These short reflections and insights range in length from twitter-length to short essays. They’re free, so what’ve you got to lose but a few moments?
What’re You Waiting For?
Most people seek the exceptional event, the peak experience, not realizing that every event is exceptional, from the repulsion of watching the spider spin the beetle in its silk, to going to the john. Every experience is peak. To live in the moment is to be fascinated with what is. It’s to […]
You are a spiritual being having a human experience. Maybe you’ve heard that before. If it’s true that perfect spiritual beings decided to experience imperfection, why would angels want to become beasts?
Maybe love wanted something imperfect to embrace, or it wouldn’t know itself as love. Unless it had something unloving to exalt, it wouldn’t be […]
The self is a necessary fiction. I need a name and a birth date to function on planet earth. I have particular characteristics, both in a bodily sense and in terms of personality, both of which distinguish me from every other being on this planet. I have a self. But am I self?
The more I […]
I have some good news, and some bad news. Which do you want first? I always want the bad news first, so that’s what you’ll get. OK, the bad news is there is a hell.
But the good news is that it’s not as bad as you might think. It’s not where you think it is, […]
The ability to choose is predicated on the existence of time. Without time, there is no need, and no ability, to choose anything because everything stays the same. Time only exists to measure change. Time exists to allow me to jump back into a state of changelessness, in which there is no suffering. I choose, […]
A friend died recently. Not a good death. If you heard the circumstances and you believed in reincarnation, you might conclude that the man might need to come back and finish on a higher note.
I can’t judge that. I don’t have enough information to know whether people whose lives end in suicide or alcoholism need […]
This moment is the convergence, the culmination of every decision you’ve ever made. Your whole life intersects right here, right now. It’s the important moment of your life. You have brought you here, and nothing you’ve done has ever been by accident. There are no accidents. There are no mistakes, not in the grander scheme. […]
A lot of us (myself included) have spent a much time looking up to the heavens and waiting for the extraterrestrial object, maybe watching a movie or TV series on UFO’s, reading books on UAP phenomenon. I’ve wished for contact, hoped for rescue, both for myself and for humanity, by a superintelligent, overly wise big […]
We are a limitless being which chose to live itself as a multitude of limited creatures. In our limited states, we can no longer fathom what it means to be infinite.
This doesn’t mean that we’ve lost our capacity for infinitude, or that we’re forever condemned to live and die and live and die again as […]
A lot of the arguments against the existence of God center around what Freud called wish fulfillment, the idea that we want something – relief from suffering, the reward of an afterlife – to be true. Therefore, we imagine it to be true. We invent a God.
One doesn’t have to look far back into history […]