Just a Couple of -Isms
Evolutionism and Creationism often butt heads in the same way that religion and science do. Ironically the disciplines themselves are lifeless. Only dogmatic [...]
All Fears are Irrational Part I: Chocolate Cake
An interesting esoteric principle is that all fears are irrational. Most people resist this idea even before it is explained. This makes the [...]
The Secret and Blaming the Victim
Health professionals often complain that the current slew of “create your own reality” folks encourage a “blame the victim” mentality. For, if you [...]
People of Abraham
Oftentimes when growing up people would as me about my “religion.” I was brought up a-religiously by faithful scientists and engineers, so I [...]
First Change within, then the World Changes without.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g8cmWZOX8Q] The video above is from a 1992 UN Conference in Rio de Janeiro. It powerfully conveys the inspiration of my childhood. Although [...]
Subject and Object Part V: Models of Reality
Constantly we hear in the news that another Imam or Pastor, or other religious leader denounces some scientific discovery. Even worse, there are [...]
Genes and Reincarnation Part III: Genetic Designate
So here we are, a mishmash of all of the loose ends of our families from time immemorial. Your uncle’s penchant for fishing, [...]
Genes and Reincarnation Part II: Lifeguarding the Genepool
Imagine that every several thousand years, or even million, mother nature cleared up all the loose ends in the genetic code. These are [...]
Genes and Reincarnation Part I: Ancestral Memory
When I was a child I read a story about Anthropologists in landlocked sub-Saharan Africa. They told of a tribe which had not [...]
Eternity in a Moment
In the movie K-Pax, the alien “Prot,” tells us that the universe is one never-ending cycle of contraction and expansion. He further adds [...]