The most difficult thing for humans to do is to be self-knowing. We all think we know ourselves, and that may be so, as far as self-knowledge goes. But self-knowledge…
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Meditations
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Did you know that Neanderthals actually had bigger brains than we Homo saps? They clearly did not possess symbolic thought however, just “purely intuitive insight” as paleoanthropologists ambiguously put it.…
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In the past month, since the beginning of a “return to normalcy” in America, there have been 53 mass shootings. Pause for a moment and let that number sink in.…
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As many others have noted, the descendants of the first hunter-gatherers that became agriculturalists wrote the founding document of the Judeo-Christian tradition. I’m referring of course to Genesis: “God said…be…
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When I was a young man, I spent a fair amount of time teaching and simply being around little ones. I’ve always felt an affinity for young children, and being…
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A mallard couple was lounging in the shallows of ‘the beach,’ a short sandy stretch in wooded Lower Park, as I approached. Not wanting to disturb them, I backed away…
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It may sound strange coming from a mystic, but I sympathize with atheists. If the choice is between a ‘Creator’ standing apart from ‘His’ creation, or nothing but cosmic randomness,…
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It’s late afternoon. The foothills are astoundingly clear after raining all night and morning. A few lines of gray and white cumulus hover over the hills, like stationary waves crashing…