humanity

Is seeking status an immutable aspect of human nature, as social commentators assume? Or is status seeking, like tribalism/nationalism, something that a modicum of self-knowing and right education can affect…

You have to laugh, if only to keep from crying, to hear the White House and State Department repeatedly pronounce how the sanctions are biting and “isolating” Russia over its…

“Tread down my need, and faith mounts up; keep my need up, and faith is trodden down!” – Shakespeare, King John

‘A plague on both your houses’ is a phrase from Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo And Juliet’ that’s commonly applied to criticize warring factions whose rivalry brings ruin to others. The dead-end argument…

Meditations – As Einstein discovered, matter is actually a dense form of energy, which can be converted into pure energy–the basis of nuclear fission and fusion. Thought is perhaps the…

Over 15,000 years ago, in a small, single-chamber cave on the northern coast of Spain, prehistoric people built a complex altar out of a huge stalagmite slab supported by antler…

As the human crisis intensifies, we can either continue in the false and darkening direction of man, or take the true and illumining direction of humanity. On the individual level,…

Though more and more people don’t think beyond the next seven minutes, most people are familiar with the first part of the Great Law of the Iroquois: “In deliberations, we…