Looking At/With/Beyond to Have Peak Experiences
January 25, 2026
The psychologist Abraham Maslow made peak experiences his business, and he explored them in Toward a Psychology of Being. Many people today know him for
Revolutionizing Perspective by Expanding from Looking At to Looking At/With/Beyond
January 10, 2026
During the Axial Age, in the mid-first millennium BCE, some of humanity’s most influential teachers lived, mental horizons in the West, the Middle East, India,
Today’s Potential for a New Axial Age
January 4, 2026
Some historians of thought have called it humanity’s most influential period. The philosopher Carl Jaspers called the time between 800 BCE and 300 BCE the
Why Gilgamesh Still Matters
December 26, 2025
Sumerians created a system of writing that was robust enough for literature more than 5,000 years ago. It was initially used to record inventories and
From Truth to Expansion; Updating Basic Ideas
November 29, 2025
A recent article here began to explore ways that ideas of truth can vary in different cultures. A common theme I’ve found has been constancy.
Many Worlds on Bangkok’s Streets
November 10, 2025
The first kings in Thailand’s new Chakri Dynasty grounded Bangkok in Thai traditions in the late 18th and early 19th centuries by erecting monuments in
Many Worlds in a Place at Bangkok’s Wat Pho
November 2, 2025
Thais needed to rebuild their world after Burmese armies traumatized them by sacking Ayutthaya, the capital of their largest kingdom, in 1767. The first king
Stones and Abundance in Native American Cultures in California
October 12, 2025
The archaeologist Paul MacKendrick wrote a book about ancient Italy called The Mute Stones Speak. But for First Americans in California, stones aren’t mute; they
The Buddha’s Footprint at Bangkok’s Wat Pho; Prettier than Zeus and Indra Combined
September 30, 2025
Wat Pho is the second of the three monuments that the first Chakri kings established in Bangkok’s center to reaffirm traditional Thai ways of perceiving