Within and without…
Reflections on reading Bill Moyer’s interviews of Joseph Campbell in “The Power of Myth:” We see ourselves today as external to nature, just as we see ourselves as external to religion. We think we can just...
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Agnosticism, practically speaking…
I participated last night in facilitated conversation on spirituality (a word I find overused and not very useful, but a useful conversation none the less…). While introducing myself, I said I am agnostic, but the...
Read MoreValues, convictions and politics…
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 MoreThe limits of biology…
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…
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…
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...
Read MoreMeaning and belief
People seek meaning through belief, a major reason why they cling so tenaciously to belief, even in the face of evidence to the contrary.
Read MoreI can listen to arguments all day long…
…but they don’t change a thing. The idea of dying makes me sad for simple pleasures I will no longer have. Yes, I’ve heard it: “No brain, no memories.” But I hope my own brain ticks along until it...
Read MoreNote From Fátima…
In Fátima, Portugal, two days now, and thinking again about religion and humanity. Indeed, one cannot help but do so here, where the entire town has evolved into a living irony, an immersive experience to the selling of...
Read MoreThe Dollhouse…
So last Sunday, my neighbor sat down with his morning paper and never got up. They found him hours later, but from his new perspective, it could have been light years. He had been a neighborhood fixture, one of those guys that...
Read MoreReview of “Straw Dogs: Thoughts on humans and other animals,” by John Gray
“Other animals do not need a purpose in life. A contradiction to itself, the human animal cannot do without one. Can we not think of the aim of life as being simply to see?” (–John Gray, in “Straw Dogs:...
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st, March 2016