One of our wanderers in residence — Balinor Lyre — is a sage of both alchemy and music. Balinor initially pursued the path of an academic scholar. But, one day, Balinor experienced a cataclysmic psychic event (that’s all he’ll say about it — with a twinkle in his eye and an enigmatic smile). This ‘event’...Read More

The sun hung low in the sky as Aric and Lyra sat on a weathered stone bench in a courtyard of GrailHeart. “The air floated in the coolness of the fading day, while Aric’s heart sank, heavy with quiet frustration.” “I don’t know if I can keep doing this,” Aric confessed, his voice low. “No...Read More

A guest post by GrailHeart Wanderer in Residence Luca di Benedetto There are some days when the world feels like it’s pressing down on you, like it’s all just too much. The kind of day when the questions and doubts pile up faster than you can shove them away. I used to spend those days...Read More

Space-time is doomed! So says David Gross, Nobel Laureate in Theoretical Physics. And he has plenty of company in the physics community. He doesn’t mean that space-time itself is doomed, but that our concept of it has to go. Here’s why… Theoretical physics — concerned with the basics of how the Cosmos works — is roughly...Read More

In an age where science has unraveled the mysteries of the cosmos, offering us unparalleled knowledge about the physical world, we find ourselves grappling with a profound question: how do we use this knowledge wisely? The distinction between knowledge and wisdom has never been more crucial. While science provides us with facts and understanding, wisdom...Read More

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was a 20th-century German author with a stature in that language more or less equivalent to Hemmingway or Melville in English. His last novel was The Glass Bead Game, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature (1946). Most Nobel Prize-winning literature goes over my head, but not this book....Read More

“We have art so that we shall not die of reality.”  —  Friedrich Nietzsche The book of Genesis in the Bible famously says that God created humanity “in our own image.” We’ve returned the favor – creating Gods in OUR own image. That is, human-like, only really really big. For example, the God of the...Read More

It seems to me that humans occupy two worlds at the same time. One is the external physical world, the other is our inner psychic world — the world of our inner consciousness. As we explore the physical world, we encounter other beings who seem to have an inner world like ours: fellow humans, and animals, such...Read More