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December 2016

December 13, 2016
The priest said we should visit the Baby Jesus and bring him some gifts. I...
December 10, 2016
The creature who learns and transmits language, who builds civilizations, and who can manipulate physical...
December 07, 2016
He explained apologetically to me that they just needed someplace to rest awhile and then...

November 2016

November 29, 2016
The Book of Genesis, starts with the word “B’reshit”. But “B’reshit” does not mean “In...
November 22, 2016
Just the words "identity theft" can raise our anxiety level. But, there is a much...
November 15, 2016
What if you were to recognize that reality, this concatenation of concentric levels of life,...
November 08, 2016
Each one of us must attempt to find the ideal way to identify our Buddha...
November 02, 2016
For most of our history, since humans began thinking beyond the next meal or the...

October 2016

October 27, 2016
The human subject pausing from the mundane vicissitudes of waking existence to reflect even briefly...
October 13, 2016
Each of us comes with a unique story to tell, with a piece of the...
October 04, 2016
The Great Spirit spoke to him in a series of inner visions that rocked him...

September 2016

September 27, 2016
I have long been intrigued by the (perhaps naïve) fantasy that, somewhere upstream, most human...
September 20, 2016
I have spent a lifetime of earth-years preparing for death, but the preparation has been...
September 15, 2016
"The transformation in consciousness required to address global issues can be a joyful one, but...
September 06, 2016
Our sense of fairness is a basic part of us from our earliest memories. We...

August 2016

August 30, 2016
Just then the carriage lights went out for a few moments, as subway lights sometimes...
August 23, 2016
Are black holes in space the annihilators of matter they are reputed to be?
August 16, 2016
What is it that drives the seeming limitless, insatiable nature of greed?
August 09, 2016
In Gaelic, a Caol Áit (a thin place) is a location in which the veil...
August 03, 2016
A super-advanced being or civilization simply will not on the one hand have amazing powers...

July 2016

July 26, 2016
My God used to be very "sensible." As a boy I encountered him frequently. Every...
July 19, 2016
It is so difficult for us to imagine a love that is not confined to...
July 13, 2016
How are rationality and faith different? Can they co-exist in the human mind?
July 05, 2016
Violence is not inevitable in human nature, but neither is a willingness to quietly, politely...

June 2016

June 28, 2016
The illusion is not that the physical world does not exist; the illusion is that...
June 21, 2016
Lack of control and predictability often makes dreams disturbing, whereas the opposite enables waking "reality"...
June 15, 2016
For years, with each new tragedy, I had been telling myself that when things got...
June 14, 2016
The content of mindfulness, the visceral experience that accompanies mindfulness, is gratitude for life and...
June 07, 2016
“I don’t think I know you anymore. Maybe I never did.” When relationships end, these...

May 2016

May 31, 2016
Both the “Dark Ages” and Puritanical Protestantism had large shadow sides. Celtic spirituality provided the...
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