Meditations

This is the second “hinge of history” in my lifetime. I didn’t think I’d live to see another, after the simultaneous collapse of the USSR economically and politically, and the…

Soon after I left my family in Michigan and moved to California at 20, I went on a memorable 4-night backpacking trip with the Sierra Club into the High Sierras.…

Mainstream media hacks are spewing ever-increasing twaddle. It’s not enough that the MSM was instrumental in producing President Frankenstein by hewing to the potholed roads of the status quo, and…

The wind gusted all day today, keeping the temperature unseasonably low, and the foothills splendidly clear. The creek still runs cold, clear and fast, and it was good to sit…

I’ve been encountering so much darkness lately through what I call conduits (people that conduct evil as easily as copper conducts electricity) that I’ve been asking: Is there effectively only…

My meditation practice, which began with an explosive insight in my late-teens, before I knew anything about Buddhism (or meditation for that matter), appears Buddhist. It’s the antithesis of sitting…

A serious consideration of extraterrestrial life by the scientific community is merging with the public’s perennial fascination on the subject. Scientists, despite often being brilliant in their fields, are saying…

There was a time when Americans feared and detested mobs. Indeed, it was part of our mythology. Now we’re ruled by a hard-core 40% who refuse to hear or see…