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The Eternal Now
What is this “Eternal Now”? What does Eternal Now even mean? It’s a difficult concept for people to get. How can something Eternal be Now? It’s because, eternal means it’s outside of time;…
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Christianity’s Relation to Democracy and Autocracy
I was listening to a talk the other day by the mystic philosopher, Allan Watts. He asked, “Is Christianity a religion of Jesus or about Jesus?” How we answer this question could very…
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What is the Universe?
A friend asked me, “What is the Universe?” In thinking about how to answer this simple yet profound question, I decided there were two ways of looking at it. Two Ways to View…
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This Magic Moment
A while back I wrote an article entitled “The Absurd Good Feeling” linked here: Absurd Good Feeling. Absurd Good Feelings are intense feelings of well-being that spring out of the blue for no…
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Aristotle: Actualizing Our Potential
In a previous article I wrote on “Quantum Evocation” (here is the link: Evocation. ) I talked about how the universe “evoked” or allured us into our best future choices. In short we…
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The Hero’s Journey: The Buddha’s Four Noble Truths
In my last two articles I have been exploring the Hero’s Journey. In the first article (linked here: Purpose), I laid out a three step version of Campbell’s Hero’s Journey motif and gave…
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The Hero’s Journey: Garden of Eden/Plato’s Cave
In my last article, “Searching For My Purpose, (Here’s the link: Purpose). I laid out a three-part rendition of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey: Home Consciousness, the Departure and the Return. Brief Review of…
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Searching For My Purpose
To begin with, the search for our purpose is, in a sense, the search for ourselves. Aristotle tied the two together directly by claiming you can’t really know anything, including and especially ourselves,…
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The Loved Tyrant vs. the Hated Philosopher
Given the choice, would you rather be a rotten person, but have everyone love you, or would you rather be a good person, but have everyone hate you? Which one do you think…
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Dancing With Our Dharma
In my last article, “Krishna Tells Us How to Live on a Withering Planet” (Link: Krishna) , the conclusion was, we have to reconnect to our immortal souls, and when we do, our…
