by Lynn Jericho | Mar 24, 2011 | Substack, Wisdom of Selfhood
March 25, 2011 At the beginning of the week, my inbox was full of beautiful writings about the Vernal Equinox, Ostara, and Spring and I had thought about offering my own thoughts on the new season. The Annunciation But a few weeks ago, as the Cherry...
by Lynn Jericho | Sep 19, 2010 | Substack, Wisdom of Selfhood
The Sense of EgoOf the four mysterious senses of Love, hearing, word, thought and Ego, the Ego sense is the most subtly exquisite (ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense [carefully ascertained, precise] ): from Latin exquisit- ‘sought out,’ from the verb exquirere,...
by Lynn Jericho | Sep 11, 2010 | Substack, Wisdom of Selfhood
The Sense of Thought or MeaningLike the word sense, the sense of thought is difficult to describe and imagine. I struggled to write this and suspect you will struggle to make sense of it all. The three “highest” senses of word, thought and...
by Lynn Jericho | Sep 11, 2010 | Substack, Wisdom of Selfhood
We perceive over 10000 different odors and an seemingly infinite number of combinations. And with each breath we smell the scent combinations of whatever is around us. Though we don’t notice all the smells, we are making decisions about them all the...
by Lynn Jericho | Sep 4, 2010 | Substack, Wisdom of Selfhood
The Sense of WordI was with my grandson for a month, a very vocal month. For a couple of weeks, as he turned six months old, he was delighting in the sounds he could make. From grunts to squeals he was learning how to master the range of his voicebox. On...
by Lynn Jericho | Aug 28, 2010 | Substack, Wisdom of Selfhood
I want to begin with saying what the sense of hearing is not! It is not the perception of words or ideas. Hearing is just the perception of sound waves, acoustic events. In this message I want to share with you four distinctions I find through my...