The 0.0035 Percent World
Human beings perceive only a narrow window of the physical world, yet we often mistake that window for reality itself. Exploring visible light, animal senses, technology, ego and consciousness, this post considers how recognizing the limits of perception can lead us—not to unsupported conclusions, but to curiosity, humility and a more honest relationship with the unknown.
Creating Who I Am
I did not choose the original materials that shaped me—my biology, family, religion, culture, or circumstances. But as awareness enters the process, unconscious patterns become visible and new responses become possible. I may not be the sole author of myself, but I can consciously participate in the person I am becoming.
Who Am I
For much of my life, other people’s answers told me who I was. As those inherited certainties loosened, a deeper question emerged: Am I simply the product of biology, conditioning, and circumstance—or is there an observing awareness capable of participating in what I become? Perhaps identity is not something we finally discover, but something that becomes more conscious as we continue creating it.
Annoyed the Hell Into Me
My divorce reduced “we” to “me” and left me searching for relief. What began as painful rumination gradually became a lifelong inquiry into ego, soul, consciousness, and whether suffering can lead us toward a wiser way of being human.
Is Anger a Tool or a Weapon?
Anger can feel like power when something is wrong, blocked, or unfair. But anger itself is neither the solution nor the enemy. It is energy asking for direction. The question is whether I surrender my choices to it—or use awareness to decide what I actually want that energy to accomplish.
I particularly like that last sentence because it sets up the central metaphor of the essay without giving away the closing line about awareness deciding what to do with the hammer.
Processing Dreams: Bringing the Night Into the Light
Vivid dreams can leave behind fear, sadness, peace, inspiration, or possibility long after we awaken. Rather than dismissing dreams or treating them as literal truth, I explore how bringing their emotions into conscious awareness can reveal what matters to us—and help us choose what, if anything, to carry into waking life.
The Dreamer Behind the Dream
A vivid dream about my missing granddaughter led me to a much larger question: Who is actually experiencing the dream? Exploring the sleeping brain, ego, consciousness, and what I call the soul, I wonder whether awakening from a dream offers a glimpse of another kind of awakening—the ability to step outside the stories of waking life and observe the character I call myself.
My Theory of Everything About Being Human
Being human is an extraordinarily complicated game, and none of us arrives with an instruction manual. My theory of everything explores how our body, emotions, mind, relationships, ego, soul, and awareness continually interact—and how greater intelligence, love, and conscious choice might help us play this brief and remarkable game of life more fully.
The Choices Fear Hides
The quality of our decisions depends partly on the possibilities we can see. Fear narrows our view until life resembles a tunnel with only one exit. But when the mind becomes still and the ego works in harmony with the soul, our perspective widens. We begin to recognize options fear had hidden—and sometimes imagine possibilities that did not exist before.
Waking From the Dream Within the Dream
Sometimes awakening isn’t about escaping ordinary life, but seeing it from a wider perspective. When I stop becoming completely absorbed in problems, plans, and worries, I begin to recognize the awareness experiencing them. Perhaps awakening means living fully inside the dream without becoming completely lost in it.