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I’ve been thinking about late bloomers lately, since I’m one myself. Jesus’ parable of the vineyard workers is about late bloomers (Mat...

I’m more of a writer than a mystic.   I can claim no great attainment.   Sometimes I think I’ve received whatever spiritual experiences I’v...

I wrote this several years ago but never posted it until now.   This essay provides background information for my "Christianity:   T...

  I wrote this in 2010, about an incident that happened to me in 1985. In 1985, in my ignorance, I performed an experiment upon myself....

Las Cruces artist/Renaissance Man Bob Diven drew this vertigo-inducing hole in the fabric of reality at Farmer's Market this morning.  W...

Street art; chalk on asphalt.  Striding quickly to my destination at Farmer's Market last Saturday, I saw this out of the corner of my e...

I wrote this little exercise in applied sociology a couple of years ago. A friend pointed out that we need not wait for an economic crash ...

Another unposted essay, without a real ending, evidently written a couple of years ago.   After a lifetime of living with myself, I’ve lea...

Evidently I never posted this one. At least, there are no posts with this title in the New Earth Times archives. And it lacks a proper endin...

Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, in their article "The (Elusive) Theory of Everything," which appeared in the October 2010 is...

I started this for Grassroots Press but never finished it.   I used to consider myself quite the all-American boy. I was born in Texas, fo...

Here's another early Grassroots Press column from 2004: American consumerism has entered its final, baroque stage. "Baroque...

In 2003, before I started my New Earth Times blog, I wrote a series of articles for Grassroots Press in which I presented some basic histori...