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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I was watching a segment of some MSNBC political show where host/analyst Steve Kornacki was doing his favorite thing: creating completely unnecessary visual aids for the audience to follow along. In this case, he was drawing on a map of Ohio to delineate voting districts. He drew a square over one and then two adjacent […]
What makes Mystery such a mystery? Have you ever wondered that? And why do mysteries feel so pedestrian, boring, really, compared to Mystery with a capital M? Is it because mysteries are unalive questions, answers waiting to happen? Are riddles temporary highs that, once solved, drop us back into our normal, unengaging lives? A mystery […]
He defended a recent article about a team of scientists who want to drill down into Earth’s mantle for the first time because they believe they have the means to do it. For him that is reason enough to try. It is enough because knowledge is all-important; furthering our understanding of how the world works […]
What comes to mind when you think of the miracle of life? Babies being born from nothing into everything? The interplay between species in a complex web of life? The mystery of the universe itself? Isn’t the underlying miracle of life existence? Most, if not all, things in life bear meticulous design, inherent action, and […]
Common is the person who seeks eternal life by denying death. That is what the seeker-as-self is for. One roams the earth for a magical elixir of eternal life. Not finding it, such a one turns to technology, to merge with machines and become a spirit in one. One calls the ability to trade organic […]
In April, 2017, National Geographic magazine ran a cover story titled, How Humans Are Shaping Our Own Evolution. It focuses on how technology is currently being used, and projected to be used in the near future, to speed up and design our evolution. The eventual forevermore union of biology and technology is what’s called the […]
…. [T]he scientific credo of our time has developed a superstitious phobia about fantasy, but the real is what works. —Carl Jung If you read the Lessons With Nature essay, Clouds: The Perfect Metaphor Revised, you may recall this line: “The rarity of shared experience makes it feel more magical, more real when it happens.” […]