Monthly Archives of: October 2026

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Existing Beyond Words

October 29, 2026
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Though one — as an organism — can often use words, one can sagaciously often exist beyond words. Most people, unfortunately, have become conditioned to mostly function in (and “as”) the realm of limited words. Words, being symbols, are usually sequential by nature. It takes time to say or think a word (or a series of words in a sentence). Most people think and chatter — mentally — endlessly (as words). Words depend upon time to exist. In a big way, words are time-bound (i.e., fixed in and “as” time). Interestingly, many people, here in WordPress and elsewhere, often congratulate each other on their use of words. Unfortunately, many (if not all) of these people dwell almost exclusively as words (in the psychological domain in which they exist). Since words are virtual, symbolic, and essentially fragmentary, the fields of so-called existence (i.e., consciousness) they support may be equally virtual, symbolic, and essentially fragmentary; interestingly, people are very good at complimenting each other for some sort of supposed intelligence (in this limited, virtual, rather sorry state of affairs).

Please examine the possibility of often existing beyond the framework of words. Please look into the possibility of being beyond what is virtual, symbolic, and time-bound. What is virtual, symbolic, and time-bound may not be what real and true living is. It may be a pseudo-life — a limited, pseudo-intelligence — that people call “life.” Many may be existing in (and “as”) a pseudo-life while feeding the fanciful furnace of seeming to be very intelligent and refined… whereas, all the while, they may be functioning as what is largely and fundamentally unalive. Is there a possibility that we have become so lost in the tools and measurement of thinking that we have taken the tools to be more than just tools? Have we allowed mere tools to become the essence of our consciousness? Looking at the world through (and “as”) tools may not be looking sagaciously whatsoever; it may be a virtual, symbolic distortion that is an adulteration away from true living and holistic, sweet spirituality.

Like in the ancient Parable of the Cave, we give each other prizes for who can name and count the superficial shadows within the cave the best… while failing to see the deeper (sunny) reality outside of the limited shadow-oriented realm. We need to turn around and reexamine all that we have been taught and programmed to adhere to. Words take time to exist as what one is (mentally); words are time. There is a timelessness (a vast order and intelligence) that is not merely virtual, fragmentary, symbolic, and limited (as words are).

Photo by Thomas Peace c.10-29-2026
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Deep Perception and Understanding

October 22, 2026
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To see deeply is to perceive beyond the field of the known. The known is always limited, and it is based on memory. Additionally, the word is not the thing. The word “flower” is not the flower. Most of us perceive things through (and “as”) a field of memory and recognition. We tend to pigeonhole things and see them through the lens of what we were taught or from what we had experienced in the past. Rarely, if ever, do we see things as if for the first time; rarely do we perceive everything holistically.

When we perpetually recognize things from patterns in our memory bank, we see from and with what is old and previously categorized. Memory is of the dead past; a mind that stays stuck in (and “as”) memories is remaining with what is dead and unalive. Additionally, most of us look with (and “as”) separation and fragmentation. Few fully realize that the “perceiver” is not truly separate from the perceived. We look with learned separation and division. To look at life holistically without a lot of fragmentation affects understanding, for understanding emanates from clear, unadulterated perception. Please do not just exist in a world of words and fragmented patterns, for doing so makes the mind robotic, indifferent, and out of touch with reality.

A mind that sees beyond fragmentation can be extremely intelligent in terms of cognitive processes. However, cognition for such a mind wisely exists in abeyance, such that cognition does not always dictate what is seen. Such a mind is then often beyond words, though it can use words accurately and skillfully when they are needed. That “being beyond words” is not a result of a practice to get a desired result; such practice can make the mind mechanical and rather robotic. Rather, it is an intelligent, effortless occurrence that is not groping for some desired goal. Being effortless, time is not a factor.

Photo by Thomas Peace c.10/22/2026
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Fear and the Unknown…

October 15, 2026
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Most people are afraid of the unknown. Many would rather stay in what they view as being known, safe, and comfortable. This blog often invites people to go beyond thought/thinking into the unknown. Of course, a lot of people would feel frightened or uncomfortable with what is presented here, and not care to delve into it. Additionally, this blog often suggests that a separate “thinker” is not truly something controlling thoughts from an internal distance; it is often suggested that the “thinker” is a projection of thinking… and actually another thought. Venturing into such notions, no doubt, frightens a lot of people. It makes them feel uneasy. It seems to radically go against the grain of what they were taught. What is written here may seem to go against the grain of their religious beliefs. These beliefs, largely being psychological hopes, then feel threatened and made less secure, which naturally (in many) results in fear and evasive behavior, fostering a disinclination to continue exploring in this blog.

Truth and legitimate spirituality are not games. You don’t get to pick what reality and truth really are. They are what they are. You can pick what you wish they were, but you can’t pick reality. (It’s childish to believe in the equivalent of fairy tales.) I’m almost 75 now. Many years ago, when i was in college, i read about how — in certain individuals, while they remained alive — their brains were surgically divided. The brains, walnut-like in appearance, were surgically separated. Following the surgery, each half did not realize what the other half was doing or thinking. When the bridge between the halves is cut—usually to stop severe, life-threatening epileptic seizures from spreading—each hemisphere continues to function, but it loses direct contact with what the other half is experiencing or deciding. Despite these experimental quirks, most patients live remarkably normal daily lives. Subcortical brain structures (deeper parts of the brain below the cortex) and alternative pathways still coordinate basic functions, and everyday environments allow both sides to receive similar sensory input. Well… reading this back then helped me to question my orthodox organized-religion background. Back then, i decided to endeavor to walk towards truth without relying on the authority of organizations. One would walk towards truth no matter what others promised or offered for belief. Truth was to be observed (however pleasant or unpleasant it appeared.) Fear was transcended. Later, one realized that you can’t walk towards truth… for there is no path (in time) that leads to the timeless.

A lot of what is written in my blog may seem radical and uncomfortable (at first). While reading it, a lot of fear can indeed manifest, often due to conditioning from our primitive culture. When fear occurs, one is not separate from that fear. However, one is not, thank goodness, exclusively what that actual fear is. Intelligence is that immense order and understanding that transcends fear, illusion, beliefs, and the fragmentation that — to itself, and in itself — is bereft of wholeness, love, and eternity. The unknown is where the infinte beauty and the magic are; the known is of fear, limitation, mediocrity, and sorrow. Though we may feel and seem insignificant, each moment of our lives is immensely important. Each moment offers infinite potential and profound understanding. We can remain darkly blind, limited, and fearful, or glowing and selfless with deep understanding.

Photo by Thomas Peace c.10.15.2026
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AI, Computers, Job Loss, (and You)

October 8, 2026
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In the future, people will be losing their jobs in large numbers to sophisticated computers, AI, and robots. As time goes by, it will be amazing to see the mushrooming numbers of job loses and the types of jobs that will be taken over by autonomous robotic systems. Society will have to adjust, and it will be a difficult time. Over time, however, it may actually be extremely beneficial, affording people time to delve inwardly (i.e., into meditation and mindfulness) rather than to be consumed so much by processes of “doing.”

As one has said many times before, there are already a lot of people in society who are — themselves — very robotic and conditioned (in rather mechanical, stale, cold-hearted ways). This needs to change. Instead of reacting like indifferent machines, humans need to transcend conditioning and perceive in holistic, dynamic, and truly spiritual ways. This would be something that each individual can be involved with… hopefully beyond the limiting clutches of organized systems, cold methods, mechanical practices, and dominating authorities. Additionally, those of us who are truly intelligent would not be prone to having computer chips and mechanical systems inserted into parts of our brains. Such intelligent people would remain dynamic, natural, whole, perceptive, and free (beyond the clutches of mechanical processing/calculating robotic chips and inserts).

It is going to be quite a different world in the future, but we can still thrive in it successfully if we are prudent and truly insightful. Please do not merely look robotically at things and creatures in life. Please ensure that compassion and true spirituality flower in your life (and for those around you who are not separate from yourself). Leave mediocrity, indifference, and barbarism to exist in (and “as”) the dead past where they belong.

Photo by Thomas Peace c.10-8-26

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Ingrained Psychological Separative Distance

October 1, 2026
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Most of us look with (and “as”) separative distance. We look with (and “as”) fragmentation. Interestingly, looking in such a way is an extension from eons of conditioning. We continue to perceive in those “old,” routine, antiquated, and conditioned ways. It is largely why a lot of us get bored, depressed, and melancholy. It’s because looking in the same old ways for thousands of years has kept the dynamic, living vitality at bay, leaving us fragmented and repetitive in a stagnant kind of way. Continued violence, indifference, and conflict are there (in society) at the end of it.

So, we look with (and “as”) separation. Most of us see the living world as separate from ourselves. Even internally, thoughts are perceived as being separate from the central self (that supposedly creates them from a distance). However, it may be that the central self (i.e., thinker) is a product (i.e., an extension) of thought/thinking. What is supposedly looking at thought (with separation) is itself just another thought; so the separation is fabricated. When fragmentary thoughts occur, one is actually (fundamentally) what they are… without some magical distance. The distance is an age-old mental fabrication that we absorbed.

So, the “perceiver” is not separate from the perceived. When one looks at a frog, the image of the frog constitutes consciousness. This does not mean that one literally eats flies (thank goodness). However, there is an elimination of fragmentation when one realizes all this. It is fragmentation and illusory separation that dull the mind, strip it of its energy, making it prone to violence, indifference, competition, and dullness. One will not likely be visited by the sacred if the mind is a network of falsehoods, deception, and time-oriented separative illusions. Perceiving without separation does not take effort and time. It is separation and fragmentary thought that waste energy and take time.

Photo by Thomas Peace c. 10-01-26