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August is my vacation from reality. Raising 4 young kids means I left reality in the dust long ago. Here is my summer in tractatus, which is something like an existential haiku, verbal rifts in a piece of cerebral jazz. I spent summer engaging infinity, reading about continuum and integer and deciphering what I could as well as reading about my version of human infinity, Jesus. Like Tupac the late rap star, Jesus’ production continues despite reports of a demise. New rifts continue to be released regularly, 2,000 years after he tangled with the Kingdoms of David and Caesar, Jerusalem and Rome.

In the beginning was the Word. The Word was family.

"No matter where you are, you are to go to James the Just, for whose sake heaven and earth came into being," --Jesus, according to Thomas.

Jesus’ commentary and editing of the Torah includes many disturbing points. For instance, in the first beatitude Jesus advocates destitution (according to the JD Crossan translation), "Blessed are the destitute for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." This is Crossan’s words, obviously, as Jesus rarely spoke words that resembled English. ("Yamana washbook lan" for "forgive our offenses" is about as close as it gets to hearing English from Jesus' lips.) Crossan changed Jesus' opener in my understanding. I was taught it meant if you lack spirit you are owed the Kingdom of Heaven, but Crossan makes the IOU a challenge. He has Jesus ask us to give up security and only then will we be free, a human photon on Earth.

Here is a selection of Matthew’s account of the Sermon.

Fortunate are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Fortunate are the pure in heart, for they shall see.

Fortunate are those who are persecuted, for they shall live.

Fortunate are the peacemakers, for they are his children.

When we stir in Gospel of Thomas, we get:

"Do not lie and do not do what you hate"

Love your friends like your own soul, protecting them like the pupil of your eye"

"Where there are three deities, they are divine. Where there are two or one, I am with that one." (e > 3 > pi).

"This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away"

I am not your teacher. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring that I have tended.

If you fast, you will bring sin upon yourselves, and if you pray, you will be condemned, and if you give to charity, you will harm your spirits.

"Congratulations to the one who came into being before coming into being." -- order

Now follows my August Tractatus:

The first word was Abba, Dad.

All men are sons.

We must find truth, she does not find us.

Self-worship (atheism) is common and easy to spot.

Life is infinite

Let the smallest be you.

We are galaxies.

Teach.

We created Time.

Words point, enclose, and take the place of things.

Speech joins us to others with like minds.

Attempts to reconstruct our earliest languages suggest past languages were as complex as modern day.

We are story.

Synchronize to restore your health.

Orbits are sincere.

What we don't protect grows larger every time we fail to do so.

Did we lose anyone?

Priorities change.

Self was invented to understand others.

Self is performance art.

We are tractatus, a set of disorderly ideas.

We approach who we know.

There is only one form of pain, infinite loss.

Invest in the world, as many as you can recall.

Asking is pleasurable.

The highest form of ourselves is within.

Be intimate with life.

Have the courage to find yourself in everyone

News & Reviews NEW BOOKS

Eating an Artichoke: A Mother's Perspective on Asperger Syndrome
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Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems
by Richard Ferber
Guide to common sleeping problems for children 1 to 6 years old. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743201639/eegspectrum

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
by Kay Redfield Jamison
Scientific autobiography of bipolar disorder. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679763309/eegspectrum

Neuroimaging Parts A & B
by Michael F. Glabus
Two-volume set covers methods and application of various neuroimaging techniques for clinical use and research. --www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0123668778/eegspectrum

Neural mechanisms of aggression. : Adaptations to deal with competition, expressed out of context, may be destructive. Biological signals that mediate aggressive behavior should be targeted for therapies. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17585306

Neuroimaging on brain plasticity in recovery from stroke. : Post-stroke motor recovery is associated with activation changes in specific brain structures. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17589415

The human EEG - Physiological and clinical studies. : Temporal variability of spectral coefficients necessitates large samples of EEG. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17585964

Prevalence of alcohol abuse : Alcohol abuse/dependence was found to be 1 in 8 men and 1 in 25 women. Age, income, schooling, religion and illicit drug use mediated these prevalences. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17589746

Anterior cingulate volume in pediatric bipolar disorder and autism. : Left anterior cingulate gyrus volume was smaller in bipolar children. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17568686

Sleep-wake disturbances 6 months after traumatic brain injury: a prospective study. : Sleep-wake disturbances such as daytime sleepiness and fatigue are prevalent after TBI. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17584779

Rostral anterior cingulate cortex activity in theta predicts antidepressive response. : Resting theta activity at rostral anterior cingulate cortex correlated with med response for depression. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17515172

Ten Hz rTMS on resting EEG power spectrum in healthy subjects. : Ten Hz rTMS induced increase delta power. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17478041

Is ADHD associated with illicit substance use disorders in male teens? : Male teens with ADHD were many times above baseline likely to suffer from drug abuse. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17567400

Attention, executive functions and reading domain abilities in ADHD : Executive dysfunction should be assessed as specific comorbidity of ADHD www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17501726

Herbal medicines in the treatment of psychiatric disorders : Reviews herbal psychotherapy including safety, future areas of application, and synthetic psychotropic medicines. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17562566

Meditation on frontal alpha-asymmetry in previously suicidal individuals. : Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is effective to counter decreased relative left-frontal activation and associated suicidality in suicide attempters. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17426604

Assessment of spirituality and its relevance to addiction treatment. : Spiritual orientation is relevant to recovery in many individuals. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17574800