TEXT AND ROCK POETRY.

ANCIENT STORY.

BETTER TOMORROW.

THROUGH VIVID IMAGINATION,

FOR TEXT AND ROCK TIME TRAVELERS.

Mark Shaffer Mark Shaffer

MUSE 10.

How Pain is the tenth Muse who causes art not in spite of, but because of suffering.

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SOLO-PACKING.

A reflection on the value of solitude in the wild and how to be harder on yourself than others.

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INDIANA JONES.

How you should do what you love, travel the world, not get tied down… and pass it all on to kid in a Yankees hat.

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ON AWARENESS.

How all scientific experimentation and empirical observation happens through your awareness. And so what is that?

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ISHTAR.

Why Babylon will always mean EMPIRE en every age, and why ours is particularly seductive. Rebel rebel.

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ARROWS AND MOUNTAINS.

How sacred texts make more sense when you flip the arrow on top of the mountain. Here’s why.

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PLATO’S HUMANITY.

Why I pick Plato over his teacher Socrates and his disciple Aristotle on defining “human.”

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YOU HAVE TO LEAVE.

How sometimes you have to go to grow, and what to do when people want the old you back.

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