The Round Year

The Round Year

The round year is an ideal that got lost in our modern experience of time, but which is so deeply embedded in old spiritual systems, it often goes unquestioned. It is a simple concept, really. We don’t live years; we ...

Memory Libraries

People picture their memory as a large body of water in which they’re immersed, one which challenges their sense of control, as they struggle to swim against its currents, or allows them the enjoyment of floating, relaxed, on its calm ...

Wisdom

I honor my fears; I cut the crystal of my confidence with them.

Whose Mind Is It, Anyway?

Whose thoughts run your head? That is a strange question. We take for granted we are the ones who think our thoughts, when in fact they are only in part our production, if at all. This article is a perfect ...

One

Don’t look at me. I’m just another version of your larger self.

Power and Will

There are truly powerful forces at work in our universe, forces so awe-inspiring our minds can’t comprehend them: giant black holes of near infinite gravity, invisible waves that propagate through vast expanses at speeds that bend space and time, energy ...

Training Attention to Color

Pick a color and try to keep track of all the objects and natural phenomena that come in that color, whether they are contrasting shoe laces on sport shoes or clouds at sunset.

The Power of Emotions

February 2, 2022

Once upon a time, emotions were the key to our survival. They are fast, much faster than thoughts, and can assess a situation at lightning speed, before our rational analysis, before our senses even; they are a lost superpower we ...

On Authorship

January 30, 2022

While listening to a lecture on postmodernism and influence, a sudden recognition stunned me. Of course there are no new stories! Of course everything we think, regardless of our erudition or awareness, has been thought many times before! We ...

We Are Nature

January 22, 2022

A breeze quickens in the middle of the forest, and all the tree branches turn in unison, revealing the undersides of the leaves and changing the color of the canopy. The birds startle and take flight together, suddenly, and your ...

No Slaves, No Masters

January 20, 2022

We live in our own perception of reality, where our level of knowledge is the real constraint on what we can see. This is the kind of knowledge that makes us understand the sun, moon and stars are not really ...

Reflection

January 7, 2022

A mirror which sees every image before it is blind to itself.