consciousness

It’s winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. The days are short and fly by. History hastens towards its unknowable goal in our age.

What is our place in the universe as human beings? Can we find it by amassing knowledge and searching outwardly, or can we only find out by going within?

Secular believers mistakenly mix religion and politics. They say ridiculous things like: “Democracy is the only system built on respect for the infinite dignity of each individual man and woman,…

All news contains an implicit interpretation of the world—a worldview. And worldviews, however accurate, are essentially constructed, made up. In this sense, all news is “fake news.”

It’s an astoundingly beautiful morning. Though fires continue to rage with high winds in southern California, here at the northeastern corner of the Great Central Valley it’s clear and calm,…

The progressive media in the United States is still stuck in ‘we’re making progress’ mode, even though the Trump train keeps rolling over them. Will they ever realize they’ve helped…

If the last year has demonstrated anything, it is that the Enlightenment ideals of reason and human rationality cannot hold sway over the chaos of belief, irrationality and tribalism. But…

For at least 100,000 years, since ‘modern man’ first emerged from East Africa, we humans have been as we are—tribal, self-centered and dominated by the extremely powerful adaptive strategy of…