by SB Rawz | Sep 7, 2020 | The Deep Dive
In her memoir Why Religion? Elaine Pagels described noticing that she’s attracted to a female friend. A little background on her: Raised by atheist parents, she chose Christianity as both a faith tradition and focus of scholarship in her early adulthood,... by SB Rawz | Aug 17, 2020 | The Deep Dive
A handful of years ago, I asked my mom to recount for me a bit of family lore. It was the kind of story that infuses most families, so deeply interwoven that it doesn’t often occur to us to examine it more closely, to check whether the story was, in fact, woven... by SB Rawz | Aug 10, 2020 | The Deep Dive
…only the fool thinks he is wise; the wise man knows himself to be a fool. Perhaps to be educated is to be a fool. The wise man knows that for the small pile of books and experiences that lay behind him, there are infinitely more to go. ... by SB Rawz | Aug 3, 2020 | The Deep Dive
I share Shinzen Young’s equation for suffering – Pain x Resistance = Suffering – several times each week. That’s how powerful I find it: its presupposition of pain; its invitation to accept the fullness of our experiences; its simple reminder that suffering is... by SB Rawz | Jul 20, 2020 | Bigger Badder Life
I read a theory the other day that one answer to the Fermi Paradox – If the math suggests so convincingly that there are other sentient being out there in the universe, where are they? – might be that other civilizations are so advanced that they’ve uploaded their...