Not so long ago, walking the dog along a wooded path on a cool foggy morning, deep in contemplation, quietly asking god for help in seeing the truth, came the thunderstruck realization that my…

When I was a kid my older sister was tasked with teaching me and my brother how to pray to god before bed. So each night she’d come in and help us recite the prayer,…

In the beginning a story was told and retold until, eventually, I was born. Over the years I felt increasingly unhappy with its story. It had had no say in it, and frankly, one…

Across the planet millions – if not billions – of people believe Jesus or a similar prophet of their choice, will at some point return to kick ass, take names, right all the wrongs…

I recently went through another one of those stretches where, while my mind was busy agitating over some drama about which I was certain I was ‘right’ and could be of use to another, a…

Jesus, the Buddha, Lao Tzo, Ramana Maharshi, Rumi, and scores of other mystics simply and consistently stated that our lone goal in this world is to (re)discover our true nature, the central conceit being that a…