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Flints & a big scraper
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Early to work, the weather, well, fall - leaves turning, the lake a deep glittering blue, comb the beach for flints and new finds.
Odd rocks and a few worked bits of flint - bottom right of center, a serrated edge, micro-blade, upper right 2 heavily worked bits of flint.
I'm joined by a mallard who's clearly interested in what ever it is I'm doing...
Helping me to look. Having taken the picture I zoom in and see loads more rocks of interest, it helps that the camera doesn't capture the waves, it's still, and so I can take my leisure looking through the photos.
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Next day, early again, more flints, looking beneath the waves:
Jasper, flints, and one big scraper or hand axe that perfectly fits the hand, clearly - chipped into a tool.
Not a pretty piece, but substantive.
Time out of Mind...
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The most interesting link of the day; half million year old wooden "structures" discovered, built by ancestors we can't even conceive of...
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66846772
Consider, the Bible, Uruk, Epic of Gilgamesh, Dynasties of Europe, Iraq, the Cradle of Civilization, at most, 10-15,000 years old.
And then there's this, the fact we (not necessarily...) were building structures hewn with stone tools half a million years ago. What was lost in the interm?
Ample ground there for the mind to play...
Harold Sherman
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And these two books, found at the thrift shop:
So you can see that my reading is taking me off in all sorts of fascinating directions.
The first book I only managed to skim, used it as a prop to stare down Baristas and the Taco waiter and have them deliver my coffee/tacos unbidden, holding the book up, fingers to my temple, nothing in it that I hadn't read a hundred times before, and so dropping it off with some customers at the restaurant so they could "beam" me their orders, well, it's disappeared. Somebody is taking it all a little too seriously...
So on to TNT, which is much the same as everything else in the genre...
It's good, in that you can actually read up on the authors now, this, in the age of the internet, and see how closely their lives paralleled their teachings, I'm forever thinking of a certain notorious diet author of the 70's who wrote countless books on the topic and then died at a desk filled with snickers bars of a massive coronary...
Psycho-Pictography
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Now, having finished this, an amusing read, pop-psychology-new-age-jibber-jabber, the Bible contemporized, "Secret Esoteric Teachings" done in the Vernacular; "The Secret", which, of course, is no secret at all, it has been written about for thousands of years - change yourself, change your thinking, and you will change the world...
The entertaining part of this is the authors' "Mental Imagery", or provided "Psycho-Pictographs", stories that he tells, contemporary, that illuminate or illustrate his point.
Now I'm somewhat struck by the fact that he's simply recycling and updating the Bible, the Psalms and Gospels actually illustrate the same points, only they are in need of some contemporizing; few people can nowadays relate to the imagery of a shepherd and their flock.
But an introduction to more obtuse authors along the same theme, for example Richard Maurice Bucke, author of "Cosmic Consciousness", others who I will have to look up later, a curious read, and as I've the idea already, the plot, the theme from a hundred, thousand other authors I'll soon have to find the time to apply all of these abundant teachings...
Now, herein lies a problem, that most of what I'm reading in one way or the other reinforces my thinking, and I'm in need of something that rather challenges it...
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