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There is a line from an old Simon and Garfunkel song called The Boxer (supposedly about Bob Dylan) that has forever stuck in my head: “…a man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest.” There are many versions of this popular truth in use, such as “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” or “The world is as we see it,” or perhaps even Descartes’ philosophical koan, “I think, therefore I

Event horizon: a boundary in space time used to describe the apparent edge around a black hole, beyond which nothing can be seen.

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I was on the phone recently with my friend Doug in San Francisco discussing the calamitous weather in the Midwest and the current wildfires in California. “What’s next,” he quipped, “plagues of locusts?” “Well, we’re certainly overrun by bugs in Iowa,” I

The word karma is now in familiar usage in the west. Like the words “guru” (spiritual teacher) and “pandit” (Vedic priest), both are of which are now used to refer to experts in anything from hair products to investment portfolios, it is heavily misunderstood and misused.

Actress Sharon Stone recently got into trouble for touting her own brand of lipstick diplomacy when she offered her

Sifting through the usual well thumbed magazines in the waiting room at Dr. Love’s Alternative Health Clinic (yes that is his real name) I stumbled upon an interesting pamphlet someone had left. Originally published in 1875 by the Rev. John Wesley Hanson, it was an 88-page treatise (with comprehensive footnotes) on the meaning of two Greek words, Aion and Aionios, as translated and used in the

During Dennis Kucinich’s 2004 presidential bid I was asked by one his party organizers what I thought might be a good rallying call for his campaign. “No more lies,” I suggested. One of the big political issues then was (and still is) the Iraq War. Kucinich was claiming, quite rightly as it now turns out, that the war was entered into on false pretences. Unfortunately, at the time not enough