I Am Did ‘I’ decide to write this? Did ‘you’ decide to read it? Are we able to make choices, or is what we do determined by circumstances completely out of our control? Did either of us will our actions, or are we puppets of forces we don’t control or…

A canvas of possibility If we can’t be sure that we know the ultimate truth, what might we assume about the nature of reality? Does it have a purpose? Did it all come from nothing? Was it all by chance? You can pick the it. It could be the tree…

Truth in What Works What does it mean to have knowledge? What makes us believe we can know the truth, if we must first assume? We take invisible risks by leaving our assumptions hiding in the dark. …

The Story on Perception Imagine yourself driving on the parkway on a normal afternoon and someone from oncoming traffic suddenly enters your lane — your heart starts racing as you feel the threat of a crash and quickly steer out of the way. …

Prickles, Goo and the Divided Brain We are divided down to the core of our perception. Just as our opinions frequently contradict one another, our own minds are internally conflicted in how we should view the world. Are there opposing ways that the world actually appears to us, depending on…

The realization that safe spaces do not exist There are no safe spaces and threat forever looms under the surface. We all know this deep down and have been telling stories about it for a very long time. The awareness that we are eternally vulnerable might, in fact, be the…

One’s pursuit of balanced being One year ago, I published my first Medium post: The Way of the Warrior- Balancing the mind, body and spirit. In it I talked about balancing life and how the martial arts can provide one with tools for dealing with the adversity that will undoubtedly…

What does it mean to have power? How does it come? What should be done with it? How is it maintained? There’s an idea most often associated with a quote from the Spider-Man comic book series that reads: “With great power comes great responsibility” Variants of this saying have been…

One’s path to resentment “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of…