Too much “Progress”?

March 26, 2018

“Progress is our most important product” was GE’s slogan when I was growing up.  Progress.  To move forward, right?  It is advancement in general, implying some higher, better state.  Right? Perhaps progress as a goal in and of itself has become an anachronism. When is enough, enough?  When did the concept of more get confused with the … Read More

Cosmology not Cosmetology

February 3, 2018

B E A U T Y C O S M O L O G Y not Cosmetology In our culture today, aesthetics are trivialized. Glamour has replaced true beauty. We revere the illusory and, too often, ignore that which is truly beautiful. Think Hollywood vs. the Atlantic Ocean; television vs. sunset. What do we pay … Read More

Imagine Your Solstice Day…

June 21, 2017

The longest day of 2017 is here.  How will each of us spend it?  Along with Albert Einstein, I believe imagination is the most important and powerful faculty humans possess.  So I imagine… …Since it is a work-a-day Wednesday, I imagine many going off to work as usual.  Yet when they come home, there will … Read More

Teachers

May 21, 2017

Teachers show up in our lives in the most unexpected forms. Today I want to talk about one kind of teacher that has popped up repeatedly for me: The Adversary. Sometimes this adversary is obvious: an open competitor in a structured scenario or someone in conversation with a declared opposing position about whatever, from politics … Read More

A Credo of True Beauty

April 30, 2017

Diarmuid O’Murchu, a fascinating Irish scholar and social psychologist,  puts forth one of the best descriptions/explanations of Bohmian of dialogue* in his excellent book, “Quantum Theology.” I had always thought of this process (though I had no name for it) more as a way of being, really. When I thought consciously along these lines, it … Read More