Nature of Belief: Escaping Cultural Confinement
[Exploring Life] Culture may be viewed as a universal tendency for people within stable geographic populations to create sets of beliefs, values and expectations that serve to create a sense of social coherence. It may be that culture is an offspring of the innate human need to belong. Perhaps culture originated as groups of people [...]
Time: Dreaming Time
[Exploring Life] Defining time is an immensely difficult task. We superimpose clocks and calendars as a means to orient ourselves to the natural cycles of the earth. Both clocks and calendars are ideas that serve to create presuppositions about how we relate to the movement and flow of our lives. A “new year” is a [...]
Mental Degradation: Habit – Involuntary Routines
How much of our experience is driven by involuntary tendencies and habits? Understanding the nature and essence of habit in our lives is an essential task. Habits are both inevitable and unavoidable. They are a medium of perception; a complex network of filters that influence how we interpret and orient ourselves to everyday life. The [...]
Aging: What should I do with my life?
[Exploring Life] Aristotle posed the question, How should a human being lead his life? It is a universal question that touches every human life on the planet. For some, the question visits us only once in a while; for other, it relentlessly pursues our attention and demands intimacy. In What should I do with my [...]