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Tag: kurt von meier

Inflection point

As you my readers know, I customarily limit my essays to about 570 words, but in this case I’ve departed from that convention and have written this much longer piece. I hope you find it interesting.

Events propagate in a branched structure, and inflection points are those nodes in a branch that … Read the rest

Larry Barnett Recollections 4 Comments February 1, 2022February 8, 2022 23 Minutes

The Great Purification

Hopi elder Thomas Banyacya

My late friend, scholar Kurt von Meier, had the opportunity to sit down with Hopi elders during the early 1970s and discuss the state of human affairs. The Hopi people have been living in the same place since before Columbus arrived, and are keen observers of the natural world.… Read the rest

Larry Barnett Culture 1 Comment September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 2 Minutes

This must be what’s called getting old

Kurt von Meier, PhD., Circa 1967

In the garden
Amid the whispering bamboo and
Wind chimes
He sits and enters the samadhi
Called “nothing happens”

I’ve become an object of study in an anthropological research program. Seriously, two earnest doctoral professors and one obsessive… Read the rest

Larry Barnett Recollections 1 Comment April 27, 2016February 27, 2020 2 Minutes
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