Who can explain the light in your dream?
The question was asked by the artist then known as Cat Stevens; the song was Sun/C79 on the Buddha and the Chocolate Box… [more]
The Spiritual Path
A question that I have asked myself on and off for so long that it has become something I’m just used to have hanging around… [more]
Why Religion?
The initial question was, I am sure: Why do I hurt? The initial question was not: Why do I laugh? for happiness is its… [more]
How Long is The Present?
Imagine this: The neutron star named “PSR J1748-2446ad” has a radius of 16 kilometers—which gives it, roughly, a diameter… [more]
Killing Time (Chronocide)
We must hate time, the way we kill it. At first blush, though, we don’t do this too often. Normally we only own up to… [more]
One Truth versus Many
Here we are. Though some may dispute that statement, I believe that the majority of us would agree: we are here. If… [more]
We All Die
Later, rather than sooner, that is my hope anyway. But still, the fact remains indifferently true: there is not a single… [more]
Good health is the single gravest threat to our national economy
Imagine this: All Americans, every man, woman and child have left their self-destructive food habits behind and are now… [more]
Who can explain the light in your dream?
The question was asked by the artist then known as Cat Stevens; the song was Sun/C79 on the Buddha and the Chocolate Box album (or cassette, then, for me). The question always rang true, extremely true. For who or what does explain the light in your dream? The brain—the supposed seat of our “selves” whether awake or asleep—strikes me as a very moist, dark place, very void of light. Still, most dreams are very lit indeed. Whose light? Whose energy? Fair … [Read More]
The Spiritual Path
A question that I have asked myself on and off for so long that it has become something I’m just used to have hanging around has been nudging me more and more as of late. And that question is: On this little planet of ours, why are so few of us following a spiritual path? Surely, most of us, at one point or another, must have realized—with lesser or greater clarity—that this cannot be all there’s to it: Be born, grow up, grow old, then die. And, as surely, have … [Read More]
Why Religion?
The initial question was, I am sure: Why do I hurt? The initial question was not: Why do I laugh? for happiness is its own answer, and raises no questions. I am convinced that were there no suffering in this world, there would be no Religion. There would be no need for that balm. Perhaps I can even extend this to: Were there no suffering in this world, there would be no Philosophy, nor Science either—for who would be curious about anything in a world of … [Read More]
How Long is The Present?
Imagine this: The neutron star named “PSR J1748-2446ad” has a radius of 16 kilometers—which gives it, roughly, a diameter of 20 miles—and weighs in at about twice our sun. And it spins. Fast. Very fast. It is in fact the fastest spinning pulsar known to astronomy at 716 Hz, which means to say that is spins 716 revolutions in a second (or that each spin is 0.0013959548 seconds long). As a frame of reference, a regular kitchen blender usually spins at between … [Read More]
Killing Time (Chronocide)
We must hate time, the way we kill it. At first blush, though, we don’t do this too often. Normally we only own up to our chronocide when we’re waiting for someone or something, say a bus that’s late, or a tardy dinner date. Something or someone you just can’t wait for to happen, arrive, appear. Only there are these many minutes, hours, days until then, all of which time has to be killed, and the sooner and more thoroughly the better. Yes, we admit, then we’re … [Read More]
One Truth versus Many
Here we are. Though some may dispute that statement, I believe that the majority of us would agree: we are here. If we’re in synch so far, then try this on for another statement: we are here, therefore we came to be here through a specific series of events; through one, single chain of occurrences. Not two, or three, or a hundred series or chains of events, no: One series of events. That series, or chain, might include (and probably does) millions, billions, … [Read More]
We All Die
Later, rather than sooner, that is my hope anyway. But still, the fact remains indifferently true: there is not a single person on this planet who is not going to die; this while the majority lives on—wasting what time they have—secure in his or her immortality. Of course, there is no need to turn morbid about it, or to dwell on it, but unless we are utterly convinced that this is all there is to it, and that all these pesky, unanswerable questions are just that, pesky … [Read More]
Good health is the single gravest threat to our national economy
Imagine this: All Americans, every man, woman and child have left their self-destructive food habits behind and are now settled in on a mostly vegan regimen, much like the one outlined in, say, Fuhrman’s Eat to Live. As a consequence, gone is obesity, gone is overweight, gone is the host of afflictions and illnesses attendant to those conditions, including digestive problems, skin problems, allergies, asthma, you name it; gone are all those disorders that a healthy body … [Read More]