January 2015

Near-Life Experience (NLE)

Near-death, but happy   A near-death experience (NDE) is a personal or subjective experience associated with what are called near-death episodes. In a near-death episode, a person has been declared clinically dead, is very near death, or is in a situation where death is impending, likely or expected. The situations where people have reported near […]

The Alchemy of Seeking the Aesthetic in the Everyday

By the time this appears in print, the wistfully evocative season of autumn will have faded to Winter and the year will have changed. Autumn is considered the most aesthetic of the seasons in the scheme of traditional Japanese aesthetics and the natural languishing of organic energies signals the recollection of experience and the withdrawal […]