Three Bridges West, a San Francisco film company, recently interviewed me for a movie they are producing on the topic of Consciousness. This week they released a short video featuring my thoughts on the question “What is God?” as well as my reasons for starting Spiral Inquiry earlier this year. AUDIO TRANSCRIPT: George Gantz […]
Playing in the Deep, Deep SAND of Science and Non-Duality
It’s difficult to describe the experience of SAND US 17 – four days crowded with presentations, and experiential sessions – ending with a human mandala (video) as nearly 1,000 attendees assembled on the lawn and then dispersed, guided by the light of their phones. Synchronicity, the sense that apparently random encounters often lead to deeply […]
Don’t Drain the Swamp – We Have Too Much to Learn | Swedenborg Foundation
This week, my essay What Swamps Teach us About Spiritual Life appeared in Swedenborg Foundation’s Spirituality in Practice blog. Here’s a quick review: Yes, our world seems to be mired in anxiety and fear; and civic discourse has degenerated to accusations, outright lies, and rhetoric. We hear calls to “drain the swamp,” but it never seems […]
Why Exponential Predictions Are Always Wrong – Population, Technology and Resources
I’ve written on the ways that cognitive bias can derail rational thinking, both on Spiral Inquiry and in the Forum on the Integration of Science and Spirituality, but there’s another major pathway to error — we get the numbers wrong. One of the biggest mistakes is to believe in exponential trends. An exponential trend is […]
The World is Getting Better | PEP Talks
This may come as a surprise, but by many measures, the world is a much better place than it used to be. Philosopher Thomas Hobbes once said the life of man was “nasty, brutish and short.” But average life expectancy worldwide has steadily increased in the past century and jumped up in the past 15 […]
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