“This” reality is all we have. Then why don’t we see it for what it truly is? — Is all of life an elaborate trail of breadcrumbs scattered in unsuspecting corners just to lead us back home? During one of my mad foraging for a quick fiction fix, an invisible hand’s roll of dice landed Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter right on top of my Kindle reading list. Sci-fi…

When you see a hummingbird, do you see it as what it is or as what you expect it to be? — For the majority of us, the year 2020 was a year of loss on one level or the other. Be it grief from a loved one’s passing, anxiety brought on by disrupted plans, despair over shattered hopes and dreams, or plain edginess caused by upheaval in our reliable routines, there…

How Chomsky’s theory of language shook up my understanding of thoughts and consciousness — Controversial Linguist Noam Chomsky, the Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and an Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT, is something of an iconoclast. A controversial yet respected member of the linguistic intelligentsia, Prof. Chomsky has amassed critics and supporters alike, but none to dispute his brilliance in the field.

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To know how, look at the emotion ‘Awe’ — There is a scene in the 2019 animated movie Abominable where the teenager Yi along with her buddies takes the lost lil’ Yeti across China to his home on Mount Everest. Among the various idyllic locales that the unusual foursome traveled en route to the Himalayas, there was one destination…

And it had nothing to do with medicine or health — Believe me when I say that I’m already cringing at this title for its clickbait slant. But, simple truths sometimes come packaged in a cliché wrap, so here goes — The drama of mothering When my first baby was born healthy and beautiful, I was over-obsessed with every tiny detail about him just like…

My attempt at meditation and its surprising side effect — The single most loudest and chaotic place in this world, hands down, has got to be one’s mind. I never really noticed while milling about the business of living just how loud it can really get up there. …

Our desperate “wanting” for something is what is stopping us from getting it — The tectonic quivers that Krian Trace’s Tools For Sanity had set forth refuse to die down long after I swiped the last page. Snippets of wisdom from the book have been gnawing at my brain now and then, and one such ripple that had been lapping at my wits is…

Enlightenment has long been established as the zenith in a person’s spiritual journey, the grand goal in our search for the ultimate truth.