Without being exactly in danger of starving to death, people consider that life is not worth living if they cannot have comforts, pleasures, luxuries; the national industry is considered insufficient if it provides for a bare existence, if it does not provide affluence; a country considers itself incomplete if it has not good ports,…
Upon recollection of my childhood the most cherished memories were the many times I explored the environment surrounding my house and the yard where I grew up. The desire to see, to hear, to touch one’s surroundings first hand, to know one’s own country is natural. Whenever I visit my hometown, the neighborhood where…
Like Linus, who has the football snatched from his well aimed, and enthusiastic kick, by Lucy — could it be that all we have heard, have had represented to us is a grand hoax? The motivation to make the world a better place by reducing my carbon footprint, by the installation of the roof…
The photo was captured by a friend. On my first look at the image I felt that something unspeakable and primeval had been captured on the cameras sensor, and by the collection of forms in the print. The photo taken on September 11 at twilight, shows a passing cloud wall, just after a downpour. …
The great obstacle to mysticism transforming humanity is the same which prevented the creation of a divine humanity. Man has to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow; in other words, humanity is an animal species, and, as such, subject to the law which governs the animal world and condemns the living…
On Sunday I was invited to a event at the Tau Center in Wheaton, a presentation on “everyday mysticism.” Being new to the area, I am curious to make new acquaintances, and the topic does interest me. Mystical experience is not esoteric, rare, something reserved for the psychologically unbalanced. Seems to me that mystical…
I am not a fan of television due my upbringing, and on account of other reasons flowing from that. I become impatient with thinly written dialog, and one dimensional cartoon-like characters. That’s how prime-time TV seems to me. Anyway after a day of effort earning a living, or in pursuit of something that I…
…… as long as experimental science is not firmly established, there will be no surer guarantee of the truth than universal assent. Nay, truth will as a rule, be this very assent. We may note, by the way, that this is one of the causes of intolerance. The man who does not accept the…
Things take longer to happen than you think they will, but then they happen much faster than you thought they could…….. The accumulation of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases – some of which will envelop the planet for hundreds and possibly thousands of years – is now trapping as much extra energy…
A rainy Sunday morning in Geneva. The remnants of tropical storm Imelda, which inundated Houston is passing through: rain, potentially lots of rain adding to already swollen Fox and Des Planes rivers. Does a future scientist begin as a toad hunter? Perhaps! Summertime is opportunitie for a child to observe Nature in a mode…
