As you may have noticed, I’ve been slow to produce anything for this website in the past few weeks. That’s because Carol and I bought eight ducklings, a mere week from hatching. They were contented to live in a long, black bin sitting in the bathtub of the guest bedroom. Contented, that is, for a […]
It’s not often that I bother writing protracted “spiritual” posts on Facebook anymore, because they tend to fall on blurry eyes, but yesterday I decided to go with the flow and see what comes out and who comes alive in the comments thread. This is what came out: The real miracle of life is that […]
When I was a wee young lad of about 8 or 9 or 10, and probably all three, I lost myself in gutter puddles on the side of the street next to my family’s apartment in Brockton, Massachusetts. How the neighborhood children and I delighted in large trucks dousing us with muddy brown tidal waves […]
Have you ever wondered why obscurity and Truth go hand in hand when it comes to articulating Truth? Like, we’re not even talkin’ the riddle nature of koans but simply trying to speak Truth, or speak about it from an authentic depth of experience, as opposed to a depth of knowledge. Shouldn’t clarity be… you […]
I just watched a video explaining how LSD works. The explanation took the materialist perspective which says our bodies love to fill in the blanks within perception, which creates meaning. But if meaning is meaningless, just a thin coat of paint bridging two established portraits, then what is the materialist reason for us having evolved […]
Me lovely wife CaroI and I had a place built where we can bring in speakers and others to give workshops. I recently gave two talks about my “high strangeness” experiences and how they transitioned into “new normal” experiences. When I speak publicly I don’t mind taking questions here and there throughout, if something is […]
Buddha was a wealthy royal. Jesus was self-aware enough to know he was experiencing being human. So, in their early lives they didn’t know suffering the way common people did. That was part of the gig—finding out. But you can’t find out if you’ve always got a backup plan in your hip pocket, like returning […]
It dawns on me this morning that so many of us see our lives in chaos, our personal lives and what we call “the world.” But do we really mean the world? The rest of the world seems to be doing just fine, thank you very much, it’s human societies, we mean, that are in […]
Finally met a man who has spent half a lifetime studying under a kundalini master. Ponder than a moment. Half a lifetime? What hasn’t he been taught that he needs to stay the pupil in his 50s? Turns out, a lot, for he returns again and again, making the long flight from Hawaii to Illinois, […]
Few of us enjoy being alone with ourselves because nobody likes a liar. Cue cell phone lights and entertainment. Cue talking about ourselves to other people as though we’re relating. More like, if we can convince them we’re real, maybe we will feel it. We so fear being alone that we shun the actions of […]