psychological time

Covid has spiked so badly in the USA that we’re receiving emergency warnings on our cell phones not to go out. The necessity of physical isolation makes daily contact with…

The idea of “social entrepreneurs” has been around for a few decades, and though second-rate thinkers believe it’s a model for the future, it belongs to the past.

“Humans are the pinnacle of creation.” That idea has long been discredited. But where do humans fit in the universe, and why we don’t we fit in nature on earth?

Contemplatives usually want nothing to do with political activism, and activists usually want nothing to do with the contemplative life.

All systems of meditation are based on a false premise—that of control. The essence of any system, technique or method is control. Therefore all systems and methods of meditation are antithetical to meditation.

The current thinking in human evolution is that fully modern humans migrated from Africa somewhere between 50-100,000 years ago. As the crisis of consciousness intensifies, one is compelled to ask:…

Overhanging the gorge are great angular outcroppings of volcanic rock–solid and sharp edged extrusions protruding from the gently sloping grasslands behind them. Some have huge slabs balanced on top, looking…

The brain stores memories—traces of experience—automatically. Most aren’t just unnecessary; they’re detrimental to seeing and being. They become the encrustations of experience as we age. Is that inevitable?