Edward Curtin The person with whom we are all most intimate is oneself. It’s just the way it is. I don’t mean that in some oracular Delphic “know thyself”...

Julien Charles In Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel Cat’s Cradle, the deadpan realist from the Midwest–the 20th century’s Mark Twain–delivers an instructive review of the way in which Americans hold...

Karen Hunt “People who claim that they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us… It’s people who claim that they’re good…that you have to be wary...

Ryan Matters When the famous quantum theorist, David Bohm, read Jiddu Krishnamurti’s “The First and Last Freedom”, he was blown away by his insight and knowledge regarding the phenomenon...

Ed Curtin There was a time when time was time and space and speed had some human meaning, for people lived within the limits of the natural world of...

Edward Curtin “A house constitutes a body of images that give mankind proofs or illusions of stability.” Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space There is a vast and growing gulf...

John Griffin If you ever thought of becoming a philosopher, now’s the time. In fact, now is the only and last chance you have. The philosophical adventure – many...

Edward Curtin It’s been raining incessantly for three days. It is a cool early morning in the beginning of July and I have just made a cup of coffee....

Edward Curtin Once upon a time in my youthful naiveté, I would mock those who said they believed in out-of-space aliens and flying saucers. In my hubris, I even...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of Peter Jackson’s trilogy adapting JRR Tolkien’s Lord of Rings. Next...

Dielle Ciesco Who would you be? A lot of people wonder: if I’d been alive at the time of the 2nd World War, who would I have been? Would...

Edward Curtin The road led up the hill between houses until it came to the lake where it ran between the lake and the woods and the thought of...

Edward Curtin In March of last year as the coronavirus panic was starting, I wrote a somewhat flippant article saying that the obsession with buying and hoarding toilet paper...

David Perez Hardly a day goes by without news of the multi-sided impact of the digital world, how it shapes our individual lives and our collective future. Curse and...

Edward Curtin After a night of haunting dreams that flowed as if they were written like running water, written on air, as the Roman poet Catullus once said, in...

John Steppling “There is no question that most television is a waste of time. The people connected with it realize how bad programming is and go ahead with their...

Edward Curtin In 1888,  the year before he went insane, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote the following in Twilight of the Idols: We have got rid of the real world: what world...

Todd Hayen Most articles that I have seen regarding the monstrosity of the Covid-19 crises focuses on objective, practical, and materialist issues. These topics include the destruction of the...

Words are inadequate to describe certain experiences that happen outside the law of cause and effect. Although they are universal, they are often so weird that to recount them...

At my Quaker Meeting, occasionally someone will say, “Could we have some silence please?” especially during a business meeting, which we call Meeting for Worship with a Concern for...