• Is God a gaffer?

    My friend Michael Ventura, seeing these photos I sent around via email this morning, said this: `Know what a gaffer is? A gaffer sets up the lights on a movie set. At a party in LA some time back, my friend Big and I — old screenwriting partners — were saying that God must be…

  • Will Obama Be a Peacemaker?

    John Whitehead column

  • Nice thought

    A friend sends this, which I am delighted to pass along. “You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.” –Buckminster Fuller, mathematician and philosopher who never graduated from college but received 46 doctorates

  • Bob Monroe’s Journey

    The book that became Muddy Tracks started out as Living In Monroe’s New World, but my editor thought that it hurt the book to split the focus between my own experiences and Monroe’s. I still don’t know if I was right to listen, but I did. It occurred to me this morning that this might…

  • Will Seattle become a city without a newspaper?

    Thoughts from a long-time P-I staff member on the passing of an institution

  • Reasonable Magic and Magical Reason (1)

    Exploring The Philosophy of Robert Monroe

  • Reasonable Magic and Magical Reason (2)

    part two of Joseph Felser’s analysis of Robert Monroe’s philosophy

  • Reasonable Magic and Magical Reason (3)

    Joseph Felser’s analysis of Bob Monroe, continued

  • Reasonable Magic and Magical Reason (4)

    Monroe’s philosophy, continued

  • Reasonable Magic and Magical Reason (5)

    Monroe’s philosophy