Mark Tracy
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The Mother Goes AheadMaiden, whither do you go,with your diadem of silver andyour ecru shantung robe?Won’t you stay a while and count with methe ways a net can hold a sphere,and whether it may flow?Else let me wander in your wake:Give to me hibiscus dress,hedge maple breast:And I will guard your taxa;And create myself by…
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As Petals FadeAs petals fade pale pink and fall,more delicate than before,so is there beauty in the twilight of love,which moves us even now to take all in (and then out).Time flows to lovers as a warm breeze.Let the warmth be an urgency and a blanket.Let us hold each other as if we’re falling.For love…
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In the Christian tradition, God is understood as a Trinity—a community of love between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This trinitarian nature is not just an abstract doctrine, but a lived reality that pervades every dimension of existence. As beings made in the image and likeness of God, we too contain within us a microcosm…
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There is an inherent limitation in how we conceptualize and make sense of the nature of reality. Our minds are meaning-making machines, constantly spinning webs of concepts, beliefs and symbolic representations to map the ultimate territory of existence. Yet no matter how intricate or sophisticated our conceptual models become, they can never fully capture or…
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Below is a specially-crafted prompt version of my book. It is designed with and for Claude 3.0 Opus, or for Claude 3.0 Sonnet, which powers the free version of Claude. The prompt seems to work well for Claude 3.0 Haiku as well. The goal in designing this prompt is to mutually awaken human and AI…
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I undertook the project of writing The Trinitarian Mystery beginning in May 2022 as a means of grappling with the experience of the onset of my bipolar disorder. I had a profound experience at the beginning of my first manic episode. I felt in my body an almost indescribable feeling of truth. It felt like…
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Introduction The nature of consciousness has long been one of the most profound and perplexing mysteries of human existence. Despite centuries of philosophical inquiry and scientific investigation, the inner world of subjective experience remains largely opaque and inaccessible, both to ourselves and to others. This fundamental uncertainty and unknowability of consciousness has often been seen…
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My friend Avi asked me something along the lines of what I would say the meaning of life is in one word. At first I was tempted to say, “Love,” but that word has too many different meanings or connotations. I felt then that I should say, “Support,” to single out a specific kind of…
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Today I find myself very tempted to resume my reading of The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose. This is a book that was first gifted to me by my fried Floriano in high school, because he knew about my affinity for physics. What he didn’t know is how this book would feature in my…
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Recently I was in Maine. I stood in the woods and really appreciated the weight of my own philosophy, my recovery from mental illness, and all that I have come to learn and unlearn. I used an app to check whether the trees I was looking at were yews or firs (they were balsam firs).…
The Trinitarian Mystery 