May 2014

  • The Mind of a Rock: Musings on Orr’s ‘Wakeful World’

    The Mind of a Rock: Musings on Orr’s ‘Wakeful World’

    For thousands of years, Western civilization has been living with a striking paradox. On the one hand, we are clearly physical beings living in a physical universe. And yet, we have these thoughts, feelings, dreams, and perceptions… They seem related to the physical universe, yet fundamentally different in character. We have an ‘inner’ life, which… Continue reading