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“Streams of consciousness” (James)… or perhaps streams of society in which people are more or less conscious of themselves.

It seems less that churches’ sermons and services are answers to more than less conscious, actual, experienced questions of life, beng and meaning, than that they are just the “relgious” part of the dreamy, unconscious, shared inherited life- and mind-style.

How many move around the main elements of human history with too much levity.

A storm as a Meaning temporarily shared.

Unawareness, indeed ignorance, that in earlier time in America, there was a shared overall meaning to world and daily life.

The divisions and individualization’s of Meaning to life and world.

William James, spoke of the “moral equivalent to war”… One could speak of the social, societal, mental,..

The bright sunny days of California seemed a mocking laughter at my focused, determined studies… Cloudy days, and the winters of Moscow, more kindred and consoling.

Studying and reflecting on history in Jerusalem…

Contemplating and enjoying nature at Walden pond.

There are those for whom the contents of books and the results of their studies are as a kind of outer dress they wear. Even if the outer dress may be on their own psyches.

To what degree should a gebildeter Mensch be involved and engaged with the ungebildet Viele?

Recognizing how use-less is most of what I have learned from five decades of study, travel, observations and living, how could I not but be irrelevant to that which predominantly passes for life, work and world?

It is really impossible to evaluate that which is new, without a sufficient knowledge of the olds.