I find routines in life boring, so the other day I did something I’d never normally do. I took an hour or so alone and walked around every floor of the Mall of America and looked at each store and restaurant while observing the people who milled about during the noon hour. I’ve been there […]

Today I thought I’d question the very core of morality.
Bob Proctor’s presentation on the Science of Getting Rich is available on Google Video (Hat Tip to Lyman Reed).
One of the things he said struck me as highly controversial. At one point he said, “There is no right and wrong, there is only your perspective of […]

In this post I will describe self-destructive things I have seen in other people, not to build myself up, but because I know I have these blind spots and you probably do too, and these stories may help us better understand each other. We all seem to have difficulty seeing our own weaknesses and destructive […]

Last weekend, I read Freedom, The Courage to be Yourself – Insight for a New Way of Living by Osho.*
Osho’s ideas provoked thoughts about limiting mindsets and where they come from:
Do you believe you are a belief system? Maybe more than one?
Maybe you believe you are a Poor, Democratic, Environmentalist, Buddhist, Feminist.
Maybe you believe you […]

Reading The Total Perspective Vortex by Christopher S. Putnam at Damn Interesting produced some insights into life and the personal development industry as a whole.
The basic premise of the article is that people who are “Mentally Disordered” may actually be more grounded than those that are “Normal.”
Psychologists Shelly Taylor and Jonathon Brown state that the […]

Singularity? That’s a pretty geeky word isn’t it? If you are familiar with it at all, you’re probably an astrophysicist or an astronomy/sci-fi buff. But what does it mean to bloggers? You are creating a new era by creating global, collective, shared, intelligence.
Reason Magazine has a fantastic article with futurists regarding the possibility of a […]

Robert Gerzon asks, “Is the unexamined life worth living?”
This famous quote from Socrates has always intrigued me. Does it intrigue you? We are told to live in the present and set goals for the future, so isn’t examining your life living in the past? If you examine your life frequently… are you living in the […]

Are you curious about the truth? The truth about reality? What this really is? So am I.
Are you an armchair philosopher? Are the answers your parents gave to you when you were a child… well… a little simplistic?
I have spent most of my adult life with a narrow mind that I closed to certain ideas. […]

My 4-year-old son was sitting at the table yesterday having a snack.
Out of the blue, he asked, “Dad, where can I see God?”
Surprised, I said, “Huh? I don’t know.”
He asked again, “Is he in another state or country or something?”
I said, “I don’t know if you have to go anywhere to see him, look around, […]

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it. – Alan Watts
I woke up one morning last week with a strange idea in my head. I don’t know where it came from, but it led to one of coolest “discoveries” I have made so far and I’d like to share it with […]