Overhanging the gorge are great angular outcroppings of volcanic rock—solid and sharp-edged protrusions from some long-ago eruption of Lassen or some other volcano in the area. In many places, the sheer…
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Meditations
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A group of young fellows are swimming in the creek at my usual sitting spot, so I walk a couple hundred meters upstream and put the pad down across the…
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After a bad start on a hot summer’s day in the hottest part of California (the not so Great Central Valley) other than the desert, and not being able to…
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It’s strange how one can sometimes have more in common with people that hold opposite views than one does with people who hold very similar views. Such is the case…
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The attitudes we hold about our relationship to the universe, as well as to our own species, are the most important elements of our worldviews. Pascal said, “When the universe has…
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Though to some readers (and even myself) I have written ad nauseum about psychological revolution, I’m compelled, by God knows what motivation or muse, to do so again. Until the question…
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There is a great paradox to human evolution. It took billions of years to evolve a brain with the capacity for awareness of the sacred, but employing time prevents the…