Seriously. I had this thought when I saw, there in the ice cream section at the local grocery store.  Sitting beside the Skinny Cow ice cream sammichs, sat Enlightenment ice cream bars.  My next thought was about porn.  In my defense, I just drove 1600 miles in a day and a half and my brain is doing it’s own thing.  This is what came from those two thoughts. What is spiritual enlightenment?  How do you (used sorta generally here) know? So, then, what exactly are you looking f

Aaaaaahhhh…expectations…what I’ve called a pesky little stupid human trick that keeps coming back to bite us in the buttocks.  It’s not just a mental habit, it’s part of freakin’ biology.  Sorta helps us figure things out, make sense of chaos.  Whether we are actually mentally seeking (or presuming to see) patterns to create stability in surrounding chaos or, as according to a new study released in Nature Neuroscience,  our eyes and brain do that for us.  According to the stu

The other day I was struck with a string of questions.  They didn’t necessarily emerge from any real, in-depth thought.  Not things I’ve been ruminating on but they just came in a burst.  A rather long one but what are you gonna do?  Turn it off?  Methinks not.  So I put pen to paper and let it flow. Here’s what came: Why is it that some have such an issue with what I’ll call “just knowing” of the instant kind?  We eat like instant oatmeal, instant communications, quick meals