Not long ago my wife, Ana, attended a five-day meditation retreat. Early in the event the speaker, Joe Dispenza, spoke about the difference between trying to make things happen and drawing them into being — between seeing a goal as something you have to travel toward,...
“What is the sound of one hand clapping?” ask the Zen masters. Scientists do not have a ready answer for that one — but last week they did record the sound of two black holes merging, a sound that had never before been heard by humans. Using two massive sensors, one...
His beard was black, His beard was long; He always sang A pirate song. But now he’s dead, He went and died. And his grave is The last thing I spied. You know who wrote that masterpiece of verse? Me, at age ten. Yes yes, cute; I know. But let’s be honest here: as...
When I was fourteen I spent a year being depressed. Most of my life, I’d been a pretty happy kid. But not for the year that stretched from mid-’68 to mid-’69. Part of it was that for that year, we moved to another state. My dad was on sabbatical, my mother on...
