The Biology Of Love Part III Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin One of the highlights of the Mendocino trip … [Read more…]
The Biology Of Love part II After nearly 50 years of marriage and nearly 40 years of collaborative learning with young people, I am convinced that females have a deeply embedded sense of spirituality that males lack. I know very little about The Bible, but I suspect that there is profound real and or … [Read more…]
The Biology Of Love part I “Love, the Answer to the Problem of Human Existence.” Erich Fromm Aaron ( blog #1) recently contacted me asking for a good quote that would be appropriate for a “second-chance” marriage. His girlfriend had just “said yes” and he wanted something special to share with her. My … [Read more…]
Enthusiasm was contagious. Typically, each Biodesign class session began with a lesson plan. However, students were encouraged to bring in photos, articles, quotes, or questions, all of which could send us off on a merry chase looking for truth, beauty and goodness. Here is an example. I wrote the piece on enthusiasm several weeks … [Read more…]
The Sky People “The story of The Garden of Eden is a greater allegory than man has ever guessed…Time and darkness, knowledge of good and evil have walked with him ever since. Loren Eiseley. Eisely is not necessarily (if even) referring to a religious construct. He is suggesting that if we are … [Read more…]
Windows—Walls—Bridges Whether BOFAW-Fb viewers have noticed or not, we have been engaged in a delightful game of “spiritual ping-pong” with NatureIsUs. We serve up our best photo, poem or quotation to pique or excite their love of Nature and they respond with a dazzling photo worth 10,000 words. It is a heavenly game because … [Read more…]
Consciousness, Free Will and Values “One of the great unresolved paradoxes of science involves consciousness, free will and values, three long-standing thorns in the hide of science. Materialist science couldn’t cope with any of them, even in principle. It’s not just that they’re difficult. They’re in direct conflict with basic models. Science has … [Read more…]
Turtles Teens and Sasha The Potter: A Cautionary Tale “Opening clay is like opening up to others; you never know what you are going to find, either in you or them.” Sasha. As the clay turned obediently in Sasha’s firm and knowing grip, his mind was spinning tales involving prose, poems and metaphors … [Read more…]
Flower Power The weight of a petal has changed the face of the world and made it ours. Loren Eiseley. The “Hippies” or “Flower Children” had legitimate concerns about the spiritually corrupting influence of material worship. “Wheels,” for them, were often a cheap form of transportation. They could also be, however, a sarcastic … [Read more…]
Prayer, Work & Carnival Readers of BOFAW learned that I probably would not have included “Wayne,” were it not for a story about very mysterious “dancing frogs,” that appeared in Loern Eiseley’s, “The Star Thrower.” The thoughtful, although challenging, introduction was written by poet laureate, W.H. Auden. “A satisfactory … [Read more…]