Writing a compelling piece of non-fiction is challenging. It requires a careful balance of factual competency and artful narration – the facts and ideas you are trying to convey need to come alive for the reader. So far, everything written on Spiral Inquiry has been non-fiction. That is, until now. With the inspiration of the Better […]
Originally posted on wwedenborgcenterconcord.org on Feb 28, 2017. Sexuality seems to be a simple binary characteristic of human and animal physiology. But modern science has begun to unravel some extraordinary complexities in the way male and female physiology and behavior develops, and reveals a wide variety in how individuals experience their sexuality. Many of our cultural […]
Maria Popova writes an amazing and erudite blog called brain pickings. A recent post, drawing from her 2019 book “Figuring,” describes an important link between the personalities, and the speculations, of physicist Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958) and psychologist Carl Jung (1875-1961). Physics and psyche, in their view, are not contradictory, but complementary efforts to comprehend reality in […]
Is omnipresent, instantaneous communication driving us to an increasingly short-term perspective? In the frothy sea of broadcast and social media, is our society losing the ability to focus on long-term objectives and deep concepts? In this environment, the Long Now movement is more important than ever. Long Now Boston‘s monthly Conversation Series is part of […]
It is often said that technology is value neutral – what determines whether it is good or evil depends on the uses that people make of it. Once touted as the great power equalizer and democratizer of information and influence, the World Wide Web is now seen by many as a threat to personal autonomy […]
