Drama queens. Am I right? Need I say more? Okay, I’ll say more. Specifically, I’ll say this: For drama queens, in life the journey is not the thing. Dissolving altogether, thus closing the script of your current life, is definitely not in the cards. Being in love with yourself as the character in turmoil is […]
Have you ever noticed how confident we feel when we live in agreement, even when the agreement is false? It’s easy to see in other cultures, right? The ones we consider barbaric or undemocratic. But it’s much harder to see at home, within ourselves, mainly because we’re so focused out there. A pack of liars […]
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 […]