cosmic intelligence

There is a canyon beyond town where, if you go with a humble heart and silent mind, you can feel the presence of indigenous peoples who experienced the sacredness of…

‘Higher thought’ is an extremely powerful evolutionary adaptation, allowing humans to create and build all the things in the world. But we idolize it and project it onto the universe,…

In the West, and especially in America, our entire concept of the individual has to be redefined at the emotional level. As things are, we’re not in-dividuals; we are dividuals.

A friend from philosophy grad school days tells me about how he was contacted recently by a scam-publishing outfit, offering to publish a book they proposed. All he had to…

It’s often said that to be productive and happy, a person has to feel part of something larger than her or himself, and serve that larger thing with a true…

How are terrorism and climate change related? Are they two facets of the same crisis facing humanity?

It must be summer, because a new spate of apocalyptic movies has arrived. But though reviewers take comfort in their long and ludicrous history, there’s something different this year. The…