Ego bashing has been in fashion ever since humans woke up to the embarrassment of owning a consciousness. Here, instead of heaping more abuse on that part of our mind that we live our days in, let’s pay homage to Monkey Mind, that magnificent magician. Monkey Mind is always on. Like a hyperactive meth addict …
Imagine if we are told that the moment we are done living this life, we will proceed to a movie theater as an immortal spirit and watch looping reruns of a film of our whole past life, every waking second of it relived as a third-person documentary style cinematic narrative, endlessly into perpetuity. How might …
The heart does not pump blood through the body. Yes, contact with this statement may well make one recoil with incredulity, cease cognition, and run off with the urge to do some cardio exercise. One may want to withhold judgement though, since it a sign of wisdom to be able to hold in consideration two …
Some day, humanity may view the way that we generally treat our children today in the same way as societies of the past once treated women or supposedly inferior races. One cannot guarantee that such a realization will dawn, but one hopes that it does. If this sounds overly dramatic, consider the ugly facts. With …
The second half of life typically brings with it a strange paradox. We may have achieved what we set out to do in life, by raising a family, establishing a career, and building a personal identity. Yet, as middle age arrives, persistent trolls with names like meaning and purpose arise out of nowhere, and wake …
There are times when the “me”-ness of our everyday experience weakens. Life feels a bit like it is being lived in third person. Our selves feel a bit unreal, and reality itself feels a bit unreal. The former condition is referred to as depersonalization, and the latter as derealization. Both of these phenomena involve a …
It is a curious phenomenon that the bodies of nearly all higher animals manifest a shape best described as an asymmetrical hourglass. A head, a relatively larger torso, and separating them, a narrow constriction called the neck. Exceptions, such as the bizarrely intelligent octopus, are few. In the head lies the brain, the organ that …
What is this human obsession called the News? Let’s be honest. Do we really need to fill our daily lives with the latest in buffoonery and posturing from global politicians, shrill commentary from all manner of outraged experts, massive deluges of facts and figures meant to distort and overwhelm us, assorted infotainment to distract us …
The arc is unmistakable. Voluntarily or involuntarily, humans are isolating. The last century has seen a stratospheric rise in humans living by themselves, and spending most of their time alone. In cities across the world, solo households are the norm now. More than half of all adults in the Western world call themselves single. A …
The über task of every human is to play a game called Individuation. The game lasts for the entirety of his or her lifetime. Participation is not optional. As life begins, each player is dealt a unique set of cards, all face down. Everyone is born whole, but wholly unconscious. In childhood one sits in …
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