When Do You Exist?
Numerous photographs of Sri Paramhansa Yogananda in meditation show him to be in what appears to be a semi conscious state. Not everyone lives in…
Category: Commentary
Finding an Equation for the World Problem
The world seems mired in crippling ignorance of how to solve its biggest problems, but memories of how we learned to solve simple formulas remind…
The Freedom of Nothingness
The world presents us with endless encounters and challenges, and finding the “right” response for each experience seems crucial. But some Eastern schools of thought…
One Versus Many: Reality as a Mosaic is a Mirage
Today a brief note, to serve as a foundation for a Tibetan form of mental discipline in my next essay. This article will be short,…
Seeing through Mirrors
It is often the case that a number of events that at first seemed coincidental later reveal a sequence or a line of successive approximations…
What Few Know About Documentary Film
In the past few months, I’ve had some peculiar experiences concerning setting up for film situations. You may already know that I make documentary films,…
Oppenheimer’s Moral Ironies
Oppenheimer, right, with Gen. Leslie Groves, military head of the Manhattan Project, 1942 (Source) With the recent release of the film Oppenheimer (which I found…
The Myth of Reality Meets the Reality of Myth
Briefly today, a review of what we think we know, and don’t. By all accounts, early humans appear in all parts of the world to…
Avi Loeb and Interstellar Questions
Below is the frontispiece of The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo), a 1632 Italian language book by…
From Prayer to Reality
Brainstorming about Brain Activity It is well known that, in confirming its preference for objectivity, science makes virtually no room for internal psychic processes,…
