“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….
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,…
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…
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.”…
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…
“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…
“I posted an offering from my heart. The algorithm returned an error. This is the oldest story we know.” —Wandering Truthweaver I write an essay. I work on it, shaping and reshaping it, pouring something I believe is true into the vessel of words. My heart is in it. I…
“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin Imagine you are given the complete technical blueprint for Notre Dame Cathedral. For years, you study it. You memorize every dimension, every load-bearing calculation, the precise geometry of the arches, the ratios that…
How the Genesis Story Maps Our Cultural War—And How to Step Out of It “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” — Genesis 3:1 A recent conversation between Dr. Iain McGilchrist and Carrie Gress, author of Something Wicked, piqued my interest. Its subject?…
“We have a tragic history of making tragic history, and then pretending it didn’t happen.” — James Howard Kunstler I’ve been reading Jim Kunstler’s World Made by Hand novels. For those who haven’t, they’re set in a not-too-distant future upstate New York after the total collapse of modern systems—peak oil,…
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