Why The Zoo Fence? One night in 1974, in a fishing camp on the windward side of Molokai in the Hawaiian Islands, we had a dream about publishing a journal called The Zoo Fence. The name probably originated from the practice of the Honolulu Zoo to allow artists to display their artwork on the zoo fence along Monsarrat Avenue in Waikiki. But beyond that, who knows what the subconscious meant by the phrase! In any case, it made sense in the dream, and when, more than two decades later, The Laughing Cat decided to issue a newsletter which evolved into this website, the choice of a name seemed already to have been made.
One day in Eden, Adam sees Eve for the first
time.
“I am Adam,” he says to her.
“Yes, I know,” Eve replies, “so am
I.”
In The Beginning Chapter 4
The Lord is my Shepherd,
I shall not whine.©
The Universe is a Portrait of God
perceived by us as a landscape
composed of you, me, places, events,
planets, stars, galaxies, dreams, and
assorted out-of-this world
infinite stuff.
TZF
In the beginning, we create, and then throughout our lives we sustain, our sense of self by perceiving ourselves as separate and apart from others. That is, we create the appearance of a separate self, which each of us calls “me” and “my life,” by establishing artificial personal boundaries beyond which everything else is perceived as “not me.” This process of personal identification, which we might call the human condition, is a product of the “I-Thought,” the ego, by which we define ourselves for ourselves by the statement, ”I am this and not that.” The first cousin of the I-Thought is the my-thought, which informs us “This is mine, not yours.”
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