Night

For many, night is the signal for conviviality and entertainment. As if the glare of daylight inhibits emotions, night is nearly everywhere viewed as a time of ...

Snow Monkey

As an addenda to reflections on the possibility of a mystic personality (previous post) is this photo of a Japanese macaca or snow monkey, made famous by the do...

Mystic personality

Western mystics describe similar experiences, but there is no mystic personality type. Nor, strictly speaking, are they necessarily solitaries or even introvert...

Purpose

Teleology is an Aristotelean and medieval scholastic term meaning “purpose.” In its simplest form, teleology is easily demonstrated by example: the ...

Darkness

The most cogent of prophetic statements are not those that lament the corruption of their generation. Every generation thinks itself to be cursed with the worst...

Karma

In Hindu and Buddhist tradition, karma is the cumulative effect of past circumstances on the present moment. We may extend the concept to include one’s be...