Death
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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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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…
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The Garden of Eden: An Evolutionary Tale
Back when I used to teach Mythology to my college students, I would teach a section on creation stories. One of the creation stories I taught was the Garden of Eden. One approach…
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Softening the Grip of the World
This is my second article on Lucid Dreaming and Dream Yoga. In this article I want to give practical advice on how to soften the grip this “solid” world has on us, allowing…
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Lucid Dreaming and Dream Yoga
A while back I wrote a handful of articles on death. One of them covered, briefly, the eight stages of death as outlined in The Tibetan Book of the Dead. At the end,…
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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…
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Do We Love the World Enough to Save It?
Let me ask you a question before we begin. When you look out at the world around you, what do you see? How do you relate to it? How Do You View the…
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The Kali Yuga
The Kali Yuga is the fourth and present age of the world cycle of yugas according to Hinduism. It represents an age of darkness and depravity in humanity that leads to the destruction…
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Cataclysm: A Natural Power of the Universe
In one of his video courses, entitled, The Ten Powers of the Universe, cosmologist, Brian Swimme discusses these powers which include, synergy, emergence, transmutation, transformation among others. They all sound pretty positive, but…
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Overcoming Our Fear of Death
What’s our real fear of death? It is the fear of our nothingness. We are afraid that when we die, we, as a self, will be annihilated, gone from existence forever. That fear…
