{"id":5386,"date":"2017-07-01T06:27:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T06:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/07\/01\/2017-big-unplug-begins-today\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T06:27:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T06:27:47","slug":"2017-big-unplug-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/07\/01\/2017-big-unplug-begins-today\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 ‘Big Unplug’ Begins Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Shut<\/a>I'll be offline and incommunicado for the month of July. The plan is for normal operations to resume on or about 1 August.<\/span><\/p>\n

I ask my valued correspondents to refrain from sending me any links to events of the day or commentary thereon.  I am going on a 'news fast' which is even more salutary for the soul than a food fast is for the body.<\/span><\/p>\n

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From time to time we should devote special time to be still and listen beyond the human horizon.  Modern man, crazed little hustler and  self-absorbed chatterbox that he is, needs to enter his depths and listen.<\/span><\/p>\n

"Be still, and know that I am God."  (Psalm 46:10)<\/span><\/p>\n

"Man is a stream whose source is hidden." (Emerson) This beautifully crafted observation sets us a task: Swim upstream to the Source of one's out-bound consciousness where one will draw close to the Divine Principle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Noli foras ire, in te ipsum reddi; in interiore homine habitat veritas<\/em>.  "The truth dwells in the inner man; don't go outside yourself: return within." (St. Augustine) <\/span><\/p>\n

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I'll be offline and incommunicado for the month of July. The plan is for normal operations to resume on or about 1 August. I ask my valued correspondents to refrain from sending me any links to events of the day or commentary thereon.  I am going on a 'news fast' which is even more salutary … Continue reading “2017 ‘Big Unplug’ Begins Today”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}