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To live
To meet
Is to love

:- Doug.

Ever larger

:- Doug.

God appears to me as circular, spiral-shaped, spiral-shaping: Father-Son-Holy Spirit—true—beautiful—good—opening outward—growing—embracing—

:- Doug.

:- Doug.

We grow by meeting
To live is to move
To live meet

:- Doug.

Pull my spiral wider.

:- Doug.

I think of God
I think of the sidereal universe
I think of family
I meet a neighbor
We meet another
We argue
We come together
The world shifts
We shift
The future surprises
Each step larger than the last

:- Doug.

Larger knows no end
Larger opens

:- Doug.

I sit in worship—here is larger
In walks Beth, her Sam is in hospital
All hearts flow to here—here is larger
Circle circumference spiral—larger still

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1431

This animal became human the wise not when we knew—all animals know something—rather when we reflected on what we knew.

We invented knowing to the second power, knowing squared. We became capable of knowing and creating not just physical objects but mental ones.

Such reflection is of a higher and different order from learning the observable physical world and the facts given by another. That is the reason we need to leave room after lectures and all-nighters for reflection and sleep.

There is a further possibility: knowing cubed, knowing to the third power. I see developing the arena of knowing ourselves collectively, as knowers reflecting on—us.

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Let’s turn the asylum over to the transformants.

:- Doug.