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 June 4, 2015  I look far above, into the mask-faces of these old lies — the mandate of pain, the sentence of death, the shoreless ocean of blame and guilt that salts their wounds — and I ask the dark woman beside me to collapse their plastic towers and burn their bodies as they fall. The…

 January 25, 2014  Hawking has changed his mind again about black holes (or more specifically, event horizons). He is an example of a great scientist: a probing, inquiring, restless, and ceaselessly open mind. Pure scientists are also seekers — not seekers of government grants or Nobel gold, but of a clearer and deeper understanding. Great teachers of self-realization…

 March 11, 2014  Last year’s povertywas not real poverty.This year’s povertyis poverty indeed.(an old Zen poem) I’d like you to stay with this talk (below) by Alan Watts through to the end and try to address his questions within yourself. It is about business, so no matter how you make your living — and even…

 May 10, 2013  I could make a very strong argument, based purely on philosophical reasoning, about the urgency for a new conception of spirituality. Briefly put, it is about making religion promulgate sanity rather than salvation; transforming its mission from saving the soul to healing the psyche. If I am healthy in this life, I…

 July 13, 2014  There are lessons, teachings, all around and within us. They are present continually, the flow never stops. It only appears to dry up when we tune it out. But whenever we are open to it, our bodies and our lives carry messages in virtually every moment. One choice we have to make…

 February 19, 2013  The mind of ambition inhibits genuine growth. To obsess on gaining the heights not only impairs but actually precludes the self-awareness essential to growth. The incessant climb makes us dizzy, and finally blind. Consider for a moment the spiritual geography of the Judeo-Christian religion: would not Satan have a better and clearer…

 March 7, 2013  So, who’s the cute little teddy-robot, and how did he lose his head? Well, if you follow APOD, then you know that this is an electron micrograph of a tardigrade, or water bear — that is, a living creature on this living Earth. This one was observed on a piece of moss. The…

December 25, 2012 It has been, in many respects, a year of night. No doubt our human species has had its share of it at large — unceasing and expanding war, recession, and our continuing ignorance of the environmental destruction that could fatally undermine the habitability of our planetary home by the end of this…

 May 5, 2014  Whenever I read over some of the content I post here, it occurs to me that I frequently fail to follow my own best advice. But any teacher or pundit or writer worth his salt should be able to make that admission; and those who don’t are to be given a wide…

 May 1, 2014  I am drawn toward the invisible realm, toward the quantum reality that lives beneath the appearances amid which we strive and struggle. True, I play the game: work, money, human interaction. I go to meetings; try to pay enough attention to finance to get by; I follow the news and especially sports…