• The Faith Machines

    What’s the deal with faith?  Why are we surrounded by the seen, the felt, the testable and the touchable, and yet are required to believe in things that are not seen in order to make our dreams realized?  In the Abrahamic religious traditions, we’re told that we must have faith.  Jesus spoke again and again, […]

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  • The One without Hands

    What if Creator finds expression for itself in its created?  What if it can see the work of its hands only through our hands?  Of all the universe’s wonders, of all the planets the Ineffable Self has forged in the furnaces of stars, the stars which it smelted in the crucible of galactic hearts, still, […]

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  • The Pictures in my Mind

    I resist change.  Fear closes me off from openness to change.  As I was driving through the suburbs today, I saw an airliner gliding across the sky.  Behind it, a V of Canada geese seemed to follow it just behind.  Of course, the plane was much higher than and farther from the geese than it […]

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  • Plaque Buildup

    I have this habit of posting inspirational messages to myself when I’m in a good mood:  Putting up a plaque in the hallway emblazoned with a famous saying; plastering my bathroom mirror with affirmations; push-pinning my corkboard to death.  The steam from my showers licks at the adhesive in the tape and the affirmation or […]

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  • The Prize

    Regardless of who you are, how close or how far away you feel from your God, the number of people who consider you important, or how much you’ve acquired before you go, even whether history remembers you . . . Once you’ve died, it all fades into insignificance.

    So why let all your stuff upset you?  […]

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  • The Road Back

    In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the late Joseph Campbell describes the journey which the mythic hero experiences.  A pivotal time comes when the hero has seized the sword of their destiny and undertakes a long, grim voyage to meet their nemesis for a final battle.  In The Writer’s Journey, Hollywood story consultant, Chris […]

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  • The Simulant Metaphor

    Throughout history, humanity has searched for metaphors to communicate its current understanding of the way the universe works.  In the European medieval period, when we assumed that the earth was the center of the cosmos, the universe was depicted as a series of concentric spheres which were thought to surround the earth.  During the Enlightenment, […]

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  • Eternity Cannot Know Itself

    According to some theorists, the moment the universe, or reality, becomes a whole, it is only part of the next moment’s totality.  Ever greater wholes are achieved in each moment, so that the universe is infinite expansion.  The cosmos inflates endlessly in each instant, so that the next moment is infinitely greater than the universe […]

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  • The Impostors Good and Evil

    To speak of accurate perceptions points to an immediate problem.  The fact that we feel the need to speak of things in terms of ‘accurate’ or ‘inaccurate’ leads to the conclusion that perhaps we cannot really know essential truths.  In reality, these terms—accurate and inaccurate, right and wrong —are unnecessary.

    The ultimate is not more right, […]

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  • Undream

    Does my soul drop down into an abyssal sleep, one without dreams, a slumber that lasts forever, once it lays my body down?  I had that question in mind when I looked up from my desk and spotted the title on the spine of the movie’s jacket – The Big Sleep.  For purposes of confirmation, […]

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