Category Archives: jacks corner

One thing I’ve notice about growing older is that I think a lot about growing older. It’s a very interesting and ever-evolving transition, offering many opportunities for reflection, and one that most of us will have the chance to experience. … Continue reading →

In a podcast I listened to recently, the speaker made the familiar point that the age of adulthood in our culture has been pushed back, so that young people live in a state of arrested development. With no real grip … Continue reading →

Most people find it difficult to make positive changes in their lives—whether in terms of patterns of behavior, ways of thinking, or ways of acting and reaction. Again and again, we act against our own values and ideals, our own … Continue reading →

As children of scientific materialism and the Newtonian enlightenment, we are used to thinking of space and the universe as objectively real. But that is only a story we tell, a way of interpreting experience. It’s a good story for … Continue reading →

The most dangerous form of arrogance is the arrogance we take for granted, the arrogance that colors our understanding so completely that we do not even see it as arrogance. In our culture, such all-pervasive, self-evident arrogance often involves the … Continue reading →

It is time to start this blog site moving again, after a long absence. I have used the term “stepping out” in the title of this post, because it came up in a discussion with a friend. We need to … Continue reading →

People get very excited about lucid dreaming, but there is a simpler kind of lucidity I think it would be nice to cultivate (or manifest) in dreams. In our waking lives, there are certain questions that deeply interest us. Some … Continue reading →