When I was very little my father took it upon himself to force-feed me the foods I refused to eat. Described to me later in life by the two witnesses at the table - my mother and older sister - these episodes apparently played out like some twisted suburban torture scene. My toddler self sat strapped [...]

I believe now that consciousness reveals itself in stages not unlike a painter or sculptor who reveals his art over time. The more we attend to the task of revealing our true nature, the more consciousness obliges and the secrets to our being revealed. I know this to be true for the simple reason that, more than [...]

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I suspect a lot of humanity's frenetic activity, our epic booze and drug consumption, our obsessions with sex and things, our need to keep killing each other, stems from a lurking suspicion that god doesn't exist. And if you take away god, you take away purpose. You take away meaning. You take away hope. Without god [...]

God died the other day after a long battle with leukemia. With his death god took all the answers with him, the ones that might have helped me to understand why he bothered with the whole creation thing if he was just going to be endlessly disappointed in the results. Why? It's the one-word question so [...]

How often I feel like a fish trapped in a bowl, a prisoner to something called life. To an outsider this sounds depressing and at times I suppose it is. But it's all I've ever known. Like a 3-legged dog, I've only ever known hopping. Fifty-two years of hopping proves one thing: all that 'you' [...]

I used to think life was about finding one's purpose, bliss, cause, etc. That we were born with a life sentence and before its end date we had this very tangible goal to achieve. I also imagined there was this tiny population of people out there who had, in fact, found "it." It's pretty clear now [...]

At a recent holiday gathering I briefly found myself in the company of a precocious 9-year-old, a child I've known for quite some time now and who - along with her parents - I admire quite a lot.This little girl provided me with the best 15 minutes of conversation I've enjoyed in years - conversation almost [...]

Take a super-simple sentence - one of the earliest and simplest - and see if it doesn't blow apart the universe as we know it. See Jane run. Let's start with run. You and I and everyone we know take our bodies to be integral parts of ourselves. We walk, run, piss, screw, eat, digest, [...]

It is said the worst punishment that can be meted out to a prisoner is solitary confinement. Lock someone in 'the hole' long enough and he starts to go mad (note the metaphorical connection between 'hole' and burial/death). Seems rather clear to me now that this is pretty much the way each of us experiences life - [...]