The Terror Management Theory of Everything Warning! Scientific experiments have proven that if you read the following story, you will likely be changed. Your ideas about religion, politics — yes, even your appreciation of art and beauty will be changed… at least temporarily. So if you like the way you feel about ... … Read entire article »

Dehumanization is what the new world order is all about. Cold and merciless impersonal life forces determine what life will be like inside the blank walls of the corporate monolith. In a time before video arcades there were penny arcades where, amidst the bustling arena of flashing lights and the clatter ... … Read entire article »

Energy and consciousness can neither be destroyed nor created. All that is and all that you are exists for eternity. If it exists, there is no such thing as it not existing. Since there are only transfers of energy, what you perceive as death is simply a portal to another ... … Read entire article »

Before 2012 slips away it’s worth remembering that this is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s hugely influential book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which was itself revolutionary, and has sold more than a million copies worldwide. Almost every time you hear the word ‘paradigm’, Kuhn’s book ... … Read entire article »

Never let school interfere with your education. ~ Mark Twain. Education is an ongoing confrontation between those who want to help children learn how to think, and those who want to teach them what to think. While there are numerous variations on these themes, the contrast can most clearly be found ... … Read entire article »

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. My concern here is with the bigger picture. I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow ... … Read entire article »

We are now told it’s selfish and greedy to promote freedom for the individual. It’s old-fashioned. It’s passe. It’s dangerous. It’s nothing more than a ruse floated by the rich to hold down the poor. Forget about the fact that the next Einstein or Tesla, growing up in what has become ... … Read entire article »

Recently the fates wafted me upon a cloud of second-hand smoke onto a national television show. Let me explain. I grew up during the time when smoking was very common and occurred everywhere. I spent my first eighteen years enveloped in tobacco smoke as my father smoked constantly – only a pipe ... … Read entire article »

It’s not hard for any moderately observant person to see the oppressiveness of the state all around us. We are taxed, regulated, coerced, controlled, patted down, pulled over, censored, cited, and sued anytime we step outside of the ever-changing boundaries prescribed by the political and bureaucratic classes. Many take umbrage ... … Read entire article »

When flying cross-country recently, I stood in line like everyone else for the TSA “security” check and thought about Judge Andrew Napolitano’s recent book, A Nation of Sheep. How did Americans, once known for their independence and fierce devotion to their rights, become people who easily are herded, abused, and ... … Read entire article »

Some people apparently think there are no fake victims, only real ones. They believe that if all the oppression in the world were magically lifted tomorrow, people would suddenly become independent. I don’t believe that. I raise these issues because I think it’s time for some honest input. When I went to ... … Read entire article »

We want to know what exists. We want to know it at the bottom of the sea and out in the stars and within our own minds and in realms outside the normal channels of perception. Of course we want to journey to those places and find out what’s there. We ... … Read entire article »