The Wilderness Teaches: Nature as Angelic Proxy
We are fond of saying that the wilderness teaches. We’ve explained what we mean several times in the past, but we like to revisit theView More
The Qur’an is a Survival Manual: A Neurolinguistic Argument
I’m going to do my best to explain this. It’s absolutely fascinating, but pretty academic. And I’m not even sure that I understand it all,View More
How to Make Your Revolution Actually Successful
The Arab Spring of 2011 was stupid. It’s an infantile and embarrassing example of how social media will hijack human frustration and our natural desireView More
Why It’s Not Enough to Be “Good”
A snake slips into a bird’s nest and devours her eggs. Is the snake good or bad? Which one of these appraisals is the ultimateView More
A Hiking Meditation: The Outlander’s Manifesto
Guide us to the Straight Path. Q1:6 Walk until your head is clear. Walk until the shadows have lifted. Walk until your rumination gives wayView More
Respect the Spiral: Life Repeats Itself for an Important Reason
Most of you coming across this will have intuited the circular nature of your timeline. You have almost certainly had repeat experiences, repeat failures, repeatView More