The Best of All Possible Stories

Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in … Continue reading The Best of All Possible Stories

Know Thyself: Between Love & Strife

Through recorded history our species has waffled between seeing our world as divinely created and inspired and the belief that we exist alone in a brutal universe and that all we have is each other, so make the best of it. The ancients moved from mythology to philosophy. Science today has moved beyond philosophy and religion to observation of matter. It seems we have always … Continue reading Know Thyself: Between Love & Strife