Pray or Prey / Prophet or Profit / Worship or Warship / Parish or Perish Is the English Language Talking Back to Us? I believe that it is – and...

After watching my 2010 YouTube video, The Secret Spells of the English Language, people want to know ‘Who did this to us?’ It’s a really good question and is perhaps…

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly”. Buckminster Fuller, 20th C American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist   One…

Fu: The Buddha Bat of Happiness My Life’s Dream began to flow in earnest about two or three years after I was born. The significant event marking its commencement occurred...

In a 1958 television interview, Aldous Huxley predicted the technological capability to bypass reason and manipulate behavior through subliminal means. …” Dr. Joseph Mercola[1] I just had the oddest experience…

There’s a rather obscure and unattractive synonym for procrastinator that makes the word seem like an even more opprobrious pejorative –– or ‘scornful expression of contempt or disapproval.’ That word…

“Man’s deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And when there is an epidemic, the group mind takes over.”…

Verbal Sonar: Words aMaze and Fasten8 us in part because we are almost never free of them. They enter through our eyes and ears, trip off our tongues, pour out our fingertips, rattle...

In our 2nd session of the WordMagic WordShoppe, one of the participants introduced us to the Japanese word moai [moe-eye], which essentially means, ‘meeting for a common purpose.’ This is…

“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies…

Thoughts for a Divinely Loving Valentine’s Day[1] When I was 20, I read these beautiful words in The Phenomenon of Man by the French paleontologist and Jesuit priest, Teilhard de…