Our artistically creating and inventing outward works of beauty and communication mimics the big bang. The fact that all of this amazing, breathtaking design, by hand and by nature, is rooted in a mere few elements being combined in novel ways means in some sense we’re being duped. A beautiful head of fractal-shaped cauliflower is […]
Imagine a world where things don’t remind us of other things. Where we don’t greet each other as memories and so memories are not things and neither are the people in front of us. Relationships in the moment, not prefaced with memory. A mind that does not remind. Psychologists tell us that psychopaths see people […]
Those of us who want to do good works in the world may say we are giving selflessly, but if it’s born of a desire to do goodself then is it selfless? If it’s a choice that we could “grow out of” or change our minds about when it becomes an inconvenience or an impediment […]
We have a word for the love of wisdom and it is “philosophy.” But only the unwise love wisdom, for the source of wisdom is not outside of you. Wisdom becomes knowledge, becomes an externally communicated mental construct, for those not emanating wisdom. Wisdom becomes an it, a something you collect and marvel over, not […]
Many of us are enamored with impressionists, actors, comedians, and our one funny uncle who can do impressions of politicians well. A great impression of someone is like a magic trick. A great impression includes voice, body language, intention, and an understanding of the victim—I mean honoree’s inner voice. To be impersonated is considered an […]
DISCLAIMER: The following does not describe all researchers and searchers at the outset of their journeys, but enough of ‘em to make the end point. No one searching for anything was harmed in the writing of this essay. Not even Bono who still hasn’t found what he’s looking for. The difference between searchers and researchers […]
NOTE: I’ve been working on this one for a while to publish it this week. It is in no way related to the politically-motivated attacks perpetrated by conservative terrorists in America over the course of the previous week. There is an odd truth to the term “liberal elite” when it is used to pit uneducated […]
We push and we push, in various ways, through our science and our not-so-science. We push to the outer limits of the universe, discovering what’s possible, inventing around it and through it, in search of… in search of…. In search of what? In search of someone or something to communicate with. Aliens. Life. Intelligence. But […]
We want to be known. This is why being a televised person in a plugged-in culture is so appealing. It’s why school shootings happen. It’s why we leave suicide notes. It’s why social media “likes” are replacing affection and praise. We want to be known by God, not understand ourselves as Oneself behind the dualistic […]
On the one hand, Truth is uncompromising. On the other hand, you have the free will choice to completely ignore it. What’s this about? Truth is living. Truth is the action of one who is God-alive. So there is no compromise in how such a one behaves and what such a one does in the […]