Saturday, January 5, 2019

Some Meta Remarks, Particularly on The Generals and Norman Morrison


The ending of the Old Year and the beginning of the New Year is always a special time for me. There is the excitement of wondering what the New Year will bring, wondering what presently-unimaginable thing I will be looking back at exactly one year from now.

Perhaps I can post more articles on this blog during the coming year than I did during this past year. I would like to do that.

The reason I didn't post very much during this past year was that I was out upon the land most of the year, in the USA and Canada. I rented out my home in Ohio early on, then took off, at seventy-seven years of age, to see what I could see for a year, while I was still able. I saw a lot, connected to a lot, and survived it so remarkably well that I am going to try it again for an other year.

Helen Keller said: “Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing.”



There are just so many topics that have preoccupied my mind recently that I need to write about some of them, particularly the subject of psychopathy (generally meaning sociopathy, anti-social personality disorder and even malignant narcissism) and the subject of Near-Death Experiences. I have been reading recently in these areas and am just astonished at how much has been done in them in during the last twenty years, never mind forty years.

I have also been astonished to see that two of my blog postings over the past year which have received the most “hits,” the most read around the world, have been my review of Thomas Hicks' book, The Generals, and my article on Norman Morrison.

I wrote those two articles right out from my soul, very much expecting that there might well be only one single soul out there in the rest of the whole world who would read them or understand them. I knew that I spoke the truth.

I also did absolutely nothing to promote them, nothing to draw attention to them. And yet they are two of my most popular, most-read, articles.

Amazing. Provoking.