Philosophy
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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…
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Evolutionary Magic II
This is my second article on evolutionary magic. In my first article I focused on the slight asymmetry in the creation and destruction of pairs matter and anti-matter particles in the early universe.…
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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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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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Evolutionary Magic
The basis of my philosophy is evolution. Matter evolves, life evolves, even consciousness and self-consciousness evolve. Everything evolves. That in and of itself is not a particularly bold statement. The scientific evidence for…
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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…
