Self Awareness
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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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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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Trump and the Egyptian God Set
In my last article, “One Divine Moment for Republicans and a Magical One for Democrats,” I brought up the attempted assassination of Trump, who claimed had he not moved his head a quarter…
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Returning to the Shaman to Move Forward
In a taped lecture by Alan Watts, he discussed a 1957 paper by mythologist Joseph Campbell, “The Symbol Without Meaning” In it, Campbell explained the beginning, development, and dissolution of cosmologies or great…
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The Dog Whisperer and the Ego
Have you ever watched Cesar Milan’s show, The Dog Whisperer? Its newest rendition is called Better Human, Better Dog. It’s very spiritual. In the show, Cesar Milan, a dog trainer, takes on challenging…
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The Next Five Years
The next five years, in terms of climate change, could be brutal. Wading through the beginning of this article could also be brutal. But if you can get through it (it’s not long),…
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Free Will vs. Spiritual Determinism
In my last article, linked here, I reviewed an internationally renowned expert on the Western tradition’s philosophical and mystical roots, Peter Kingsley, and his view of the “Spiritual Determinism” embodied in Empedocles’ stories of…
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Divine Madness
At the end of my last article on Empedocles, he claimed that the only way to make our way through the illusions of this finite material world is through Strife or “Madness.” This…
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Empedocles and the Garden of Eden
This is my third article on Empedocles’ story of the cosmos and the soul. In the first one, I laid out the basics of the story. You can read it here. It is the…
