The Naked Soul

Essays

The Naked Soul

  1. Stop This Parenting!

    Stop! Stop parenting your kids! Stop telling them what to do, what not to do. Stop telling them what to think, how to think and what NOT to think! Let the child lead you with their…

  2. Of Perceptions

    We need to find the essence of life, mired as we are in the mundane, the daily commute, the rise and fall of the stock market, the cacophony on the streets, the emotional humdrum of everyday…

  3. TIME

    Time exists because of the intrinsic dynamism of matter. Electrons revolve around the nucleus. Planets revolve around the sun. Movement and time are intertwined. Remove motion, time stands still. But still exists as matter exists. Remove…

  4. The Knowing Brain

    To be is to know. We know what we are, why we are and how we are. We may not know that we know, but know, we do. We limit ‘knowing’ to the senses we sense.…

  5. Fear Fear

    Fear defines us. Fear defines all that we do. It could be some subtle, subconscious fear or a phobic fathomable fear. Fear binds and chains us into doing what we do. Fear keeps us from naked…

  6. Why a ‘naked’ soul?

    A blog of musings of a naked soul. A soul that sheds all external influences and looks at life, at existence, at consciousness, from within and from without…. as an insider and as an outsider. A soul, shorn…

  7. Death.

    Death stares at me in the eye. I watch the last of my father’s bated breaths, Yet, it is not frightening. No horror, no grief, no sadness. There is an aura of calmness, a sense of…

  8. The Chasm of Chaos

    There is this chasm of the mind that has very slippery slopes. No matter how much the mind tries, it keeps slithering back down…no matter what it grasps onto, it keeps falling back, down into the…

  9. Nothing

    From nothing we come…. to nothing we go….. Nothing matters…. Nothing matters!!  Yes, nothing does matter!  For between nothing and nothing lies everything! So carry on!

  10. Future Imperfect

    What if we stopped thinking about the future…about consequences…about what ifs….. We revel in futuristic forward thinking. A lion hunts when it is hungry. Once it has eaten, does it worry about its next meal? Does it…

  11. What if….

    What if…. A child born was left untethered… What if… No right or wrong, no sin or virtue, no morals or norms touched it’s mind…… What if…. It was not led to be this or that….to…

  12. The Duality Dilemma

    Light. Is it a wave? Or a particle? Electrons, are they energy? Or matter? The duality that is apparently ingrained in all things material pervades the ethereal as well. We live in a constant dilemma of…

  13. Life as a Continuum 

    Many plants can be propagated by grafting. Carefully break off a branch, rebury part of it in soil and voila, it sprouts roots, then shoots into a being of its own! Or is it? Had it…

  14. Doomsday Phobia

    The race is on. Global warming,  carbon footprint, ozone depletion… The race is on – to save the earth. There is panic everywhere. Almost as much panic as plastic in a landfill, choking us, as we…

  15. One To(o) Many

    We are all acutely aware of our bodies, identify ourselves with our bodies. We think of our body as being one. A body. What if it isn’t? Evolutionarily speaking, the very first multi-cellular organisms were but…

  16. The Identity Crisis

    Who are we? No, really, who am I ?? The daughter of so and so, the father of this and that, living in such and such? Did I choose to? Did I decree to whom I…