The average person thinks of himself as a body topped by a head with a mind, governed by an ego. And because he so strongly identifies with his body and ego, he fears anything that might threaten them, which leads to a fairly angst-ridden existence.But when we read and hear the teachings great spiritual masters [...]

The other day I sent my sweet mother, a devout lifelong Lutheran, an email about my religious and spiritual beliefs. It was a topic she had skirted for decades, probably out of fear of what she would learn and what if would mean for my eternal salvation. Mom was surprised to hear me say I [...]

We humans don’t have the mental capacity to conceive of something as expansive and magnificent as God. But we want to have some divine concept to grasp on to so we’ve done the best we could—we’ve created our ideas and mental images of God. And because we are unable to conceive of God but are [...]

I can’t tell you how many emails I’ve gotten from beekeepers informing me that worker bees are female (Buzz, the main character in To Bee or Not to Bee, is male). Female beekeepers in particular are bothered by this as they feel a gender affinity with their “girls,” who work so hard to provide them [...]

Two people earn $50,000 annually. One needs $70,000 to live on. The other needs only $30,000. They both earn the same amount–who is wealthier? And why?
Recently I watched Larry King interviewing Chris Angel, the amazing illusionist, on TV. If you aren’t familiar with him, Chris is the new David Copperfield but in a rock star [...]

It is ironic that one of the key processes enabling human evolution—normalization—also holds it back. Normalization is the tendency of the human mind to gradually turn new and fascinating phenomena into the normal and humdrum. While it serves a valuable purpose in that it frees the mind to deal with the daily onslaught of new [...]