Introduction to Zen Buddhism
Zen Buddhism, originating in China during the Tang Dynasty as "Chan," later spread to Korea (as Seon), Vietnam (as Thiền), and...
Introduction: Prayer as a Universal Spiritual Language
Prayer is one of humanity's most enduring and universal spiritual practices. Across religious traditions and cultures, it functions...
Buddhism is one of the world's most venerable spiritual traditions. Buddhist Spirituality offers a profound and practical framework for understanding the nature of life,...
This essay introduces a comprehensive series exploring four of the world's major religious traditions and their enduring impact on human spirituality.
The human quest for...
Introduction: Mapping the Subtle Body
Within the vast landscape of Eastern philosophies, few concepts have captured the modern imagination as profoundly as the chakra system....
Introduction
Throughout human history, civilizations have recognized patterns in nature that seem to transcend mere coincidence. The spiral of a nautilus shell mirrors the structure...
The Enduring Significance of Labyrinths: Myth, Psychology, and Modern Practice
The labyrinth stands as one of humanity's most enduring and universal symbols, appearing across diverse...
Introduction
The spiral is among the most enduring and enigmatic symbols found across human cultures, tracing its roots back tens of thousands of years....
This article previously appeared on the now defunct website shamanicgarden.earth, which I published, under a different title - Kevin Parker Site Publisher
Abstract: This article...
Executive Abstract
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the biomedical sciences represents the most significant discontinuity in the history of medicine since the germ theory of disease. For decades, the pharmaceutical and medical research sectors have been held hostage by Eroom’s Law—the observation that drug discovery becomes...
1. Historical Baseline
Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent
The jaguar padded through continuous forest from Mexico's Yucatan to Colombia's Darién Gap, never leaving tree cover across 2,000 kilometers.¹ Central America's narrow isthmus—never more than 200 kilometers wide—functioned as Earth's great biological bridge, enabling species exchange between continents for three million years...
The question of whether Christianity can become genuinely "green" forces us into uncomfortable theological and philosophical territory. It requires confronting not merely lapses in practice but potential flaws in foundational doctrine, while simultaneously excavating buried wisdom that mainstream Christianity has systematically suppressed. The tension between recovering lost...
We have been taught to look down. To see the airports, the concrete, the crowds, and the queues as the footprint of flight. Or we look at the numbers, the comforting, almost negligible figures. Aviation, the industry tells us, accounts for just 2.5% of global CO2 emissions.¹
It...
The Convergence of Poetry and Logic
The history of science is frequently punctuated by figures who exist at the confluence of opposing forces—individuals whose intellects bridge the chasm between the empirical and the imaginative. Among these, few cast a longer or more complex shadow than Augusta Ada King,...
The question Philip K. Dick posed in 1968 was never really about sheep.
It was about the ineffable thing that separates life from simulation, consciousness from computation, being from seeming. In his dystopian San Francisco, where nuclear fallout had rendered authentic animals nearly extinct, owning a real sheep...
The question of whether Christianity can become genuinely "green" forces us into uncomfortable theological and philosophical territory. It requires confronting not merely lapses in practice but potential flaws in foundational doctrine, while simultaneously excavating buried wisdom that mainstream Christianity has systematically suppressed. The tension between recovering lost...
*An ABC Australia report on Moltbook (February 2026) and the ensuing security coverage is the spark for this commentary—because beneath the memes is a serious preview of where “agentic AI” is heading.*¹ - Kevin Parker - Site Publisher
Moltbook arrived like a prank from the near future: a...
Earth’s poles—vast, fragile, warming fast—anchor global climate. Indigenous wisdom, science, and cooperation are key to preserving these icy wildernesses.
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