Without the transcendent and the transpersonal we get sick, violent, and nihilistic, or hopeless and apathetic. We need something “bigger than we are” to be awed by and commit ourselves to in a new naturalistic, empirical, non-churchy sense. Perhaps as Thoreau and Whitman, william James and John Dewey did.

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There is a cyclic drama inherent in every portion of nature…and all points in that drama are mere stages along the way…whether our perspective is broad enough to perceive that vision or not. Reality is dynamic, subject to many forces that drive it on, and always above all else, it seeks balance. The Greeks called this drama hubris and nemesis, the Hindus the law of karma. It serves the same truth… that arroganc... Read More

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