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The subject of God, religion and divinity has always fascinated me and propelled my decades long quest for answers. I have found many explanations spanning several layers of analysis and I decided to write a brief summary of my discoveries in order to help me organize my own thoughts and understanding. I have also had personal experiences and intuitions of the nature of God and the divine. I will try to isolate each layer in its own section, though they all touch on philosophy, metaphysics and ...

The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky? the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every meadow, every humming insect. All are holy in the memory and experience of my people. We know the sap which courses thr ...

What is a conspiracy theory anyway? Sometimes the term is deployed against anyone who questions authority, dissents from dominant paradigms, or thinks that hidden interests influence our leading institutions. As such, it is a way to quash dissent and bully those trying to stand up to abuses of power. One needn’t abandon critical thinking to believe that powerful institutions sometimes collude, conspire, cover up, and are corrupt.

Our institutions of knowledge production have betrayed p ...

A frightened public accepts abridgements of civil liberties that are otherwise hard to justify, such as the tracking of everyone’s movements at all times, forcible medical treatment, involuntary quarantine, restrictions on travel and the freedom of assembly, censorship of what the authorities deem to be disinformation, suspension of habeas corpus, and military policing of civilians. Many of these were underway before Covid-19; since its advent, they have been irresistible.

The point he ...