When we wake from a dream, we realize it wasn’t real. If we examine the dream, with a little insight and a little luck the message can be received. If the dream were a nightmare, then we’re not left bereft, confused, or traumatized by it … if we got...
Emergence, forever Once in a great while, humanity experiences a breakthrough, whether technological, scientific, social, or spiritual. The organizing force of evolution and the tendency toward greater complexity organically produces emergent properties. Occasionally,...
Mystery of the Trinity Trinity refers to a mysterious concept of three aspects of one essence and is found often in religious and mythological descriptions of deities or Gods. The trinity is so prevalent that the renowned psychologist Carl Jung considered the...
“The ‘design’ of plants and animals and traditional artifacts did not just happen. As a rule, both the shape and materials of any structure which has evolved over a long period of time in a competitive world represents an optimization…”...
Evolve, or die. Viruses compete with humans for survival in the arena of evolution. A virus survives by evolving new infection mechanisms, while a human survives viral attacks by evolving new immunities. Viruses are agile and mutate to survive. Humans are agile, too,...
It’s a Trap! Humans confuse words with the things they represent. It’s easy to forget, for example, that “money” represents something else. In the same way that the word “money” is not money, a picture of a dollar bill is not a...
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