Meditations

In his book, ”The Neanderthal’s Necklace,” Juan Luis Arsuaga, a paleo-anthropologist and professor at the University of Madrid, provides a cogent discussion of consciousness. Arsuaga poses a provocative question in…

Back when there was a real possibility of superpowers working together for their own good and the good of humanity, I brought a well placed Russian to Ford Aerospace after…

It’s fitting that the end of the American Empire is marked on this feeble 4th of July by slinking out of the “graveyard of empires” with a whimper and a…

A friend and editor, knowing that I’ve been feeling that my insights through this column over the last 25 years haven’t made a difference, and that humankind continues to plunge…

Neuroscientists are discovering more and more how the human brain works, even as they understand less and less the Mind in meditation. For example, “aphantasia” refers to an apparently inherited…

A falcon hovers over the field. Brown hillsides, rounded peaks, and the dark wall of the canyon beyond town stand out in breathtaking relief in the late afternoon sun. As…

Lately I’ve been grappling with the question of context. It would seem to be a given that we live in contexts of one kind or another, from the context of…