Nothing shows the limits of science and the scientific method more than recent studies of awe in human beings. Following the tiresome trend of hypothesizing on the evolution of every…
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meditative state
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Forty-five years ago, while protesting the invasion of Cambodia ten days after President Nixon said he was winding down the war in Vietnam, my generation played at revolution, and got…
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The green waters of the reservoir are like glass. On the surrounding ridges, motionless pines tower over the man-made lake, and reflect off the surface of the water with mirror-like…
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Since the beginning of civilization, and probably before, sages have said, “know yourself.” There is no truism more common, yet also more commonly ignored. Just what is self-knowing, and why…
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The green waters of the reservoir are like glass. On the surrounding ridges, motionless pines tower over the man-made lake and reflect off the surface of the water with mirror-like…
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“Thoughts That Can’t Be Spoken” is a fascinating piece about a writer’s experience of a stroke. Alberto Manguel describes what happened after “a blood clot in one of the arteries…