Aubrey Lieberman Selected Poems and Essays

  Hear Ye Excuse me but I have to put on my hearing aids and go out into the world I have to listen to all sides of every story while I can still hear my heartbeat I have to listen to all that surrounds me to all that surrounds the earth the solar system the galaxy the universe and the multiverse I have to see and smell and taste and feel all of the forces which enable life And when I return  I will listen again  to the voice of the person standing next to me to all the voices of all of the people and all of the creatures and of all creations And if I don't my heart will stop beating Aubrey Lieberman  6/15/25

  Sticky Mittens   Developmental psychologists have put sticky mittens on baby hands, with which the tiny humans were able to grasp much more effectively, enabling them to do things they were previously thought to be incapable of. The researchers concluded that neural connectivity during early life exceeded the physical constraints imposed by the little hands. A human adult given sticky mittens, might climb a skyscraper, given wings, fly like a bird, given scuba gear, swim like a fish, given a telescope, explore the galaxies, given a microscope, enter the earths microbiome, given vibrating strings, makes celestial music, given a board and chalk, write the equations which govern life and the universe. Human general intelligence is the sticky mitten which enables us to grasp almost anything, even to make tools to enhance our intelligence beyond the limits we can imagine now. Perhaps we will collectively become smart enough to escape our evolutionary constraints, enabling kindnes...