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Clock constructed in 1390 at Wells Cathedral What is balanced time perspective? and why is it wyrd and highly strange? Well you may ask! Balanced time perspective is... the often nonconscious process whereby the continual flows of personal and social experiences are assigned to temporal categories, or time frames, that help to give order, coherence, and meaning to those events. ( Zimbardo and Boyd ) Some of us lean more into the past, some into the future, and some are firmly

The UFO Welcome Center , Bowman, SC, burned to the ground in 2024. Sadly, I never got to visit. This weekend, I visited my best friend...

I am betting you can finish that phrase, especially with the TV as a hint. I think the first time I ever heard of Marshall McLuhan was in...

Kali, artist unknown, ca. 1865, Victoria & Albert Museum What goes around, comes around. Kali first showed up for me in 2018. She stood...

Birthday, 1915, Marc Chagall - © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Levitation. Did I ever disbelieve it?...

Film still from "Arrival"* What's your take on free will? Are you fer it or agin it? Or do you shrug when you hear the phrase? Or does it...

Film still from Dario Robleto 's transcendent "Ancient Beacons Long for Notice." Last year, I saw the projected experience, " Ancient...

Table top view of some of the Mercury suit components including gloves, boots, and helmet; 1961 (NASA) I don't know to describe what this...

Model of a Brookes slave ship , (c) Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives I just remembered that after my experience with a "presence,"...

Photo credit: Corey Coyle I've been caught up in The Phenomenon recently, watching videos, listening to podcasts, reading books. I've...

Illustration of Tria Prima, from a German alchemical ms., c. 1600, Yale University Library When I try to look at a star in the night sky,...

An underwater bubble ring, similar to those made by humpback whales, possibly as a form of communication . Here is an example of how...

The Torment of St Anthony (1487), Michelangelo (1475-1564) Did you read the caption of this photo and do the math? Michelangelo was 12 or...

Cary Grant and Constance Bennett star in "Topper" (1937) There's a lot to say about how media affects us humans. Probably I will say more...

Photo: Frederick Hudson, Album of Spirit Photographs , Metropolitan Museum of Art "How do I know I'm not dead?" That question arose like...

Memento mori photo: " Long exposures when taking photographs meant that the dead were often seen more sharply than the slightly-blurred...

Black Bull and Stabs-by-Mistake at lower end of Cutbank Canyon ( Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park , 1916) Worldviews  can be...

Navajo Yeibichai (1904; Edward Curtis, photographer) Indigenous peoples have ceremonies and rituals to invoke supernatural support, such...

Curiosity is my constant companion, my guiding source. It wakes me up in the morning and keeps me up at night. In between, it fuels my...