Before we get up on our high horses, it is a good idea to recognize efforts to demonize “others” as another opportunity for spotting "the shadow" of our own, all too recent, excesses of puritan zeal and religious violence…

The images of the sun, the moon, the planets moving in their spheres-the very idea that we are part of a celestial dance that progresses in this serene, dignified fashion eon after eon with great predictability-every planet moving through its great elliptical phases ~ All of these energies impacting our little planet and we, as little, human receptors of these vast energies…

This is one of the curious ways that the religious impulse follows us into secular society - In front of the computer screen most of us are brought to our knees - worshipping at the altar of Techne.

Since I know better, why can't I live better?

We are justified in returning to this troubling question again and again – it is certainly at the heart of ethics - and the core of my teaching thus far has been to acquaint students with the discrepancies between what we say we value, by our language, and what we demonstrably value by our actions, both as individuals and as a nation…

Rock ‘n’ roll was a celebration of congregation. But we don’t have the brains to answer the question of what it was that rock ‘n’ roll tried to start and has failed to finish: Who are we? What is our function? What is our worth?…