Society and Reality

I am back in my home town, where I experience old sounds, old smells, and the ghosts of old emotions and memories. Old thoughts… back before I ditched going to seminary, Sergio Negro said that for all his years of meditation, only on several occasions did he ever have a god experience. I wonder if […]

I have been told that when you are a manager, that even if you do not agree with your employer’s methods and values, you are expected to act as if you did with respect to your subordinates. In short, you are paid to fill a role. This seems to me the whole basis of contemporary […]

Taking the critical realist model of reality with the domain of the real and the domain of the actual; where the real is universal and the actual is particular; we can drive spirituality towards two extremes already found today. 
Driving toward the actual produces a highly individualistic conception of humanity. In the extreme, persons have infinite […]

I am convinced that all reality is dynamic, and that structure is a special case of dynamics where energy or motion is canalized such that patterns are formed. When patterns are stable for periods of time longer than our lifetime or patience to observe, they appear fixed. But in reality, they are not fixed. Humans […]