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Enlightenment

Jesus: The Return

Ever wonder what it would be like if Jesus actually came back? You don’t have to be Christian or even religious to chew on this one. But to do so reveals quite a lot about the lunacy of the human mind. So let us…

January 25, 2014

Happiness is to Drop the Search – and the Searcher

Many moons ago a sibling asked me why I was investing so much of my time and energy searching for life’s meaning. “It doesn’t get you anywhere, it’s not making you any happier,” or words to that effect. Oh but it will make me…

December 4, 2013

Teaching Kids to Turn Within

From my son during a recent lengthy car trip: “Dad, what religion are we?” I answered that we are not religious or, more specifically, that I am not. Turns out that some of my son’s friends had been poking into his background in that…

October 21, 2013
It's not your fault

It’s Not Your Fault

In the cathartic scene of “Good Will Hunting,” our hero is at last forced to accept that the abuse he endured as a child was not his fault. After a lifetime of marching to an invisible drummer, Will is at last so beaten down…

February 10, 2013

Emptying the Prison of the Mind

What a peculiar prison sentence is this thing we call life. Each of us appears to have been born into captivity, a death sentence hanging over us, only the actual date of our ‘execution’ unknown. We are shackled to these bodies – bodies that…

February 1, 2013

Why Do You and Your Belief in You Exist?

“Why does the universe go through all the bother of existing?” – Stephen Hawking Am I living a life or am I a life being lived? Am I or am I not? And if I am not then why is there still this sense…

December 9, 2012