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What did I learn and game from my nearly 2 months in Italy, Sicily? What did I gain in my now 50+ years of more or less independent personal life? And at “100”?

How few have gone beyond the unconscious received assumption to enjoy life.

The USA is a good example of a country not to follow.

A diagnosis of the problems of even only American society and civilization requires a great deal of study and thought, much going back much further than before America even began.

To what level of intelligence and education is the average US television commercial directed?

This is what passes for “Christian” in America. But it is actually a question of levels of human intelligence. But they can’t help it.

I wake from walking and searching rather deep inside “Ostia Antica” still attempting to locate places in the life time of Augustine there, where he did, or might have done, various activities. And determined to read more on him there then. It is not serious to not consider his relation to the Mithraea there.

And if you traveled “abroad” and came back the same then what was the point of having gone. Those who go to travel, to Europe, for example, to enjoy themselves are just taking their patterns and sleep with them.

Meeting with, conversing with, interacting with complete strangers in a completely new place allows one’s soul to live — perhaps to grow — and develop, and be in ways that the patterns of one’s daily home life do not.

I did not go to Italy and Sicily for seven weeks to come back unchanged, less knowledgeable and insightful, with a happy smile.

A Horse with No name, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, sitting in a café by the beach, of Ostia. Flying to Charlotte, North Carolina, but…Where am I? When?

One universality: the stupidity of teenagers.

I gave the man who obviously needed some money some of my change. In a few minutes he kindly came over to instruct me which bus to take to the airport.

I survived the travel.

Those who accept and those who reject Western Christianity are directly influenced by Augustine, his theology and his anthropic cacogony*.

*http://steppenwolfmoscow1.blogspot.com/2016/02/evil-origins_96.html

I believe one of the reasons I have had to travel to so many places to see the locations of events, buildings, and someone, what is the very abstract education, I received as a typical American.

“History” was something that happened outside, before, or in books around us. Not in which we lived, explained clearly. The Story of Maning, the Meaning of the story in which we lived. Live.

I cannot think of a better, deeper, nor more meaningful way to end my Italian journey than to find this litte-visited Mithraem (at the far distance from the entrance at “Ostia Antica”). It represents a path Augustine did not take, though it now seems there were a large number of real opportunities for him to have.

Caltabellotta was mystified by some in German-speaking “esoteric Christian” Europe. Myhified Modern History. About like the enchanting lights in the halls, empty city village.

Within three minutes of arriving at the Palermo train station, I am approached by two strangers to make some sort of purchase. One man selling an umbrella; the other man didn’t listen to hear.

After studying a local famous sculpture’s work in a nearby village museum, I walked into his studio, expressed my appreciation of a sculpture with ideas… And then, seeing the Dostoyevsky piece, I decided to take a photo andI told this man, who I have never met before, where to stand for the photo. I told him to think what he thought when he created the sculpture of Dostoyevsky. His daughter tells me it captures not only the essence of the work, but the essence of him.

I had no ticket for the bus, but the driver just waved me on. 👍