Meditations

Evidence that there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Americans and Canadians culturally comes in the tragic form of a trio of British Columbian thrill-seekers dying in a plunge…

“The mystical stream has always been an important part of the human experience and the source from which belief systems emerge.”

A palpable pall hung over the land yesterday, the 4th of July, the day America celebrates its birth as a nation. Ostensibly from uncontained wildfires in the region, the pallor…

Carl Jung famously said, “The gods have become diseases.” By this he meant (I think) that the underlying myths, or ‘archetypes’ have come loose from their moorings, and degenerated into…

We’re hearing the word ‘breakthrough’ a lot lately. It’s starting to sound like one of those words that has no meaning, like ‘compassion.’

I have a good friend in the Azores who lived in California for 18 years. He’s been back on his home island in the mid-Atlantic for 20 years, but retains…

How did humankind come to this pass? Not just evolutionarily, which is a fairly straightforward process in a random kind of way. But rather as the separating and separate, fragmenting…

If I had any doubt that woolly-headed Democrats are just as responsible as heartless Republicans for America electing this cretinous president, it was removed by a young 40-year-old man from…