The Brown Book Commentaries

PAGE 108
―The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the
beginning.‖ ~ Ivy Baker Priest
Yes, it does seem that certain ―Life Lessons‖ continually find us over & over & over again until
we either master them or die trying, though that apparent Truth is not the one referenced here … I
have placed Ms. Priest‘s quote here to intimate another Truth – the Truth that all that we truly need
to know we have essentially always known; that the ―facts‖ and conventional norms we learn as
children and young adults might help us to survive in our primitive human societies, and yet they
most certainly do not in-Courage us to fully Live the lives we have been given. That information –
how to fully and potently immerse ourselves into the lives of others – we have known since our
latter days in the womb, and our human journey is not to learn it all, but to unlearn the information
that is keeping us from remembering it.
Image 281 (Page 108a - top left) … This is a 1944 dime imprinted with what
is thought to be Hermes or Mercury (the celestial patron of commerce, travel,
communication, and material wealth), though in reality it depicts Lady Liberty
wearing a winged cap to symbolize freedom of thought. The back of the
dime, ironically enough, is blazoned with a symbol called a ―fasces‖, a
bundle of sticks representing governmental authority & strength in unified
numbers – two things that become especially viable when freedom of
thought is purposefully or incidentally limited …
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