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…

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…

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…

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,…