If Part 1 was the dream of playing Emperor —pointing at a map and declaring "Build me a wall!"—then Part 2 is the soggy Monday morning when you realize the wall was built over a swamp, the stones are actually...
Imagine, if you will, the Roman Empire at its height. The Emperor didn’t wake up and fret over the exact angle a legionnaire should hold a shovel to dig a trench. He simply pointed at a map and declared, "I...
Imagine standing in an ancient forest. Gigantic trees stretch toward the sky, looking like lonely towers of strength. You might think the forest is just a collection of these individual giants standing side-by-side.
But that is a beautiful illusion.
If you could...
Whenever I hear the word "Karma," my mind doesn't go to ancient scriptures or mountain-top gurus. It goes to that moment when I instinctively slam on the brakes because a red car swerved two lanes over. I didn't think about...
In my everyday meditation practice, I have a routine to sit quietly, stay still, and observe how my mind wanders. Depending on what’s happened or what is going to happen in the time proximity, I have a series of thought patterns...
The primary difference between a CD player and a Radio is that while both play sound, one stores all the content locally. At the same time, the other is purely a receiver of information from an external source. Artificial...
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History is replete with examples showing how societies run by regimes that curtail free speech slide toward authoritarianism, stifling the growth and...
All realities exist outside our brains, except for those elements that make up our brains. It implies that everything we know about reality merely represents those concepts inside our minds. A small error in the model and we miss...
There is a quiet beauty in looking back at a simpler times, though not necessarily easier. For those of us who grew up during the baby boomer years, our memories are painted with hues of innocence and resilience, woven...
From the moment I learned to read confidently, puzzles had me under their spell. I have always been curious to know how things work.I remember being a wide-eyed twelve-year-old when my brother-in-law introduced me to a brainteaser involving two...