Meditations

Everyone seemed to be out on a warmish Saturday afternoon at the peak of autumn in northern California. Yet there were no crowds and there was no crowding at the…

As a friend said to me today, “As soon as a country decides it is good and great, it invokes its dark side.” Hillary’s repeated party line, “America is great…

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…

The word metaphysical is as amorphous as the things it refers to. As I see it, the word simply pertains to dimensions and dynamics of human consciousness are poorly or…

After a half hour sitting beside the stream on an overcast morning before a predicted storm, the light suddenly changes. The skies become almost white in their grayness, and a…

Last week I had a possible insight that changed my perspective on the human crisis. I’m still questioning and thinking through it, but essentially, it is that Homo sapiens has…

A mother and her early-teen daughter stand at the door to Starbucks as I ride up on the bike, both their faces planted on their dumbphones. The mother, an attractive…

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:…