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Taking a Trip

Earlier today, I posted this GSG NaNo Gaiden Podcast episode that references Travis S. Taylor, and some of the things he said at a recent Huntsville TEDx conference regarding quantum mechanics, perception, the way the brain works, and the possibility that your thoughts could have an impact on the universe around you. And when you combine that with some things that have been going on in my personal church service, my work search, my writing, and what I’ve been reading from Michael Moorcock, hearing from Merlin Mann podcasts, etc… well, let’s just say that I seem to be picking up a lot of the same vibe coming from several disparate sources. It has me tripping out a little bit.

And, yeah, Taylor’s speech could be interpreted as total vindication for Battlehymn being harder science fiction than I may have originally thought, but that’s a little beside the point. I’m going to take the space here to work through this for my own edification, though I heartily expect everyone else to kind of skip this.

RAMBLING DISCOURSE BEGINS… NOW!

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Trust30 – #26 – The Integrity Of Your Mind

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The question for today had something about being alive. When was the last time you felt alive, what did you feel, what did you smell, etc… Again, it’s maybe an interesting question, being able to go back and search and feel those and call upon that experience when you’re writing or working. I don’t really see what that has to do with the Emerson quote. I feel alive as I’m writing these posts. But enough about that. Let’s talk a little about the integrity of your own mind. You need to watch your inputs.

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Trust30 – #25 – The Recipe (not) to Follow

I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think about the type of person you’d NEVER want to be 5 years from now. Write out your own personal recipe to prevent this from happening and commit to following it. “Thought is the seed of action.”

(Author: Harley Schreiber)

I never planned on being the kind of person who worries. I used to look forward to each day with a kind of happy enthusiasm that lately seems to escape me. I had a conversation last night when I asked my wife if I was trying to take on too much, and she responded “You’ve already taken on too much.” And then “I don’t think there’s anything I can do to help you not to worry and stress out so much.” It’s not a very healthy way to live, and the weight I’ve put on over the last year is probably due, at least in part, to worry.

A year ago, I was working in a job where I was desperately unhappy. We had anticipated some growth that didn’t come, and I had been looking forward to a promotion that seemed ever further and further from my grasp. And in the course of that, it occurred to me that I wasn’t all that crazy about the job in the first place, and that a promotion was not necessarily going to solve any of my problems.

And then I was invited to resign.

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Trust30 – #6 – Faith

Our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion, we have not chosen, but society has chosen for us. We are parlour soldiers. We shun the rugged battle of fate, where strength is born. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

As I’ve said on recent Galley Table podcasts (available at flyingislandpress.com/flagship), I made a committment to bring a completed manuscript to Balticon next year. And failure would mean… DIRE CONSEQUENCES. This is a scary thing. On many levels.

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