INTRODUCTION
AHA Writings has been established for the purpose of making the book The Cosmic Broom and other relative monthly essays pertaining to The Cosmic Broom available on line.
The philosophy which has emerged as the result of the experience which occurred to this writer and discussed in The Cosmic Broom, is no doubt complex but actually nothing new.
The evolution of the brain and consciousness has brought about a clearer and more simplified view as to what true meditation and what enlightenment really is.
The idea of meditating especially in the west is relatively new and the whole idea regarding the meditating mind has been shrouded in mystery for dozens of centuries.
The evolution of organic life, including the brain and all life on earth is an undisputed fact. The evolution of consciousness which is separate from as well as being employed by the organic brain is also in an evolutionary state and contains within itself the essence of all of the ongoing and past accumulated conflicts which have been created by man.
Through meditation there is the potential for one to be drawn into a pristine clarity and perceive that which the acknowledged great sages and teachers have discovered through the centuries as the result of having come upon this clear awakened state free of the past and free of the chatterbox brain.
Because of this, the currant serious teachers of true meditation, mindfulness and other various names given to what is generally called enlightenment, are now beginning to discuss this subject in a far more understandable way than in the past.
Since the publication of The Cosmic Broom I have found myself also to be better able to communicate to the reader about true meditation and will now begin to publish short essays which will be added to this website In hopes of creating a better understanding of this subject.
The Complete Manuscript is on the next page of this website. (see above index)
Your questions and comments are welcome.
K93998@BELLSOUTH.NET
AHA Writings has been established for the purpose of making the book The Cosmic Broom and other relative monthly essays pertaining to The Cosmic Broom available on line.
The philosophy which has emerged as the result of the experience which occurred to this writer and discussed in The Cosmic Broom, is no doubt complex but actually nothing new.
The evolution of the brain and consciousness has brought about a clearer and more simplified view as to what true meditation and what enlightenment really is.
The idea of meditating especially in the west is relatively new and the whole idea regarding the meditating mind has been shrouded in mystery for dozens of centuries.
The evolution of organic life, including the brain and all life on earth is an undisputed fact. The evolution of consciousness which is separate from as well as being employed by the organic brain is also in an evolutionary state and contains within itself the essence of all of the ongoing and past accumulated conflicts which have been created by man.
Through meditation there is the potential for one to be drawn into a pristine clarity and perceive that which the acknowledged great sages and teachers have discovered through the centuries as the result of having come upon this clear awakened state free of the past and free of the chatterbox brain.
Because of this, the currant serious teachers of true meditation, mindfulness and other various names given to what is generally called enlightenment, are now beginning to discuss this subject in a far more understandable way than in the past.
Since the publication of The Cosmic Broom I have found myself also to be better able to communicate to the reader about true meditation and will now begin to publish short essays which will be added to this website In hopes of creating a better understanding of this subject.
The Complete Manuscript is on the next page of this website. (see above index)
Your questions and comments are welcome.
K93998@BELLSOUTH.NET
MEET THE AUTHOR
I was born in Beverly, Massachusetts just after the great New England hurricane of 1938, and regard myself as a very typical teenager of the 1950’s and graduated from high school and trade school with just good enough passing grades to get by. I considered myself to be quite socially normal and of an average demeanor and like all others, was dealing with the usual conflicts of the day. Having been trained as a printer and printing press operator I spent four years in this business and although I was good at it and enjoyed the work, I found that working in a building was too confining for me. I seemed to require lots of space because even at this early age I had become a full- fledged obsessive compulsive philosophical “thinkaholic” who seems to have been born with the need to ask many impossible questions, with nary a place to ask them. It seems that I was immune from being able to latch on to any philosophical belief system which would have certainly stemmed the tide of inquiry as there were too many of them and they seemed to me to be in constant battle with one another.
It appeared also to me that there had to be a common thread of universality regarding the plight of man. It was easy for me to see at a young age that human beings everywhere, no matter what flavor or design, location or degrees of this or that, simply had to be enmeshed in a universal system with a universal outcome of fairness, balance, and truth. Simple logic and reason brings this to light. To be without a belief system leaves one more venerable to the ebb and flow of life, as well as being completely open to unfathomable learning. Around 1959 when a friend of mine purchased an old broken down boat yard in Newburyport, Massachusetts (which became Powers Yacht Yard), I then abandoned the print shop and at the yard I found my open space to work in and to continue to entertain and expand my thinking process.
During this six year period in Newburyport I designed then built (with an old Coast Guard surf boat as a base), a cutter rig sailing vessel which I named “Finlandia”, and spent many a long weekend single handing off the New England Coast especially between Gloucester Massachusetts and the serenity of Gosport Harbor at the Isles of Shoals, off the coast of York, Maine and on two occasions went as far south as Nantucket Island.
Single handing off shore requires a sharpened attentiveness to detail, for here, there is no room for error. One’s responsibility is complete and self-reliance has to be at the full. This attention to detail was to become helpful, as things later developed, and sailing alone on Finlandia when things were going well was a delight to my mind and with no outward limits. The brain often times soared.
With prospects of a lean winter with little work at the Powers Yacht Yard in the sixth year, I reluctantly set my sights on the inviting warmth of Fort Lauderdale. Leaving all which was known behind, and going alone was not a particularly easy thing for me to do but within twenty four hours of my arrival there, I had secured a job as a yacht refinisher as well as a temporary place to stay.
I soon purchased an old 36’ Elco Cruiser to live on at Summerfield Boat Works and joined the others on the work crew who worked and lived in the yard. It was a comfortable family affair of like minded vagabonds. It was two years later without warning that I was visited by the Cosmic Sense which to put it mildly turned my world upside down.
Several years later I formed my own yacht refinishing Company and gave my full attention to running this business for the next four decades. During this period however this thing which I now refer to as the “Greater Friend”, this awakened intelligence, would appear from time to time for a brief stay and continues to do so.
I have spoken of this cosmic event only briefly to three different friends over the past forty years, and one of whom, Phil Thorpe, had urged me to put it on paper. I thought about this possibility for some time and came to realize that this true story was significant and worthy enough to be made available, so I began the “Cosmic Broom” project in May, 2011.
Today I am sort of semi-retired and still have a few private yachts which I do varnish work on and otherwise hopefully I am doing the right thing re: diet and excercise, and am quite healthy at seventy seven with an active life and continuing insights into what Gibran reffered to as "the greater sea".
I was born in Beverly, Massachusetts just after the great New England hurricane of 1938, and regard myself as a very typical teenager of the 1950’s and graduated from high school and trade school with just good enough passing grades to get by. I considered myself to be quite socially normal and of an average demeanor and like all others, was dealing with the usual conflicts of the day. Having been trained as a printer and printing press operator I spent four years in this business and although I was good at it and enjoyed the work, I found that working in a building was too confining for me. I seemed to require lots of space because even at this early age I had become a full- fledged obsessive compulsive philosophical “thinkaholic” who seems to have been born with the need to ask many impossible questions, with nary a place to ask them. It seems that I was immune from being able to latch on to any philosophical belief system which would have certainly stemmed the tide of inquiry as there were too many of them and they seemed to me to be in constant battle with one another.
It appeared also to me that there had to be a common thread of universality regarding the plight of man. It was easy for me to see at a young age that human beings everywhere, no matter what flavor or design, location or degrees of this or that, simply had to be enmeshed in a universal system with a universal outcome of fairness, balance, and truth. Simple logic and reason brings this to light. To be without a belief system leaves one more venerable to the ebb and flow of life, as well as being completely open to unfathomable learning. Around 1959 when a friend of mine purchased an old broken down boat yard in Newburyport, Massachusetts (which became Powers Yacht Yard), I then abandoned the print shop and at the yard I found my open space to work in and to continue to entertain and expand my thinking process.
During this six year period in Newburyport I designed then built (with an old Coast Guard surf boat as a base), a cutter rig sailing vessel which I named “Finlandia”, and spent many a long weekend single handing off the New England Coast especially between Gloucester Massachusetts and the serenity of Gosport Harbor at the Isles of Shoals, off the coast of York, Maine and on two occasions went as far south as Nantucket Island.
Single handing off shore requires a sharpened attentiveness to detail, for here, there is no room for error. One’s responsibility is complete and self-reliance has to be at the full. This attention to detail was to become helpful, as things later developed, and sailing alone on Finlandia when things were going well was a delight to my mind and with no outward limits. The brain often times soared.
With prospects of a lean winter with little work at the Powers Yacht Yard in the sixth year, I reluctantly set my sights on the inviting warmth of Fort Lauderdale. Leaving all which was known behind, and going alone was not a particularly easy thing for me to do but within twenty four hours of my arrival there, I had secured a job as a yacht refinisher as well as a temporary place to stay.
I soon purchased an old 36’ Elco Cruiser to live on at Summerfield Boat Works and joined the others on the work crew who worked and lived in the yard. It was a comfortable family affair of like minded vagabonds. It was two years later without warning that I was visited by the Cosmic Sense which to put it mildly turned my world upside down.
Several years later I formed my own yacht refinishing Company and gave my full attention to running this business for the next four decades. During this period however this thing which I now refer to as the “Greater Friend”, this awakened intelligence, would appear from time to time for a brief stay and continues to do so.
I have spoken of this cosmic event only briefly to three different friends over the past forty years, and one of whom, Phil Thorpe, had urged me to put it on paper. I thought about this possibility for some time and came to realize that this true story was significant and worthy enough to be made available, so I began the “Cosmic Broom” project in May, 2011.
Today I am sort of semi-retired and still have a few private yachts which I do varnish work on and otherwise hopefully I am doing the right thing re: diet and excercise, and am quite healthy at seventy seven with an active life and continuing insights into what Gibran reffered to as "the greater sea".
