Last week I had a possible insight that changed my perspective on the human crisis. I’m still questioning and thinking through it, but essentially, it is that Homo sapiens has…
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transmutation
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The current thinking in human evolution is that fully modern humans migrated from Africa somewhere between 50-100,000 years ago. As the crisis of consciousness intensifies, one is compelled to ask:…
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Since a grasslands fire swept leapt the creek about a decade ago, the great sycamore on its banks has been slowly dying. Sitting under it now is a reminder that…
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Anthropologists used to say that the human brain represents “the pinnacle of creation.” No one voices such blatantly anthropocentric things anymore. Human egocentrism now takes subtler forms, such as “for…
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A large, red, cup-shaped leaf, its stem pointing straight down, parachutes into the creek in the windless air and is instantly swept downstream on the clear current of death, and…
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Questioner 1: These are strange and unprecedented times. Could we inquire into the connection, if there is one, between the global climate crisis and human consciousness?
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In ancient times, and not so long ago in many parts of the world, cultures and traditions were completely distinct and whole. Tradition wasn’t something that a people had; it…
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The greatest unanswered question of biology is still the first one: How did life begin on earth? A corollary of this question is: How common is life in the universe?…