Leaving God Almighty out of the Adam & Eve story lends insight into our modern human condition — The first of a three-part series. For part two, click here. For part three, here. This is a retelling, a re-imagining, of the ancient story of Eve and the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. It’s a myth now (unless the Bible you believe in is…

A reimagining of the ancient story of Eve in the Garden of Eden, part 2 of 3 — The second in a three-part series. For part one, click here. To jump to part three, click here Feeling our being A child, slouched on the couch sucking on a bottle and needing a diaper change, can be the same child thirty years later sucking on a beer and needing a shave. How…

A reimagining of the ancient story of Eve in the Garden of Eden, part 3 of 3 — Third of a three-part series. For part two, click here. Or start at the beginning, here Self-awareness, the feeling Allegorical Eve gave us self-awareness. Now, looking at the world through eyes we call our own, touching it with hands we know to be ours, the look and feel of the world itself changed. …

My part in the orchestra, the song of who I am — Sometimes it’s helpful to sing it out. Forget the whys and wherefores, just belt it out. This is what I believe. Here goes… I believe there is no true border between ‘me,’ and ‘not me.’ To look out upon our world is to look in upon ourselves. I believe we…

And, the true story of the one-kid firing squad… — Adapted from the book, ‘Life, the Universe, God, and all that Stuff’ (2018) “Shoot me, Johnny! Shoot me!” That’s what the kid kept saying. We’ll call him Tommy. Our moms were in the kitchen. It was the early 1960s and we were maybe five years old, playing ‘army’ in the…

Imagine a universe of two things, you, and a medium for creation. Maybe it’s a sandbox, or toy drum. Maybe it’s paper and crayons. So, with your crayons you draw a picture, and you take it to your mommy and show it to her, and she asks, ‘But Honey, why…

The idea of an essential ‘me’ fenced apart from the rest distorts our vision of ourselves — — Adapted from the book, ‘Life, the Universe, God, and All That Stuff’ (2018) Imagine a wrench. (If you’re having trouble, look at the pictures above, each is of a wrench.) Such a simple thing. Essential for tightening and loosening stuff like bolts. But is a wrench always ‘a wrench’? …

The non-objective existence of a lonely unit-particle — This article is adapted from the book, Life, the Universe, God, and All That Stuff, available on Amazon Imagine an object that lives all by itself in an infinite universe. Lonely existence. …

Squeeze past the BIG CONCEPTS blocking the view and watch the absolutes of objective reality melt away before the wondering gaze of awareness — I remember as a youngster trying to capture the moment when I went to sleep, trying to be aware of that moment. It didn’t work, of course. As soon as the moment arrived, I wasn’t aware, so, no awareness I’d gone to sleep. Nice try, kid. A corollary of that…