Jetzterday

Process thought talks about “the presence of the past” and scientist Rupert Sheldrake has written a book with that title. In William Faulkner’s novel, Requiem for a Nun, Gavin Stevens says: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” In light of this, imagine my wonder at a word that, out of the blue, fluttered… Continue reading Jetzterday

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The Bunt Brings Laughtears

When I was in high school, I memorized a very VERBOSE definition of the “bunt” in baseball. I used to get requests to recite it and it always got good laughs. My good friend Sam Walters especially liked it. A few years back, Dr. Sam and his wife Sue visited us in Marina del Rey… Continue reading The Bunt Brings Laughtears

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The Still Waters of Morning Silence

During my last term in the three-year course of study and training required to become a licensed Practitioner1, I created a spiritual practice that I call Morning Silence. This practice enables anyone to open an “access channel” that leads down to the still waters of creativity within. It’s very simple to do: When I first… Continue reading The Still Waters of Morning Silence

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A Magical Mysterious Number: 137

Many physicists have been both enchanted and perplexed by the number 137, one of the fundamental constants in physics. Nobel laureate Richard Feynman was no exception, for he once said: “It’s one of the greatest damn mysteries of physics: a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by man.” So what is this… Continue reading A Magical Mysterious Number: 137

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The Human-Insect Connection

The emphasis that science has placed on our close “family” connection with the higher apes, a connection that becomes apparent when you visit the primate section of any zoo, can obscure the closer connection we have with insects on a developmental level or in terms of the evolution of consciousness. I first became aware of… Continue reading The Human-Insect Connection

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