Who would have thought that a century ago, a couple of dogs, a buzzer, and a psychologist would uncover and demonstrate the means by which life as we know it can be destroyed? A simple principle from behavioral psychology may illuminate forces that are accelerating current global challenges. Read more
Only now did I understand that most of my dog Kayla’s fear was that she had detected, long before I had, that we were about to jump dimensions, to step through the veil into a “Caol Áit." Read more
Life is not about reaching a destination, nor yet of hunkering down awaiting salvation. Life is a great journey in which dreams of destinations are merely the seductress enticing us to let go of our fears. Read more
Today, I came across a most exotic piece of evidence. I waded upstream from pool to pool. Sometimes the water just reached mid calf, sometimes it was chest high. Then I noticed a bleached pig skull on a branch six feet above the water. Read more
Why do some conversations seem to flow easily, while others careen off the cliff faster than we can intercede? So much of what feels satisfying/empowering or isolating/troubling in life seems to be related to the positive or negative emotions resulting from our conversations with each other. What are we missing? Read more
We read in Luke's Gospel that Jesus grew in wisdom and grace. but, wasn’t Jesus divine? Wasn’t he God-incarnate? Wasn’t he God’s only son? Ipso facto, he must have been omniscient and, if so, why would he have needed to grow in wisdom and in grace? Read more
Enlightenment is the ultimate human level of higher consciousness. It is also the most intriguing change of all. There are those who seek it and never find it. Others gradually reach it after years of spiritual practice. And others who experience an instantaneous awakening, Read more
There is an important difference between free will – the ability to do as I please – and freedom – the ability to do as pleases God. Free will is a faculty that can be used for good or bad. Freedom, on the other hand, is always good because it is the essence of the soul and the object of enlightenment. Read more
At times the sense of being alone can make one yearn to forget that feeling of alienation. We want to lose ourselves, to feel an identity with others and belong. And so people drink. Or do drugs. Anything to forget themselves, to shake that horrible sense of a solitary existence. There is a better way. Read more
How did the three disciples – or Jesus for that matter – recognize Moses or Elijah? Photography was 1,800 years in the future and there were no graven or visual representations of either man available. What actually happened on Mount Thabor? Was the Transfiguration a dream? A vision? Read more
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