Wouldn’t it be nice to know where to look to find a solution to a problem, any problem, all of the time? Before I continue on about reverie and it’s deep significance to happiness, I want to introduce Dr. David R. Hawkins and his most recent book Transcending the Levels of Consciousness – The Stairway […]

Reverie gets a bad rap, if it gets a rap at all. So often confused with dreams, and set aside in the shadows of the great dramas of life, reverie has little to show for itself in the annals of psychology. Bachelard took it upon himself to redeem reverie.
As soon as I started to […]

Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher and phenomenologist who wrote and taught from the 1920’s until his death in 1962. The extent of the influence of his ideas is difficult to gauge and he is little known in the U.S., but in my mind he is essential to anyone who wishes to deeply understand […]

Ever find yourself stuck in something, unable to let go of it? Stuck in a job? Stuck in a feud? Stuck In a miserable relationship? When I get stuck, I go look for the something else I’m really stuck on. It’s invariably an emotional loss of some kind. Being stuck, not letting go… it’s […]

Recently I bought a new bike. I changed my context. In the world of bicycling, the change was fairly significant, from slow steel to fast carbon. But the most important changes for me personally came from the change of context. The new bike allowed me to enter a whole new world in terms of training […]