The Stillness Before Time

Reflections From a Fellow Sojourner






Michael J. Holshouser







What is written here
Has been spoken, written, and lived
By many in many times and places in human history.
Ever disguised by innumerable masks, costumes, concepts, and technologies,
Its mysterious nature has timelessly confused and frightened
Those unable to discern beneath the surface.

This aphoristic vision is simply another attempt,
Using contemporary masks, costumes, concepts, and technologies,
To illustrate in thought something as old as old is,
That which has ever yet never been.

It is for those who desire nothing from this manifest dream
But that it be a journey into freedom.

Best wishes.












The Stillness Before Time
Reflections From a Fellow Sojourner


One Through Thirty

One * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 * Thirty


Essays

Of the Human Journey

Got God?

Ten Reflections


Blog and PDF

Blog * PDF


Other Resources

Books * Movies * Links * Blogs





Main Blogs & PDF's

(All blogs and PDF's subject to change, so stay tuned)

The Stillness Before Time
Reflections From a Fellow Sojourner
Blog * PDF

The Ponderings of Yaj Ekim
Blog * PDF

Breadcrumbs 2015
Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time
Blog * PDF

Breadcrumbs 2018
Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time
Blog * PDF

Breadcrumbs 2019
Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time
Blog * PDF

Breadcrumbs 2020
Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time
Blog * PDF

Breadcrumbs 2021
Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time
Blog * PDF

Breadcrumbs 2022
Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time
Blog * PDF

Breadcrumbs 2023 & Beyond
Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time
Blog * PDF

The Return to Wonder
Field Notes From the Unknown
(Major edit underway -- Edited copy colored blue)
Blog * PDF


Blogs & PDF's of Other Works

Michael's Rabbit Hole
A Selection of Breadcrumbs & Other Aphorisms
Blog * PDF

The Call of the Eternal
A Conversation With My Self
Blog * PDF

Imagination: The Great Usurper
Blog * PDF

Lost in Translation
The Human Paradigm's Linguistic Muddle
Blog * PDF

The Gordian Knot of Ethical Thinking
Blog * PDF

Jesus on Prophets
What Any Seer Likely Faces Returning to the Cave of Origin
Blog * PDF

Aftershocks Autumn 2024
Blog * PDF

Of Meaning and Purpose
Ponderings About the Futility of It All
Blog * PDF

Mystery, Mystery & More Mystery
Blog * PDF

Imagination, Imagination & More Imagination
Blog * PDF

Doubt, Doubt & More Doubt
Blog * PDF

Science, Science & More Science
Blog * PDF

History, History & More History
Blog * PDF

Patterns, Patterns & More Patterns
Blog * PDF

Reincarnation, Reincarnation & More Reincarnation
Blog * PDF

Standouts From the Return to Wonder Edit
Selections From the First Sixteen Chapters
Blog * PDF

Of the Human Journey
Along with Got God? And Ten Reflections
Blog * PDF

To Be or Not to Be
Blog * PDF

The Mystery of the Mystery
Blog * PDF

Who Was the First?
Blog * PDF

The Real is Discovering
Blog * PDF

59 Moments to The Way It Is (And Is Not)
The Scribe's Guide to the Great Whatthe#$*!?
Blog * PDF

Definitions
An Incomplete Selection 0f Contemplative Definitions
Blog * PDF

Conversations
A Variety of Letters, Emails, Texts, & Sundry Odd 'n Ends
Blog * PDF

Titles, Titles & More Titles
Blog * PDF

Even More
Blog * PDF

Sketches of the Once Upon a Time
A Few Epiphanies and Other Hallmark Moments
Blog * PDF

The Corollaries of Yaj Ekim
Blog * PDF

Possible Last Words & Epitaphs
Blog * PDF

The Standard Ripostes
The Scribe's Go-to Responses to This and That in the Day-To-Day
Blog * PDF

My (Not Quite) Haiku
Blog * PDF

Jester Amok
Blog * Facebook * Facebook (Original)

Uncle Sam Says
Blog * Facebook

Once Upon a Christmas
Blog * PDF

Ditties for the Bluegrass Pyre
Blog * PDF

A Short List of Books for the Up and Coming
Some Written Works That May Help Get the Young up to Speed
Blog * PDF

Spam Responses (a.k.a., WTF Is This Shit!?)
Blog * PDF


A Collection of Miscellaneous Creations

Final Exit and Related Links

COVID-19 Information Links

The Blind Men and the Elephant

Of A Philosophical Nature

The Four Agreements

The Joyful Curmudgeon

12 Rules You Can Live By

Quotes, Quotes & More Quotes

Fichier Circulaire de Michael

How to Work in Any Environment

50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School

Election 2016: The Rise (and Fall?) of Donald Trump

Michael's Little Warehouse of All Things Amusing, Absurd & Profound


Other Blogs and PDF's by Michael

Other Blogs and PDF's by Michael


Facebook

Michael Holshouser

Fichier Circulaire de Michael
(Michael's Circular File)


Yaj Ekim


Twitter

@YajEkim


Sivana East

Michael Holshouser


Online Booksellers




Lulu

Amazon

Barnes & Noble


Miscellaneous

Contact Michael

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Copyrights

Thucydides

The First Follower













There is really only one Way.
It is without division or boundary.
It is without name or theology.
Awareness is its scripture,
Here now, its venue,
You, its witness,
Your life, the journey.









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