It wasn’t always this way When did you last believe that the world was genuinely getting better? Not incrementally, technologically, or in some narrow measurable way—but morally better? That human beings were progressing toward something better? The question seems silly, doesn’t it?

and Why We Are the Way We Are When a baby is born into a family, it is born into a world of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. All of these components contribute to forming the child’s outlook on

Get ready for it In that never-ending cycle of the generations of humanity, every individual, even you, is of little consequence. We live our lives. We affect the lives of others around us. Our dreams, our choices, ripple forward, minutely

How Society’s Formula for Success Becomes a Trap During childhood, countless voices repeatedly impressed upon us what we must do in order to have a successful life. We were taught the “right” way to live, as opposed to the way

A Story from WWI We sometimes call our political enemies evil. But they are nothing like the evil we have seen in the past. Like all human qualities, evil is relative. This is a story of evil: Henry Morgenthau Sr.

How Galileo’s Absurd Theory Became Reality I want to talk about what a leap into the void, a leap into apparent madness Galileo Galilei’s (1564–1642) helio-centric theory was at the time. It contradicted everything that people knew. I mean, really,

Because Humans are still Humans What happened in the past was real then; but the same types of events still happen today. The nature of humanity, and the things we do, remain constant in history. The same people who exist

Exposing Occam’s Razor as Humanity’s Favorite Way to Avoid the Hard Truth In life, nothing is as simple as we want it to be. Ideally, we could use our powers of logical reasoning to solve our problems, such as: A

Why is This Concept of Over-Soul Important? Why have I spent so much time on this subject of Over-Soul, Collective Unconscious, the Soul of the World, and Swedenborg’s Spiritual World of Eternity? It is because I believe that these concepts

It Actually Does Professional sports pits two teams or individuals against each other, and usually the better one wins. That predictability often makes for boring contests: just skill, some luck, and little real drama. Professional wrestling thrives on drama. Rules

What Retirement Forces Us to Confront When people are on their deathbeds, they rarely or never say, I wish I had worked more. When many retire, they wither and die in front of the TV sets. There is nothing pressing

Mathematics can explain some things well, some things not so well, and some things not at all. Why is it that we all just assumed that everything is reducible into mathematics? Who came up with that idea? And why have

The Roots of the Over-soul and Collective Unconscious 99.999% of us humans can never know the Truth. But some of us can have glimpses. Jung had glimpses. But Emanuel Swedenborg was a true exception. He was the 0.001%. He had

Carl Jung and the Collective Unconscious Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) is the one who made popular the belief in an unconscious mind. Before that, it was thought that all decisions were made consciously. Thanks to Freud, now many believe that the

The Big Bang Theory is considered truth by most people in the West. It has been defended as unquestionable truth by the vast majority of cosmological theorists for decades. Leading scientists, no, nearly all known scientists, believe it. Devised in

If you knew you had the wrong map, would you still try to use it? Well, that is how we live today. We are navigating our lives using the wrong map. Before you can set a course for your life,

That other group, whoever they are: people of another race, of another religion, another sex or political group. . .it is so easy to disparage them, even to hate them (especially if you read social media). But we all know

People tend to put a lot of faith in their intelligence. Just because we appear to be the most intelligent creature on the planet does not mean that our intelligence is worth a damn. We get by, but we don’t

A friend of mine, Mike Norman, emailed me this: I was watching the movie Wall Street (the original) again the other night. The scene where Michael Douglas’s character, Gordon Gekko, was giving a speech at the Teldar Paper gathering. He

As we all know, a massive problem we all face is that we are really busy. People need stuff from us. We are overloaded at work. Our spouses and kids need our attention. We have to call the credit card

You cannot learn what pain means by merely reading books. You have to experience it, which means, we all have personal definitions of what pain is. And our definitions may all be different. When someone says it hurts a lot,

Most adults have heard of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson was a well-known preacher, poet, essayist, philosopher and speaker. He lived in New England from 1802 to 1882, advocated for the abolition of slavery and remains one of the most influential

It is easy to talk of following your inner voice and all, but when it gets uncomfortable, most of us head back to the herd. If we are to become an actualized person, following the inner voice is becomes our

If about 2000 years ago, a guy walked up to Jesus and said, “Look, I’m a busy man. I don’t want to listen to your talks if they aren’t any good. Can you tell me, what they are about in

The problem is, our language is limited, especially when it comes to describing the profound euphoria associated with Divine revelation. Our language cannot communicate ecstasy. Can you communicate the feeling of an orgasm to a virgin? Hell, our language cannot