human consciousness

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,…

Culture, in the anthropological and traditional sense of the word, barely exists anymore. It’s one interconnected world of immense disorder now, which absurdly is called diversity. (Have you noticed that…

I wasn’t looking for a meditative state as I left on the bike for a sitting along the small creek at the edge of town late in afternoon, just feeling…

The only way one can speak of the horrendous situation in the world today is if wisdom is stirring in human heart, and not just surging darkness. Otherwise, what’s the…

Nihilism is defined as the “viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded, and that existence is senseless and useless.” Those are two very different things however. Traditional values and…

We sophisticated post-moderns tend to think of prophecy as a dubious, if not delusional element of Old Testament Judea. But is there another meaning to prophecy, one that is philosophically…

Two fish friends are swimming in a huge school. One of the fish awakens and says to her friend, “My God, all the water!” To which her friend replies, “What…

Since what lies below has erupted above ground with the presidential election in the United States, it’s become urgently important to understand the difference between the physical, the metaphysical, and…