A lonely place…
Two nights ago I had a dark and lonely dream. Vague now, but it centered on my father’s garden, an anchor of my childhood home. At the beginning of the dream, my family and I worked that garden…turning the soil,...
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You can’t go home again…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 20, 2019 | Contentment, Human Nature, Mortality, Notes, Reality, Search, The self, Time | 0 |
A few days ago, I was listening to an interview of a Venezuelan writer. She had left the shell of what was, only a decade or so ago, one of the more thriving economies of Latin America. Now living in Spain, she had written a...
Read MoreValues, convictions and politics…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | May 6, 2019 | Belief, Human Nature, identity, Notes, Politics, Search, Society | 0 |
I pointedly avoid political content on this site. But the political environment of any era is fodder for a student of human motivation. And in today’s increasingly inflammatory scene, considering the drivers behind...
Read MoreA crisis of identity…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 6, 2019 | Contentment, Happiness, identity, Notes, Search, Self-image, The self, Values | 0 |
I found a surprising bit of substance in a piece of escape fiction last week. Laurence Shames, in “Scavenger Reef,” tells of the death of Augie Silver, one of those rare individuals who are effortlessly successful in...
Read MoreThe limits of biology…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 6, 2019 | Belief, Human Nature, Notes, Science, Search | 0 |
I’m finishing Huston Smith’s “Fundamental Truths,” (see a recent post), and see now that it is essentialy an apology for intelligent design or something similar. I will comment in full after I finish, but...
Read MoreOur Philip, who art in Britain…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 3, 2019 | Belief, Human Nature, Meaning, Modern culture, Notes, Religion, Search | 0 |
My last post reminded me of something I stumbled on last year. A group of villagers on the island of Tanna in the South Pacific believe Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is a divine being. This Prince Philip Movement is only...
Read MoreThe need to believe…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Feb 26, 2019 | Belief, Human Nature, Notes, Religion, Search | 4 |
A friend of mine told me recently that her teenaged son has suddenly begun asking about churches. Since she has raised him and his brother areligiously, it surprised her. He hasn’t yet asked to begin church-going but...
Read More“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard…”
…(1 Corinthians 2:9, KJV) I’m reading Fundamental Truth: The Common Vision of the World’s Religions, by Huston Smith (HarperCollins 1976). He purports to examine singular threads of belief woven through all...
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