Ann Kreilkamp | December 2, 2013 

Culled from talks by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, aka “Osho,” a guru and Pied Piper who moved a few of my close friends in the early ’70s to pick up and move to his ashram in Poona, India, where he lived with thousands of followers until migrating en masse to Oregon, a move that started him, and the culture grew in his presence,  on the road to what appeared to be an ignominious end.

But who knows? Osho felt, to me, like a trickster. I love his books, though no one ever persuaded me to join the parade. 

I always especially appreciated Osho’s view that the way to “transcend” the emotions is to fully feel them — to the point where they dissolve, and I have practiced this method for letting go of attachment and desire for decades.  The book I published about my grieving process after my husband Jeff Joel died, This Vast Being: A Voyage through Grief and Exaltation, is testament this way of moving through whatever it is that would otherwise, make us stuck. In order to feel truly alive, we must process death, over and over and over again. Let go. Let go. 

DECEMBER 2, 2013  The Creator Writings

In this moment, you may not understand all of what you are learning. But, one day very soon, everything will click and all of thoseunintelligible things that seemed so distant will find a home as a part of you. This is the reason The Universe is always teaching and, in turn, learning from you. ~ Creator

CHANCE OF STORMS: NOAA forecasters estimate a 25% chance of polar geomagnetic storms on Dec. 2nd when a CME might deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras. Aurora alerts: text, voice

COMET ISON, R.I.P.: Following its Thanksgiving Day brush with solar fire, sundiving Comet ISON is now just a cloud of dust. Among experts, a consensus is building that the comet broke apart shortly before perihelion (closest approach to the sun). In the movie, note how rapidly the comet fades just before it vanishes behind the occulting disk of the SOHO coronagraph:

After perihelion, the comet emerges as a diffuse remnant of its former self. No one knows for sure what is inside that fan-shaped cloud. Possibilities include a small remnant nucleus or a "rubble pile" of furiously vaporizing fragments. By the end of the day on Nov. 28th, Comet ISON was spent.

As of Dec. 2nd, the cloud of debris is no brighter than a star of approximately 8th magnitude. Experienced astrophotographers might be able to capture the comet's fading "ghost" in the pre-dawn sky of early December, but a naked-eye spectacle is out of the question.