There has yet to be an adequate philosophy of evil, much less a scientific explanation of it. The subject is too important, and urgent, to be left to religions and…
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thoughts on life
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It’s 90 degrees, the warmest day of the year so far in California’s Central Valley. The only beach, if you can call it that, in the park is adjacent to…
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A mini-movement in Canada links that huge but sparsely populated country from East (Halifax) to West (Vancouver). It’s entitled, “Is Hope Bullshit?”
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The most difficult falsehoods to uncover are those that are wrapped in a truth.
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The cliché, ‘being ahead of one’s time’ is easy to say, and tedious to hear. But Robinson Jeffers was truly a poet ahead of his time. Yet his solution to…
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A reader asks, “What does it mean to enter the house of death during meditation?” She wants to know, “Is it really possible to understand and transcend death while fully…
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The brain stores memories—traces of experience—automatically. Most aren’t just unnecessary; they’re detrimental to seeing and being. They become the encrustations of experience as we age. Is that inevitable?
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When I was young, America’s premier TV newsmagazine, 60 minutes, did hard-hitting political exposés. These days half the segments are schlock. That was tolerable until it crossed the line into…