The Ground Beneath and the Sky Above
It’s not just printers that are three-in-one. In Christianity there are Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. In Taoism: Yang, Yin, and the Tao. In...
The Sacred and the Profane
Most of us would agree that how we behave in this life is important, whether our concern is for living beings around us or...
Comprehending the Mystery
Einstein once remarked that “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.” He had good reason to perceive the universe...
Inquiry Outtake
It strikes me as strange that–after reading a dozen books over a span of decades–the themes they address can remain so mysterious. It seems...
Word of the Week: Transaction
When appended to ordinary words, the prefix (“trans”) can invoke a spirit of transcendence. Translations of wisdom teachings from distant lands can bring new...
A poem by Ken McKeon
Florence Sur Les Champs-Élysées It’s all on or nothing, and that last completely Nails you down, planks you under-lid, that, The last door, and...
Elder Brother
Among indigenous peoples of South and North America—alongside core communities and scattered vestiges of civilizations which existed long before conquistadors arrived in 1498–the Kogi...
Original Thinking
We all know that polluting the land, the water, and the air—and treating fellow creatures as unfeeling resources to be exploited–is wrong and unsustainable....
“Inside Knowledge” (a Review)
Tottering between stressful agitation and energy-draining repetition, sometimes we feel like a spinning top and sometimes like a winter glove frozen in a snow...
A Crisis of Knowledge
Decades ago, sitting in a YMCA room in Calgary, Alberta, I read “Self Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was a time in my...