwin published Origin of the Species in 1859, he wrote that human were quite likely descended from apes, but the world would have to wait for sufficient evidence to emerge. (Only Neanderthal remains had been discovered in 1856, just…
The Processes of Evolution — and their spiritual meaning
The Processes of Evolution — and their spiritual meaning The Way of Continuing Creation is based on Nature, Reason, and Science. For our Spiritual Practice of Continuing Creation, the Science of Evolution is the most important of all the sciences. Not because it is the most fundamental (physics and chemistry are more fundamental), but because…
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Wisdom from the Tao Te Ching
How can a person work hard and achieve much, without breaking down or burning out? Listen to the wisdom of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 63 (translation by Stephen Mitchell, 1988, Harper & Row) “Act without doing; work without effort, Think of the small as large and the few as many.…
Song of the Open Road
An Anthem for the Path of Continuing Creation What is the Path of Continuing Creation? What is the positive, creative, life that it calls us to? Our Book of Continuing Creation describes our spiritual path With Essays on evolution, world religions, philosophy, and even mathematics. But no one described our Way better than America’s great…