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By ALAN HARRIS

 In the larger picture, we’re not that much different from the rest of the animal kingdom, except that we can build within or outside the laws of nature.Follow what are observable truths or jump down rabbit holes, jump off cliffs, ignore the weather,...

By ALAN HARRIS

All the pundits and commentators are buried in duplicity or despair. The darkness is descending and we, mortal victims swim frantically for some shore where hands and faces greet with reassurance that mere survival is off the table and that one can...

By ALAN HARRIS

Our Barnum and Bailey world gets more bizarre every day. Nothing astonishes. My core beliefs, however, are my guides. There’s always a higher way. There’s always a world where we know morality from apostasy, or renunciation of core beliefs.We’re...

By ALAN HARRIS

Last season I submitted a My Turn called “Remember who we are.” It’s easy to feel pessimistic with two wars simultaneously vying for our compassion. That column eschewed pessimism in favor of respecting our real place in the universe. I cited a...

By ALAN HARRIS

Many aspiring authoritarians assume the grandiosity of history’s monsters as though immune to the unfolding tragedy that may ultimately consume them. The appeal is intoxicating. Power can be a drug as we know. Benevolent rule a luxury, most often...

By ALAN HARRIS

Gobbledygook Brook, our preferred home for GOP presidential wannabes, was just visited by the candidates in a bloodbath of farcical prepositioning: a fruitless cause for recognition as the front-runner, while they remain solidly at the back of their...

By ALAN HARRIS

Revolutionary psychology includes the powers we possess to define destiny less by evolutionary routes than by seeing the mind as a more infinite source of direction, wisdom, and connection. To many that’s just gobbledygook. To others it’s the route to...

By ALAN HARRIS

Imagine the future when ChatGPT and other new platforms have twisted the average intelligence into a complete web of indifferent entities and realities that reduce the human population to a tangled mass of interlocking neural pathways. These present a...