Have you ever noticed how many people balk at the notion of being still? They’re always on the move, on the go, making plans, and scheming. They’re trying to win each other over with arguments and rationalized beliefs that don’t actually make sense. Nonsense dressed up as the sensible, the civil. And they struggle in […]
He was world famous, considered by many a spiritual teacher. He certainly talked the talk that brought audiences to tears of recognition and, to an extent, walked the walk. His life partner considered herself to be living a spiritual life, which seemed to consist of projecting an aliveness of her own imagining onto things in […]
A confused mind is not one that does not know, it is one that thinks it does when it doesn’t. One who does not know and says, “I’m confused,” is one with an open mind. You cannot be confused about something you have no experience of. You can be uncertain when you are given conflicting […]
He talks about back in the day. Thousands of years ago, back in the day. The powers we had. The wizard wars. Balls of energy shot through the air by people with deep knowledge of an inner world we’ve locked behind prison bars of scripture. If the ancient times sound familiar, sound modern and post-modern, […]
She said she can achieve nothingness, but no change results from it and so her mind eventually wanders. By this she meant that she can be thoughtless—not an image or a word drifting into awareness. And still… nothing. Not the nothing of Truth, but the nothing of anticipation followed by the letdown of unfulfilled expectation. […]
One frustration that used to plague me was when friends and not-so-friendlies would get upset with me for stating opinions without prefacing them with, “In my opinion….” Did they not know it was my opinion? If it’s not a fact (or Truth) and it’s squawking from my mouth, isn’t it obviously my opinion? Why did […]
Like a psychology teacher, she gives public talks on treating sorrow. Every conflict is a growth moment if we allow it; every enemy is an ally in disguise. Her implication is that life is a war, a struggle, and that is a good thing because it is through conflict resolution that we grow spiritually. This […]
Beware the aliens who claim to come in peace, say the movies, it’s a Trojan horse of a lie. But what about when humans say it? Humans living through a vision of separate selves, agendas unknown, the checklist of common fears? If you say you are peaceful, you are not peaceful in the way you […]
The other day I posted on Facebook what I thought was a funny observation from my wife about a mutual acquaintance. I wrote: Carol says, “You know, she better hope this New Age movement never ends, or that’s it for her. You can be really dumb and people think you’re really deep.” And we laugh […]
Good, smart science fiction provokes conversations about the nature of reality, the nature of us, and/or our potential future. Good sci fi lubricates the wheels of imagination, gets them spinning, and inspires more of itself within the receptive audience. It may make us feel like we’re on the cusp of something. Something great. A discovery […]