The Gift We No Longer Understand
Why We Struggle to Receive—and What It’s Costing Us “The I-Thou relationship can only be spoken with the whole being. The I-It relationship can never be spoken with the whole being.” — Martin Buber We no longer know what a gift is. The word still circulates—on birthdays, in advertisements, through…
The Voice We Lost: How We Learned to Silence Half Our Mind
“The woman whom thou gavest to be with me—she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.” — Genesis 3:12 The First Audit Listen to the first words spoken by a newly self-aware humanity. They are not filled with curiosity, wonder, or love. They are an audit. An accounting….
Four Wounds of the Western Mind
“The left hemisphere’s greatest triumph is the creation of a world that conforms to its own representation—and its greatest tragedy is that it has come to believe that this is the only world there is.” — Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary Three Diagnoses Last week gave us three…
Your Brain on Genesis: 200 Images, One Pattern
After my dream yesterday morning—the one with the alligator and the caramel popcorn—I did my usual routine: water with apple cider vinegar, sea salt, lemon juice, and a couple of coffees. Then something else came to me. The left brain processes language, sequence, logic. The right brain processes wholes, patterns,…
The Alligator and the Caramel Popcorn
A Dream, a Dog, and What It Taught Me About Consciousness I opened my eyes this morning and a thought was already there, fully formed: Consciousness is a word. And if we did not have that word, we would not know what it is. The moment I thought it, I…
The Bridge of Choice
How Your Brain Chooses Between Control and Love “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” — 2 Corinthians 12:9 I’ve spent my life feeling pulled in two directions. One voice drives me to name, plan, and secure: “Build your tower. Prove your worth.”…
Babel Fire to Pentecost Flame
The Algorithm of Exile and the Mercy of Scattering “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” — Genesis 11:4 The Summit of…
The Grammar of Consciousness: An Odyssey
“Where are you?” — Book of Genesis 3:9 I’m writing a book. Not just any book. The story. Call it An Odyssey, from antiquity to modernity. It began as a conversation between two parts of myself. One part spoke first. “I’m not very smart,” it said. “But I ask a…
The Family Within
What Neuroscience and Genesis Reveal About the Five Who Live Inside You “Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, after our likeness.’” — Genesis 1:26 Us. Our. God does not begin with “I.” From the first sentence, there is conversation. For centuries, theologians have circled this plural…
How the Algorithm Builds a World
“I am not fighting a bad habit. I am re-enacting a 5,000-year-old systems failure.” — Wendy Williamson My last essay ended with the algorithm live in my chest. The Auditor had won. He’d silenced the Steward, deleted the offering (my essay that received no likes or comments), and deemed the…