I’m recently back from two weeks in the Anza Borrego Desert in southeast California and I’m still digesting the journey. There is something liberating in calling an experience a journey. Journeys can be defined in many ways — they usually have a beginning, middle and end and can be bracketed by time, place, or process (like travel). But what I find to be compelling is the sense that “no feeling… Read More »
Our current paradigm of knowledge, rooted in reason, logic, and the scientific method, originates from the Greek tradition. “Logos” is the Greek word for “word.”
Logic, identified with reason, is a process of expression, a means of bringing forth and articulating concepts that are fundamental and beyond the direct reach of the words used to elucidate those deeper thoughts. Thus, in the Bible we read, “In the beginning was the… Read More »
Eve… of Destruction or Renewal?
These two mythologies – Judeo-Christianity and the primacy of “logos,” the world of language, thinking, and reason –structure and underlie many of our daily dramas in modern life. They combine to create a sense of value that is abstract, above-it-all, and not present. Thought is abstract; heaven is abstract. Both are distant from and uneasy with physical life. The old-testament gods are not of the… Read More »
Adam and Newton: The Apple and the Fig
The current age desperately needs a new mythology. We’ve inherited ways of looking at the world that no longer work, that are unsustainable and have toxic consequences. We still live under the influence of paradigms that are centuries or millennia old, paradigms that are unable to provide us with the insights and tools necessary to lead a life in balance, a… Read More »
Myth and Reality
This linkage with the infinite has of course been the intent of the great mythologies and religions; the healing creative and expressive arts; and the dreams we dream at night” … Joseph Campbell
Myths are more… Read More »
