What would you do if you had a chance to avert nuclear war? Wouldn’t you take any measures necessary to avoid such colossal damage? Climate change, if it continues unchecked, will bring about death and calamity equal in scale to a nuclear war. The environment will...
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...
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...
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...
The job of a father, among other things, is to protect his children. Never has this job been more important than it is right now, when the United States government is ripping children from the arms of their parents. Sometimes ICE (appropriately named for its cold cruelty)...
We all know that taking time to pull back from the world and go into a deep meditation cleanses the mind, soothes the body, and gives the nervous system an important reset. What is equally important, and given far less attention, is simply walking in nature....
When a high school student grabs an assault weapon and fires on his classmates, we are understandably appalled. That our schools are no longer safe for our children brings us shock and dismay, and thankfully another look at our gun laws. Hopefully each tragedy brings us...