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Previously, I published a book, The Non-Identity Crisis—The crisis that endangers our worl d. The topic of the book concerns a common mis...

Moving mountains. The Buddha said we all suffer because we attach ourselves to ephemeral things: here today, gone tomorrow. Attachment to in...

The tides of transformation. Before getting too far into my topic, first, let me speak about how we all perceive the physical world wit...

Who Dat? Our sense of who and what we are determines how we relate to the world. In a prior post , I stuck a little toe into the great...

Nearly 400 years have passed since the great Scottish poet, Robert Burns, offered the words, “O would some power the gift to give us to se...

The kingdom of magic. Many years ago I had an experience, which irrevocably changed my life. When it happened I knew it was transformin...

In a mirror, e verything is reversed and all that can be seen is a reflection of something.   What is right out here is left in there. R...

By now you see the difference between a thought about things and the reality of things. One is abstract and the other isn’t, and the “isn’t...

“Is that all there is? Is that all there is?   If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing.  Let’s break out the booze and...

The amount of energy and consideration which routinely goes into the notion of personal identity is huge. It’s taken as a given that we k...

To a significant extent, our lives have become defined by “stuff.” The presumption is that the more stuff we possess, the better off we are....

Have you thought deeply about what it means to be conscious? We have invented a vast number of concepts to represent dimensions of life in ...