Back when there was a real possibility of superpowers working together for their own good and the good of humanity, I brought a well placed Russian to Ford Aerospace after…
Meditations
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A friend and editor, knowing that I’ve been feeling that my insights through this column over the last 25 years haven’t made a difference, and that humankind continues to plunge…
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Neuroscientists are discovering more and more how the human brain works, even as they understand less and less the Mind in meditation. For example, “aphantasia” refers to an apparently inherited…
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A falcon hovers over the field. Brown hillsides, rounded peaks, and the dark wall of the canyon beyond town stand out in breathtaking relief in the late afternoon sun. As…
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Lately I’ve been grappling with the question of context. It would seem to be a given that we live in contexts of one kind or another, from the context of…
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As the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on America approaches, allow me to be among the first to offer some proposed insights into the twisted heaps of our psyches…
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Probably the smartest animal on Earth, other than humans, is the Orca, projectively known as “Killer Whales.” Of course smarts, as seen with humans, is a very different thing than…
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Sometimes you read a sentence that stops you in your tracks. Great writing takes the reader beyond words, and generates a moment of beauty and insight. I came across such…