ESSAYS ON THE ONE THING/ MONISM:

For thousands of years many thinkers and mystics attained the insight of the One Thing. The path each person takes surely differs from every other path. Sometimes the One-Thing insight comes all at once, but probably for most people it's a slow process with many false starts and detours, as it was with this writer. Whatever the case with you, maybe the following essays written from various perspectives during my own journey will help or encourage you forward:

  1. ONE THING, A ROCK, A TREE, & ME (The Universe's things consist of instances within the One Thing that are diminished in various ways from the One Thing's entirety.) Newsletter of July 9, 2017
  2. HONEYBEES & Φ (Maybe honeybees carrying nectar to the hive are more analogous to hemoglobin molecules on my body's red blood cells, than to the whole me. If that's so, there are implications.) Newsletter of January 23, 2020
  3. WALKING WITH AUSTIN (Trying to explain the One Thing concept, I tell a friend that each of us humans is like a pinched spot within the One Thing's being. As such, maybe we sentient beings serve as the One Thing's nerve endings...) Newsletter of February 1, 2019
  4. FROG EGGS, VERSION #2 (Seeing how the vast majority of eggs being layed by frogs are doomed to die before reaching adulthood, I find that, with my new monistic perspective, my take on the matter has much changed since thinking about doomed frog eggs back in 2002.) Newsletter of May 26, 2019
  5. RISING AND FALLING (Before settling on the term "One Thing" often I referred to the "Universal Creative Impulse," sometimes switching back and forth. This essay is typical of when I was thinking in terms of the latter.) Newsletter of November 9, 2018
  6. TREE OF LIFE IN A GOLDEN NATURE GUIDE (Both the Six Miracles of Nature and the "thinking tool" of the Tree of Life apparently evolve toward something. This insight, when meditated on, can be the basis of ethical and moral behavior. This essay shows how the Tree of Life affected my own life trajectory. Newsletter of April 13, 2020