Climate
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An Insane Person as President?
Webster defines insane as “exhibiting a severely disordered state of mind,” “unable to think in a clear and sensible way,” or “people having a severely disordered state of mind.” All of those definitions…
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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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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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Evil and the Intelligent Universe
We must look at evil from a new paradigm to understand it—the old paradigm of seeing good and evil as absolutes no longer works. Humans are much too complex for that. The new…
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Why We Won’t Deal Seriously with Climate Change
Lately I have been writing a lot of articles on death. I was inspired by reading The Tibetan Book of the Dead and taking a course on it by Andrew Holocek. He recommended…
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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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Evolutionary Magic VI: Oxygen and the Miracle of 21%
I have been writing this series on Evolutionary Magic to try and instill a sense of wonder and magic into people’s lives, and into their view of the universe. It’s something that is…
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Evolutionary Magic V: Photosynthesis and the New Being
The creation of cyanobacteria, that used photosynthesis for the first time in the evolution of the universe, was a remarkable development. It occurred because of a food crisis. Let’s see what caused this…
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The Evolutionary Hump
I have come to realize there is an evolutionary hump that we as individuals, as a society, and as a species need to get over if we are going to continue into the…
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Does Humanity Have a Death Instinct?
The psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, included the death instinct in in his psychology. He did it reluctantly, but he noticed there were certain self-destructive impulses in humans that he couldn’t explain, like the impulse…
