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Double Vision: A 21st Century Survival Guide
In my last two articles, “Is the Universe Real?” https://medium.com/p/b04a660f52e9 and “Do We Have To Take the Universe Seriously?’’ https://medium.com/@brucemcgraw/do-we-have-to-take-the-universe-seriously-48235aed86f9 I first argued that the universe is not a tangible thing but…
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Do We Have to Take the Universe Seriously?
In my last article, “Is the Universe Real?” https://medium.com/p/b04a660f52e9 I argued that the universe is not a real object, but rather an experience. So, what does that mean? If the universe isn’t real,…
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Is the Universe Real?
I taught a class the other day called “The Intelligent Universe,” a play on words from my book, The Magical Universe. Part of my presentation involved exploring the 13.8-billion-year evolutionary history of the…
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Homo Ignoramus
The world and its inhabitants are in an evolutionary crisis. Some call it a meta-crisis, a crisis not in one or two areas but in nearly all areas of life. So much is…
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Netflix’s Kaos: A Modern Parable
I have watched the first three episodes of the Netflix series Kaos, based on Greek Mythology, and while it takes some creative liberties with the stories, it still has an interesting plot. Kaos…
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Plato: Tyrants are the Most Miserable People
Plato’s notion is that tyrants, or those people devoted to achieving wealth and power above all else, are the most miserable people. This concept blows a big hole in the ethos of Capitalism. In…
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Two Truths
We are living in an insane world right now. Most everyone’s ideas are firmly embedded, shutting out alternative perspectives. However, Buddhists have a perspective that can help open our minds. Absolute and Relative Truth…
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Mother and Child Reunion
We may remember the Paul Simon song “Mother and Child Reunion,” but many may not know this concept comes from “The Bardol Thodol,’’ commonly known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which…
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Modern Humans Have Lost the Sacred
In his essay, “The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man,” psychoanalyst Carl Jung argued the modern world was approaching a catastrophe because it had lost touch with the sacred. By sacred, Jung meant the…
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Trump and Norman Vincent Peale
In my last article, “An Insane Person for President?” I argued that someone completely disassociated from reality was insane, and that defined Trump. I even cited a comment from his niece, Mary Trump, a…
