The Old Witch would chase me in my dreams. She was terrifying and I would always flee in great fear. But the more times I saw her, the more advanced my fleeing efforts became. At first I would run and she would chase me. Eventually I took to flying, but the terrifying chase scene was unrelenting because she readily adapted to my flights no matter the destination and no matter whether on or above ground. Strangely, she never caught me. But I couldn’t shake her, no matter my strategies.
Read MorePerhaps one of the more vexing things in all of life occurs, oddly enough, when we do daily meditations on dying. Because in the process of meditations on death, we inevitably encounter coming to terms with anonymity.
Read MoreWhat if, in the pursuit of science and in the pursuit of unraveling the nature of the universe — including matter — quantum physics begins to realize the connectivity of everything? And begins to observe unseen forces that inexplicably transcend time and distance? Because this is what is occurring right now.
Read MoreIs it really all that disturbing to be uncertain? To live adrift in the tireless flux of the unknown? To no more understand the depths of our own self than the expansiveness of the universe? I think we underestimate our desire for the unknown — for the mind-expanding sense of a universe and a self without end. For the sublime rewards of a world of no clear and definitive answers.
Read MoreThere is the saying, “What goes up, must come down.” This saying is pre-disposed to gravity. Interestingly, we rarely hear, “What comes down, must go up.”
If we consider both of these sayings equally, however, we can find ourselves suspended between them. But since we do not consider both concepts equally, we find ourselves predisposed toward one of them, toward gravity, toward the direction of ‘down’.
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