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Psychology - Beyond Forests To See The Tree - Author Jay Wax, Toronto, ON (2025)

10/06/2025

Light From The End of The Tunnel

"Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void
It is shining.....

That you may see the meaning of within
It is being........"

John Lennon, Tomorrow Never Knows

In the theories of science, going right back to Greek philosophy of 300 BC, it is understood that time and space consists of infinitesimals of points and moments. In a geometrical graph, the points that describe distances on the X and Y lines in themselves have no size or dimension. These are called infinitesimals in number theory, though such understanding is presently more understood as limits. I wish to in this essay to include the self as we daily experience it in the matrix of time and space is an infinitesimal, and thus a main reason for deep thinkers to find themselves in the model and mood of existentialism and phenomenology defined by psychology, philosophy and theology.

The existence of the moments of time and the dimensions of space by infinitely small quantities has given rise to much speculation. In ancient Greece, the philosopher Zeno illustrated that the definitions of motion and time led to paradoxes. Zeno proved that in a race between a slow turtle and a fast rabbit, given that the turtle has a head-start, the rabbit could never win the race. I refer you to the original literature for exact elucidation.

The philosopher Henri Bergson of the early 1900's was much concerned about how our minds are in illusion in beliefs about our participations in time and space. Time and space if accepted literally as existing in the material reality leads into complexes of thought and intelligence that create illusions of our being individuals in painful separation from the world as a whole.

A further derivative of being intellectually engaged in the infinitesimal of time and space, is the implication of our own self that travels in time and space as being an infinitesimal itself. Such realization can produce despair or be an inspiration for higher understanding. Our consciousness is an infintisimal, despite passionate and desperate attempts to expand consciousness with a variety of psychological, spiritual or pharmalogical techniques. True we are witness to a great variety of form and manfestiations of consciousness, and may explore further as we please. However we always come down to this momentary consciousness of human reality.

The Buddhist logic is that the present moment is a negation and non-existence. The present is what divides the future from the past, and it is only in the past or in projections towards the future that we may find substance. Buddhists called this understanding our experience of the void. They further believe in salvation from the sufferings of non-existence to find release in a great void of the mind of Buddha called Nirvana. There are many schools of Buddhist philosophy.

My main thesis here is that the nothingness and void of the existential phenomenology of our psyche is a symptom of consciousness being an infinitesimal as we journey in time and space. Healing may come as we realize this emptiness is sustained by the mind of the Buddha, the Sat-Chit-Ananda of Vrshni Krshna, Kalimat Allah in Islam and called the Ohr Ayin Sof in Jewish Kaballah, according to the various individuals cultural and religious identities.

So it is by the forces of natural creation human beings find themselves drifting in time and space as the assumed everyday and lifelong journey of life. Thus our experience both of the external world and our internal psyche is phenomenological. I. Kant of the 1700's whose vast scholarship and original philosophy, talked in these terms. That is every thing and every thought passes without permanence. Over the last few centuries, many Western philosophers and psychologists have acquiesced to believe in phenomenology and existentialism. They see our human reality as devoid of meaning, and that it is up to us as individuals, if we so choose, to put meaning into passing phenomena. The revelation of phenomenological existentialism is that we are free, but with a freedom that has neither direction or goal, lest we give it such.

In a theological stance, Hebrew Kaballah preaches the belief in the Ayn Sof, meaning literally 'Without End' as a name of god. G-d is understood to be an Infinite Void whose energy manifests in the Ohr Ayn Sof, an infinite source of light-like power, intelligence, morality and beauty.

It also enlightening to examine the name/concept of god in Hindu Sanskrit as Sat-Chit-Ananda. The implication that is that our finite consciousness is only a tiny spark of participation in the infinite truth, consciousness and ecstasy of the being of god.

Human beings have proved incapable of understanding time and space, or living our lives on the whole with satisfaction, and peace and prosperity in their many manifestations. Thus both scientists and psychologists wander in their perceptions of their worlds frustrated to find final and complete solutions to our most urgent problems.

Scientist, the philosopher H. Bergson and Buddhists would agree that our analyses of time and space, whether in geometry, physics or within our own psyche serve practical purposes; but only practical purposes of daily survival and reproduction/creativity in its variety of forms. We do not produce a foundation of knowledge that endures as substance in the space/time worlds. As such, a strict definition of knowledge as eternal and universal is merely hypothetical in our reason, as I. Kant goes to elucidate in detail in The Critique of Pure Reason.

F. Hegel goes to great length in his Phenomenology of The Mind to show that in philosophizing we are engaged in a negation of thought. It is the negation in the heart of being which causes us to move and wander from idea to idea without reaching a final, complete conclusion. It is the Spirit that keeps our being united as the Essence.

It can be a psychedelic, religious or psychotic experience to realize that we are in our daily lives engaged in an illusive infinitesimal of being, of self and knowledge. However we can continue to graph our lives, as it were, putting the points of time and space, into practical calculations for achieving our goals. For myself, the vision of the Orh Ayn Sof, the Infinite Light of The Void, provides a grounding for the loss that can come with an overwhelming realization of human finitude, ignorance and strife that we witness in our history and present day. I am Not advocating Jewish Kaballah as the one answer to the problems of phenomenolgy and existentialism especially in these times of the political abuses associated to religious superiority. However my contribution I hope is one inspiration for realizing a wholeness of self that may come to a person from a of religious, healing or spiritual source.

The painting is called Void of The Golden Abyss by Wei Xue.

On this day Oct. 6/25 as an ancient limestone tablet more than 4,000 years old has disappeared from the tomb of Kent Ka in Egypt.

10/06/2025

Snakes and Ladders - Symbols of Psychic Energy

Note - This is a republication of a previous post that failed to be published on June 25/2024

Genesis 28:10-16 'Jacob left Beer-sheba and set out for Haran. He came upon a certain place and stopped there for the night, for the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of that place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place. He had a dream; a stairway was set on the ground and its top reached to the sky, and angels of God were going up and down on it. ' from Genesis 28:10-16

There exists in a variety of teachings that human beings have within themselves a hierarchy of powers. We may use these powers to ascend our being to higher levels of spirit and understanding.

In yoga, this is known as the Kundalini force that lies potentially in our spine and brain for animating the chakra/wheels of psychic/spiritual energies. In Jewish Kaballah, it is said we have access to sephirote, wheels of angelic energy that connect us with god. In Bhagavad-Gita there is taught a simple doctrine of sankhya-yoga of seeing the human mold in order to strengthen our connection to the spirit. This sankhya understanding is relevant to a practical psychology. I am expounding on it here, according to my understanding.

On the ground level, so to speak, is our basic connection to the earth and its variety of manifestations in life forms and elements which we relate to in our environment by our senses. We function, work and survive by being aware of our impulses from the senses to find food, to find a mate and for protection, among other uses. We can, as many people do, remain mainly in the consciousness of our senses. Such ways may seem easy, pleasurable and desirable. However, the life of the hedonist who is seeking only the pleasure of the senses, often leads to painful addictions. Also the pleasure seeker through use of the senses, often limits their view of the world to specific environments, such as bars, theatres, and po*******hy. This style of life remains a choice people make or have been brought up in from a social environment, and may be the limit of what the person seeks, and what they will discover.

Above and including the senses is the mind, the psyche. In this realm we experience art, concepts and philosophy in forms that connect us with civilization in general. The person lives in environments of libraries, museums and dreamy contemplation. The mind provides a higher point of perspective as it includes the input from our senses, and then translates them into images, symbols and signs. It is called sublimation in the psychoanalysis originating from Dr. Freud. However, living primarily in the mind leads us to drift in and out of illusion, the transitory dreaming mood which often gets frustrated and does Not find a goal, and does Not find satisfactory conclusion of its desires. The trap of living in the mind involves a form of surrealism, and a psychedelia that can bring in the use of drugs that may create pleasurable illusions. There are those who feel content to live with what they consider inevitable illusion, and find pleasurable distractions of the mind in art, psychedelia and the leisures of daydreaming to be an end goal of life.

As we continue in this line of thought, we can see another level of being in the intellect. Our intellect takes the data of the senses, the inspirations of our mind and creates practical theories that manifest in science, religion and spirituality in general. The intellect is a vast realm that is largely the agent for the wonders of civilization, the wide range of commodities made with scientific ingenuity, including basic energy provisions, electronic tools, construction, vehicles and the high tech, artificial intelligence of computers. It seems to many, particularly in this Age of Enlightenment as called in the theory of civilization, that our reason and intellect is our greatest resource, the peak of evolution, and for the religious a direct link to god. The intellectual pursuits of human being, particularly genius, remain over 1000's of years in forms of science, art and religion.

It takes another leap of our being to see that the intellect also spawns evil in the form of political propaganda, in religious fanaticism, and in the ongoing personal failures in life to find a permanent happiness. The intellect unfolds in the true and false, the good and the evil, and release and subjugation to the material world. Yet many, if Not most, are satisfied that human reason manifests the divine, and many preach that our intellect shows us that god does Not exist. Many see our achievements for survival and reproduction in civilization as the doings of our brain in control of the mind, body and senses, and in manipulating the many natural and man-made tools we use in everyday life.

The goal beyond the manifestations of the senses, mind and intellect, is the spirit. The spirit manifest as a force that has no limits in its range of vision, takes people to heavenly, or sometimes hellish worlds. The spirit provides hope for miracles, for transcending unbearable sufferings, and for ecstasy independant of material sources. It infuses glory into art, and has given purpose to many scientists such as Aristotle and Isaac Newton.

There is a dark side to our spiritual understanding also. A problem with living in the spirit is that many find it too nebulous to understand, too much like a deceiving mysticism, and too free and wild to use in disciplined and practical forms.There are those who find evil possession in forms of psychotic-like delusions, who live in fear of evil spirts that manifest in dangerous forms beyond control. There are those who choose the evil forms of spirit in satanism or to justify a violent, abusive lifestyle such as fascism in politics.

On top of this ladder of the senses, mind, intellect and spirit is the The Great Spirit, the One G-d, the Higher Power as the person may understand It. This faith and way of living in the goodness and greatness of god, is beyond another human being to provide any exact formula to enact. There exists our world religions, the mystics among the theologians, and the personal revelation.
The senses, the mind, the intellect and the spirit can be seen as a pointer, a finger that tries to point to god as the final conclusion for our endeavours of life. There is also the saying in Buddhism, common to other forms of religion, that warn us Not to mistake the finger that points as being the object that it means to point towards.

The drawing comes from The Barnabas Centre.
Note- This thesis is taken from a few sutra/paragraphs of the Bhagavad-Gita. Most of the elobaration is from my own understanding.

Note - Snakes and Ladder is a children's board game in which one climbs upwards in the picture of the ladders, or descends in the picture of the snakes according to the roll of dice, the goal being to reach the highest point.

Note - The Bhagavad Gita, 'God's Song', often referred to as the Gita, is a 700-verse Hindu scripture which is part of the epic Mahabharata. The Bhagavad Gita is dated to the second half of the first millenium BCE. ...... It has been noted that if there is any one text that comes near to embodying the totality of Hindu Thought, it is the Bhagavad Gita. - edited from Wikipedia.

Note - Sankhya Yoga is formulated to bring a spiritual understanding in our relation to material existence, in our bodies, the wider environment and universe as a whole, as I see it.

On this day Sun. Oct 5/2025 as the Blue Jays defeat the Yankees 13-7 and now lead 2-0 in best-of-five AL Division Series.

08/26/2025

Hearing Human Voices

Note - Contains s*xual reference for psychological understanding.

The English word 'love' as articulated in our mouths expresses exactly the movement of sound from the throat, pushed by the tongue and closing on the lips. As such it may express the human syndrome of kissing with the whole mouth as part of s*xual in*******se. This enunciation of the word 'love' also illustrates a power in the human voice to exchange affection through dialogue.

Thus 'love' expresses one human heart reaching out to another. The Hebrew word for the heart is 'lave' so we can play with the mantra-like phrase 'lave love lave'. However such expressions can also be deceitful, selfish and predatory. There are those who seduce the human heart with words that resemble poetry, eroticism and music, seeking conceited attention and creating abuse. This 2 faced nature is true of verbal communication in general.

Aboriginal American Elders say that the human voice is the softest of all living creatures. Thus our words and music is a gift from god if used with kindness and truth, as it is intended. Soft words help appease any threat we may feel from a strange animal that is in our proximity.

In Jewish Kaballah, there is a power called Sephirote, a kind of living wheel of energy called Daat. Daat signifies knowledge and is likely related to the word 'data'. Daat is located in the throat region. Thus the word, knowledge as expressed in verbal concepts has an independant power of its own. Isa, Jesus Christ, begins a gospel with the striking phrase 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.' John Lennon, with the Beatles clarifies this understanding in his song 'The Word.' It is said in the Jewish Torah that god revealed creation though uttering ten words in succession, as god said, 'Let there be light, and there was light.'

Among Hindu teaching, the use of sound is a core part of Vedic scripture. Mantras, chants in the Sanskrit language, are used for every variety of purpose; for prayer, for ecstatic song, for creation, meditation and in mythical times for creating powerful weapons. The Bhagavad Gita, the central Vedic text, is a song of god.

Daat is an independent power, with a life of its own. The way that the human word is fitted exactly into the concept and oral expression of 'love' gives Daat a status of godlike nature. It is said the 10 Sephirote are like angels in an energetic form. They may be seen as similar to the allies described in C. Castaneda's books on Yaqui knowledge, that is great formless powers put into a perspective and discipline of self-realization.

There are many people as myself, who have since they were first able to read, taken a passion to studying books of many kinds, whether philosophy, literature or scripture. I for one, found myself over time, having a sense of being lost in a labyrinth of thought that did Not reach a conclusion, that as the passion for knowledge grew, so did a sense of despair of ever finding a final, complete, conclusive weltanschauung of understanding.

Thus this great power of the verbal knowledge, written or spoken, does Not belong to the individual human being as creator, maintainer or destroyer. The unique gift of speech given to human beings seduce us into thinking we will find complete solutions to our problems, to reach a kind of omnipotence in our created civilizations. This is one reason the problem of alien life forms takes on an aura of wonder in relation to human intelligence. Our power of word, our vast array of expression and compilation of knowledge takes on an alien feel, separated from the Great Spirit, as is common in modern scientific enlightenment that wisdom appears as an astronomically growing 'data' bank, with computer memory banks Now exceeding that of a humans as if a god, or superior alien life form is embodied in Artificial Intelligence.

Indeed, a person represented by the mere physicality of our existence, can resemble a machine. Human genius is comparable to computer generated Artificial Intelligence. In this sense, our own human intelligence partakes of the nature of being artificial if separated from The Higher Power.

I do Not mean to overlook the sacredness of silence in its wide variety of forms. Wisdom is enhanced with the discipline of listening, in speaking but a little. Understanding can come with formless meditation, free from words in speech and thought. Words have No sense unless we silently acknowledge the gap between them. 'Of secrets, I am silence.' says the Bhagavad Gita.

Human knowledge is Not created and developed on our own resources physical, psychological or symbolic in other forms. We are a conduit of this gift from god of viewing the world through the lens of a Sephirote, a living angelic spirit that connects to us physically in our throat, and emanates through our speech as love, if so intended. Thus human civilization cannot stand on its own power, as the frustrations, sufferings and evils of the many ways civilization have manifested remain a dominant force in everyday life, along with all the wonders of technology and literature that accompany civilization.

What I say here is may Not be an advance in the science of psychology. However it should ring in the minds of readers as an archetype that is also part of the Hindu meditation in the chakra system, most particularly the Vishuddah chakra associated to the throat.

It is puzzling that my essay may seem redundant, a circular logic or based on an invisible pure faith. Yet I will let it stand that I may partake of the conduit of the spirit and folly of a shaman.

Perhaps the thesis of this article is better expressed in the lyrics to John Lennon's song created with The Beatles, called The Word.

Say the word and you'll be free
Say the word and be like me
Say the word I'm thinking of
Have you heard the word is love?

It's so fine, it's sunshine
It's the word, love

In the beginning I misunderstood
But now I've got it, the word is good

Spread the word and you'll be free
Spread the word and be like me
Spread the word I'm thinking of
Have you heard the word is love?

Everywhere I go I hear it said
In the good and bad books that I have read

Say the word and you'll be free

Now that I know what I feel must be right
I'm here to show everybody the light

Give the word a chance to say
That the word is just the way
It's the word I'm thinking of
And the only word is love

Say the word, love.

Note - I do Not know who created this artwork of the Vishuddha chakra as part of the yoga philosophy.

On this day Aug. 26/2025 as Taylor Swift announces her engagement to a top football player.

05/20/2025

Reading Between The Lines Of Computer Code
The Enigma of Artificial Intelligence

There is a natural mystique about the forms and implications of AI, but it is No different from the wonder we experience in studying nature or other forms of science. The understanding of AI or artificial intelligence is what in logic is called a recursive problem. We create machines with our own intelligence and then analyze how the machine itself manifests more complex forms of similar intelligence. While AI is based on electronics and mathematics, the vast array of its manifestations that effect many parts of life in the modern world has created for AI a dubious reputation of being harmful or evil. So too any large scale business engine can be, and is used for both productive and non-productive causes. Photography in the 20th century has profound connections to astronomy, with perhaps equal competition in money making to the Hollywood and related po*******hy abuses.

The development of mass machine technology first became deeply controversial in 1800's England, when factories became able to produce large amounts of capital in money and commodities. Karl Marx goes into great depth to expose the extremely abusive living conditions, particularly in England, when whole families, men, women and children worked in nearly slave conditions of over 12 hour work days, and living in dwellings made only for basic shelter. The pollutions created by large scale coal mining and coal burning created unhealthy lifestyles, of misery and chronic disease.

Machines are useful in replacing human labor for speed, sheer force and the quantity of products. As such they have always been a part of civilization, though historically they were much simpler and less pervasive then what we see today. Aboriginal Americans had irrigation, machines made for fishing, and a intense system of mathematics implicated into the daily life based on astrological calendars. Sadly, I do Not know much in details, partly because of the European destruction of the Aboriginal civilization and literature was committed with unbelievable thoroughness and force.

The major step from using machines in factory settings to AI is that AI is supplementing human beings abilities to use mathematics and logic. The beginnings of computer science owes much to the work of A. Whitehead and Bertrand Russel particularly in the still classic text called Principia Mathematica published in 1910. This book bridged the conceptual gap between logic and mathematics into a system of practical computation. Strictly speaking, for a modern scientist, their is No distinct difference between logic and mathematics.

The puzzling mystification comes because logic is a natural part of human reason and thought while mathematics is learned. Every functioning human being, from early childhood forwards uses logic for survival, communication and creativity, even if the individual does Not clearly realize they do so. However the inspirations for decision making in such simple deductions as 'I am hungry so I will eat.' is in theory of the same kind of reasoning used when a scientist harnesses inventions such as building construction, farming and creating commercial art.

The dark and dangerous fears of AI is that machines can replace human labor in both positive and negative ways. Machines help alleviate heavy physical labor, and can save much time. What would the average consumer do without his electric can opener? In negative ways, mass production controlled by exploitative types of ownership, known as capital, can force and induce large populations into demeaning, basic living wage and unhealthy lifestyles by the conditions created in mass employment, as in offices, factories and armies. Such I think is the same danger of AI abuse in replacing human thinking forms into machines. If AI becomes under the power and economy of large governments, then the development of controls such as data collection and arms manufacture will make it easier for the few in power to control the citizens, whether in democracy or other forms of government. As such the human spirit which depends on morality, love and beauty can be overwhelmed in the face of a world dominated by digital machines.

In his last book, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy by Edmund Husserl, the writer gives a profound warning about the dangers of thinking that science can replace the need for experiencing life in a human context. He says the superimposition of the models of science on our life-world as a whole, a tendencey that began with Galileo, will lead to a loss of meaning and direction, as I understand him. So too, the imposition of the model of AI to become synonymous with the human mind as a whole, is destructive to self-esteem and shared community values.

The fears in the controversy around simulating a human being by AI machines is largely based on the lack of distinction that machines, no matter how complex, can only reproduce what humans have put into them, in thought and in labor; granted in almost astronomically larger output. Medical science recreates AI models of humans for better ability to cope with diseases but that does Not imply the doctors are trying to build a race of robots.

The spiritual contest is that AI can be and is currently harnessed for greater forms of mass destruction by military around the world. Science regretfully has always been a tool for warfare, and the cry of Albert Einstein, referring to the atom bomb, 'If I knew what was to become of my discoveries, I would have become a watchmaker.' often vibrates in my memory. The horrifying possibilities of AI war technology, I hope will force humanity to realize a necessity to ban the development and use of weapons altogether. This ending of a lifestyle of scientific and materialistic aggression has long been the dream of human right activists, religious leaders and the common need for peaceful and productive family/community life.

There is much more to be said about AI, particularly in relation to energy consumption, our almost total dependence on electricity and the absolute imperative to change from fossil fuel to clean energy. It is my experience, that those most sincere in AI development are also leaders in the production of clean energy, in which AI plays in important role. In a positive note, virtual reality is facilitating wonderful ways of creativity, which I personally enjoy in music and art, and will likely be an important part of classic education for all ages.

There is No stopping the human imagination from the science fiction of AI replacing human beings altogether, of humans evolving into cyborgs and war between the machine and humans. Alien forms of technology said to be under the censorship of government controls, may be implicated in manifestations of AI technology. The more practical and necessary controls is to curtail abuses of AI, in excessively violent and other abusive gaming, in obsessions with technology that take us away from the love of nature, in a philosophy that put the human mind into the form of a machine, rather than the appreciation of a Higher Power creating such an amazing and sacred life form that we embody.

AI simulated the multifaceted nature of human nature; of artistic beauty, of intellectual genius and the needs for leisure because human beings put their own ideas and labor into their construction. On the other hand, we need culture, religion and moral sensitivity to keep under control our baser instincts of greed, tyrannical controls and thoughtless indulgences.

Note - The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy is an unfinished 1936 book by the German philosopher Edmund Husserl. The work was influential and is considered the culmination of Husserl's thought, though it has been seen as a departure from Husserl's earlier work. - edited from Wikipedia

The painting is called the The Robot Uprising by Bryn G Jones.

On this day, May 20th 1925 as grocery prices become the highest form of financial inflation in Canada.

03/27/2025

All I Know - (for better or for worse)
Thoughts on the song written by Jimmy Webb in the 1970's, recorded by Art Garfunkel, Linda Rodstadt among others.

G-d said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, (deceived the human being about the word of god) you are cursed above all livestock and every beast of the field! .........Thus there will put enmity between woman and man, and between her seed and man's. (for taking the word of the serpent over the word of god). The human being dangers to crush your head, and you (the serpent) will bite his heel.

From Genesis, Beresh*th 3:15 of the Jewish Torah, my own paraphrase.

This passionate love song is one of my favourites. It expresses the unstoppable force of the monogamous romantic love between human beings. I was often entranced and puzzled about the symbolism of the lyrics. The connection to some verses of the Jewish Torah adds melodramatic and tragic overtones to the otherwise beautiful declaration of love. I had a dream about myself singing this song, and as a letter sent from god, or an angelic representation, I spent time in meditation to understand my dream.

I have my own beliefs about how the Nachash, the serpent in the paradisal garden of Eden came to symbolize the deception of sensuality in the human body that tempts to subverts our higher morality and spirituality into gross forms of lust. I have written a complete article on this this same page. This form of sensual attachments as an obstacle and evil in our human understanding is universal, and is called 'k**a', or desire by Buddhists and Hindus. Among other religions, it is emphasized that people should regulate their sensual pleasures with a middle path, called Wasatia among Muslims and practicing mitzvas, scriptural commandments among Jews. There are others called hedonists or in a cult mentality who believe and practice exessivity in sensuality, such as in drug taking, s*xuality and food.

It is important to remember that the snake is Not an evil being, but also an important creation by god. There remains symbolism in the nature of the snake as it has little vocal power in its hissing in contrast to the sublime power of the word of god. I do Not intend to cast dispersion or negative judgement on the beauty of love expressed in the song. Here are the lyrics to the song 'All I Know'.

I bruise you, you bruise me,
We both bruise too easily,
Too easily to let show,
I love you, and that's all I know.

All my plans have fallen through,
All my plans depend on you,
Depend on you to help them grow,
I love you, and that's all I know.

When the singer's gone
Let the song go on
It's a fine line between the darkness and the dawn
They say the darkest night
There's a light beyond.

But the ending always comes at last
Endings always come too fast
They come too fast, but they pass to slow
I love you, and that's all I know.

I came to some interesting conclusions after understanding my dream of myself singing this song. The subtext of the meaning is in the tragedy that accompanies romantic love when such a relationship is Not accompanied by forms of self-realization, whether psychological or spiritual. The couple deep in love experience the sensuality of s*xual devotion exclusive to understanding further, deeper and more comprehensive meanings of their attachment. Thus like the deceit of the Nachash, the serpent, the way god arranges for people to be partners in love, marriage, and usually parenthood, is overridden by overwhelming emotion. Thus the woman and man bruise each other (to include same s*x relationships) like the serpent may bite the foot of person when the person has been walking carelessly and steps near or on the head of a nearby snake and is bitten in return.

The romantic monogamous love thus brings in the elements of tragedy. The marriage is like a song so that when 'the singer is gone, the song goes on'......'but the ending always comes at last' (perhaps in natural death, or disease, an accident or war), 'endings always come too fast' as life is short.

Even in happy relationship of true love, 'All my plans have fallen through,' as the individual may experience traumas in the career, or in traumas in the lives of their children such as disease or addictions, but in the true love, 'all my plans depend on you, depend on you to help them grow', as the partners do their best to overcome the trials of life, 'I love you, and that is all I know.' The love remains from the beginnings of falling in love until to keeping the vow unto the time of inevitable death. 'They say the darkest night, There's a light beyond.'

The thesis I am presenting is that true love as many experience it, the passion and beauty of monogamous romance is Not complete in itself. Under the spell of the deceitful Nachash, the serpent of paradise, (also seen as the arrow in the heart from K**a, or Cupid), people will live their lives, accepting with gratitude the sensualities and culture of family life to be accompanied by inevitable tragedies, the inevitability of death, and the swinging moods of good and bad fortune.

The psychologist Dr. Carl Jung of the 20th century has written extensively on the healing that can come in the psychological appreciation of marriage as an essential part in self-realization. While remaining the limitations of his scientific and practical forms of therapy, self-realization is also term borrowed from Indian yoga and Hinduism. 'Know thyself' was pronounced by the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates as the wisdom the oracle of god. The major religions, and also Aboriginal and African spirituality are intended to activate a lifestyle for finding god within natural creation, within oneself and the everyday world, female and male, Yin and Yang as in the Oriental understanding.

There are those who choose a life of celibacy as a Nun or Monk in devotion to a Higher Power, and see themselves as in a symbolic marriage to god as the partner.

Some will conclude that the best a person can hope is to have a life of relative prosperity, peace and enjoyment accompanied by benevolence with other peoples in work and their environments, agreeing with the wisdom of King Shlomo, Solomon who conveys 'All is vanity, no matter how profound our understanding and acts may seem.' - my own paraphrase.

My dream as it appeared to me, has shown me that passionate monogamous love with its beauty and power is Not complete in itself, though it tends to be presented to appear that way. The true love of partners is a gift to be put in perspective as a gift from god, intended to include higher powers of religious, spiritual and humanitarian forms of self-realization.

I hope this essay does Not reduce whatever beautiful feelings any one including myself may experience in hearing this song. I recommend along with respect for my commentary, that when listening to a song such as this to practice mindfulness and turn off the inner dialogue of judgement for the few minutes.

The painting is The Garden Of Eden by Katherine Roundtree

"All I Know" is a song written by American songwriter Jimmy Webb, first recorded by Art Garfunkel on his 1973 debut solo album, Angel Clare....More recently, Webb invited Linda Ronstadt to join him in a duet version for his 2010 album Just Across The River. - edited from Wikipedia

Jai Joseph Noonday Wax

On this day March 27th/ 2025 as the fans at the opening baseball game of the Blue Jays in Toronto boo the U.S anthem.

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