“We can't solve problems by using the samekind of thinking we used when we created them.”-Albert Einstein The recent Democratic debates are a typical example of why our problems don’t get solved. Sure enough, the questions addressed important issues, such as health care, immigration, climate change,...
In the era of Fake News, our most important facet of consciousness — attention — is being hijacked. This is what happens when you combine the perfect storm of Russia, Photoshop, Facebook, Twitter, and Donald Trump. Now they’re even talking about Deepfakes, such as the...
Humanity’s current state of affairs can be seen as an initiation from cultural adolescence to planetary adulthood. Through this lens, the challenge we’re going through is a story about growing up. Maybe endless consumption is just what a teenager does as they complete their growth spurt...
If you study the long arc of history, you can see its cyclic nature. Beginnings strike out in a new direction, leading to new awakenings as they develop. Fruits are harvested from those awakenings, and then, the inevitable decline. Just like the seasons or the stages...
Greetings everyone. I am at last bouncing back from the dead, springing forward on two new hips, and gearing up for a whole new cycle. Excuse my relative silence over the winter while I did my healing. I was sorely in need of rest and quiet....
Happy Belated New Year! I’ve been out of touch for a few weeks as I recover from my 200,000 mile overhaul: bilateral hip replacements and a slew of hyperbaric oxygen Lyme treatments. It’s been rather consuming, but I’m happy to say I’m doing great, bouncing back...
As a woman, I well remember what giving birth felt like. I even remember that all through my pregnancy I had trouble wrapping my mind around the fact that anyone could push a fully living baby out from an impossibly small opening. As I looked...
I’ve been out of the US of A for about two weeks now, and the spell is beginning to lift. The atmosphere feels lighter. People laugh and talk animatedly in cafes. The attitudes are positive, and open-minded. People are smiling and courteous, voluntarily kind and...
As the summer’s light begins to wane, and the nights take on a fresh chill, I feel a thrill of exhilaration. Fall has always been my favorite season, a time when I get really focused. And with a full schedule of workshops coming up, I...
Finding Our Values It’s hard to witness the horrors happening in our world without holding them in a larger context. Why are we, as a society, regressing at a time when we have the most advanced knowledge and technology (even the availability of spiritual technologies) that...