Theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind, a professor at Stanford, says, “The fear of death was hardwired into our genetic makeup in the deep past.” That’s a dubious premise.
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consciousness
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The local weekly featured two environmentalists just before the holiday that are actively promoting the idea of “Earth hospice.” If anything, shouldn’t they call it “Human hospice?”
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If the events of recent days have demonstrated anything, it is that the Enlightenment ideals of human reason and rationality, which originated in France, cannot hold sway over the chaos…
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Dusk brings mystery, with a tinge of primal fear. For tens of thousands of years, before the first villages or cities appeared, people huddled together at dusk to fend off…
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Questioner 1: Time is one of the most difficult problems in philosophy, science and psychology. What is time, and why do we live by it, rather than in the present,…
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Sometimes I wonder how anyone inwardly survives in this world without meditating. But when I hear people talk about their ‘practice,’ I realize we’re not talking about the same thing…
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If the universe is infinitely good, and intelligence and love infuse the cosmos, then how did evil arise?
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There have been too many encounters with animals in nature, too many non-coincidental and propitious moments, not to heed them when they occur.