How counterfeit empathy became social control “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” — Albert Einstein Wokeism looks like empathy. But it’s missing the one thing that makes…
A Three-Part Mini-Series — Part Three “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” — Matthew 18:3 In Part I, we met the Builder—not a single person but an archetype, a pattern of thinking that has shaped Western…
A Three-Part Mini-Series — Part Two “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens.” — Genesis 11:4 Every tower begins with a promise. People surrender tangible wealth—time, money, labor, health—in exchange for the promise of something greater. This essay traces one of…
From 2018 to the present “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” — Winston Churchill Sometimes it pays to go back and read things I’ve written before. It sheds new light. In my post Things Are Not as They Appear, I traced the long…
A Three-Part Mini-Series — Part One “They know us better than we know ourselves. That should frighten you.” — Shoshana Zuboff, Author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Doesn’t it give you the creeps—that you’re being studied by the minute? Right now, somewhere yonder, a server is coalescing around your identity—your name,…
The Third Temple and the Hidden Pattern Behind Our Endless Wars This is the capstone to The Drama You’re In series—gathering everything that came before, adding what was missing, and bringing it all to completion. “You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.”…
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 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….
“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…
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,…
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