Philosophy
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Mind Beyond Death
A friend, knowing my interests, recommended the book, Mind Beyond Death by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. I just read through the forward and the introduction and decided to write about it. My previous article…
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The Need For Meaning
Do you ever wonder why people believe such crazy things? For example, Trump’s big lie that the 2020 election was stolen despite over 60 court cases looking at every aspect of the election…
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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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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…
