John 1:1
(more like 1/3rd of 1:1 but you get the idea)
I dislike small talk. Typical website “about” pages are digital small talk. Do you want to know my hobbies or do you want to know the real me? I’m more interested in discovering the deep truths of reality—yours and mine—than trading digital icebreakers.
I don’t claim to have incontrovertible answers to anything. I am agnostic about the ultimate nature of reality, but I suspect we’ll always have to live with a modicum of mystery. As we mine the universe for fundamental truth, we find natural explanations for old mysteries while uncovering new and deeper questions.
I don’t believe in dualism, which means—technically—I don’t believe in anything supernatural. But that’s mostly a semantic argument. It does not mean I don’t believe in what some might call “God”.
Despite being passionately atheist in my younger years, as I approach the age of 40, I find myself far more interested in connecting with people over spirituality rather than judging them for it.
I believe reality is far more wonderous and vast than our conscious minds can even begin to comprehend. Whatever the fabric of reality turns out to be, I believe it all arises from some ineffable, indivisible whole. Things that seem disparate, separate, or independent only appear so from our specific umwelt—like the way the opposite poles of a magnet are still the same magnet, or how a wave is an expression of the ocean.
We are something the universe is actively doing—right here and now.
Welcome to the party.
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