Pushing through the Sidewalk.
It’s interesting how exceptional capacities sometimes blossom out of exceptional difficulties. Perhaps such difficulties are hidden in each of us—unsuspected by others as we...
Category: Companions in Time
Nagas and Dolphins.
“VEN’s play a role, it appears, in our ability to trust, to joke around, even to love one another. Whatever their purpose, early estimates...
The Missing Center Rolls On.
Do we feel that we are at the center of something greater than our own foothold in life? Chances are that we try to...
It’s the Road that’s Aging, not the Journey.
Things look different from different viewpoints, as we all discovered a few decades ago seeing our planet for the first time from space. A...
Free Will
I have a friend who believes that there is no “Free Will”. I’m not sure what that actually means, but I don’t feel that...
Water Walking on Water.
It’s raining in New Mexico. Perhaps if it keeps up for another two months, locals will start complaining, but for now we look at...
Floating in a Sea of Oblivion
Have you ever wondered how other people see the world? For that matter, how do we ourselves see it? Are we floating in some...
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...
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...