Full Disclosure: I think something deep and primal has changed in our cognitive depths, but it will take some time for the dramatic consequences of this change to work their way to the surface.
Something is happening in our collective mind-space, but what is it? Is it a mass awakening…or merely the [...]
“Change we can believe in” is a wonderful and effective phrase. In the giddy days before and after the election, the phrase seemed to promise that an Obama administration would bring needed change, steering our nation off the rutted road of corruption and driving it onto an environmentally friendly superhighway of wisdom. It all felt [...]
Surely every progressive knows someone who spouts out odious and hateful political ideas but who is warm, friendly, and engaging in personal life.
Of course, there are also ornery people with enlightened politics. This raises the question of whether foul progressives and amiable regressives are two versions of the same thing…or whether the similarity between [...]
One of the life’s puzzles is how people can commit atrocities and think they are serving God. Surprisingly, the answer is not hard to come by. We just have to conceptually “reverse engineer” their mindset, moving back from their actions to the assumptions that give rise to them.
Unreflective people will have a hard [...]
There are some clever answers to this question. For example, G.K. Chesterton once remarked that nothing is ever boring; it is just that some people have developed a habit of getting bored. In this context, spiritual directors often counsel bored people to approach what bores them seeking to give rather than to get.
Regardless of [...]
Bob Dylan correctly anticipated the pulse of the 60’s when he titled his epic 1964 album, The Times They Are A-Changin’. Those times were changing. But what about now? Are our times changing? I think so, and I have a suggestion about what is changing.
Our “defaults” are changing.
In order to explain I will need [...]
Many people today are convinced humanity is about to undergo a dramatic shift of consciousness. Whether it is the giddy notion that 2012 will bring a mass transformation of consciousness or the crushingly dark expectation that we are in the “last days,” the idea is spreading that the world as we [...]
