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Beautiful Description

eric mccarty
3 min readJun 26, 2022

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Beautiful Description — Headless Now — Prose Poem — Moca McCarty Photo

Beautiful description:

materialism fascinates me in an almost magical way, indeed, perhaps of the many views of mind and nature it’s the most magical thinking of all, almost proof really, that something truly holy is going on here. By this I don’t mean the notion of God in any organizing sense, but more of an inherent sense of some intelligent intent deep within the material of the world, that somehow matter is drawn to give life, and more so, giving rise to our awareness of it all. Materialism is a beautiful description of reality, an explanation of my existence just as fascinating as if something holy were involved.

not being a philosopher nor a scientist, my consideration of this topic is purely of my own speculation, and is really no more of an exercise of creative morning writing. I have no stake in being right or wrong in any philosophical point of view, and although my own tendency of thought leans towards a more consciousness first and perhaps only school, I’m more truly unattached to any theory of the world. The summary of my only real philosophy is that I surely don’t know anything for certain concerning the mystery of the world.

but I write for my own enjoyment, whatever current subject holds my fascination, and this morning the play of matter seems to be on my mind, materialism, that the chemical reaction of an object leads to the creation of…

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eric mccarty
eric mccarty

Written by eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student

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