Mythology
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Why Death is So Fascinating
In my last article, I summarized the introduction of the book, Mind Beyond Death by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche (linked here Death) A few months ago, I wrote an article entitled “The Eight Stages…
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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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Krishna Tells Us How to Live on a Withering Planet
We are in a lot of trouble on this planet. We have a myriad of problems, but none of them are larger than climate change. One could argue, the other major threat to…
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Evolutionary Magic VII: Oxygen–From Killer to Energizer
Over the last three articles I’ve written on Evolutionary Magic (EvoLMagIV, EvolMagV, EvolMagVI) I have covered one of the most remarkable periods in our evolutionary story. First off, is the emergence of life…
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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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Reconciling “God” and Evil II or “This is the Best of all Possible Worlds”
In my last article entitled “Reconciling God and Evil”, I dealt primarily with the problem some people have with the notion that an all-knowing, all-powerful and all-good God can exist in a world…
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Evolutionary Magic IV: The Creation of Life
After the original Big Bang where the universe emerged itself out of nothing, the creation of life has to be the universe’s next most magical creation. Brilliant Scientists Don’t Know How Life Began…
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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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Evolutionary Magic III
We continue our journey looking at some of the miracles, or as others call them “fine-tunings” that occurred in our 13.8 billion-year evolutionary journey. I think it is important to point these miracles…
