Sagan’s Folly
(audio available for paid subscribers) We like to think of the universe as a fabulously large and lavishly appointed spacetime energymatter thingamabob in which humanity
(audio available for paid subscribers) We like to think of the universe as a fabulously large and lavishly appointed spacetime energymatter thingamabob in which humanity
(audio available for paid subscribers) I wrote a thing a while ago about The Graduate, specifically the last few seconds when it is revealed to
(audio available for paid subscribers) Ralph Waldo Emerson makes the point that some people are materialists and some are materialists and idealists, but no one
(audio available for paid subscribers) Cue the sun. Christof, The Truman Show You’re in a movie right now. You’ve never been anywhere else. You’re free
(audio available for paid subscribers) I think back to before my second-stage birth and try to remember what it was like to be unsighted.
(audio available for paid subscribers) Before I begin, I’d like to point out two words in the above title which I know to be fraudulent
(audio available for paid subscribers) Although that which appears to exist knowably does not, appearance itself knowably does. The content of a dream does not
(audio available for paid subscribers) The Transcendentalist is a lecture and essay by American writer and thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is one of the
(audio available for paid subscribers) The difference between regular folk and enlightened folk is that when a regular person’s head catches on fire, they get
(audio available for paid subscribers) I’ve barely given Zen a thought in decades, and not much when I did. It’s almost completely outside my interest.