The Equation of Perception

How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life? Warning: Math Alert! I’ve often heard the question, “Why does time seem to go so slow when we’re kids but so quickly when we’re older?” While pondering this a few years ago, I arrived at a possible answer. At theContinue reading “The Equation of Perception”

Illusions, Delusions, and Hallucinations

A few years back, I told someone that fantasies were good things. They are especially necessary for older people, and older men in particular, because they provide hope that can sustain us through otherwise dark times. The manifestations of the imagination listed in the title are very different, however, and can provide various levels ofContinue reading “Illusions, Delusions, and Hallucinations”

Synchronicity

If humans had taglines, what would yours be? With one breath, with one flowYou will know synchronicityA sleep trance, a dream danceA shared romance, synchronicity These lyrics come from song by The Police, “Synchronicity I.” Synchronicity is, of course, the phenomenon that makes us think things happen for a reason; the shape and give meaningContinue reading “Synchronicity”