February 2009

If you heard on the radio that a man was being accused of beheading his wife, and someone offered you a $10,000 prize to guess the man’s religion, what would be your final answer?

Tolle weakly challenges Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am.” What is existence without thought? That sounds like a very good description of inanimate matter.

You can repress parts of your personality, but you can never eliminate them. What Tolle has done is to repress what Carl Jung would have called the shadow self.

Best selling New-Age author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) recently delivered a TED talk in which she called into question the role of the human mind in the creative process.

I saw that I had touched a nerve. What do I know? I don’t spend a hundred days a year flying.

Ubiquitous religious symbols, logos, steeples and minarets–not to mention fear and dogma–permeate every city and town on the planet, and fail to even dent man’s inhumanity to man.

Most water is billions of years old and all of it has been recycled one way or another. And yes it’s true, there is at least one water molecule in your body from every historical figure, human and animal.

It is more comforting for people to believe that some vicious people had infiltrated our government at the top, than that we were so badly beaten by a few losers with box cutters.

The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society. Accumulating data from across the globe reveal a wide array of effects.