Psychology Today

Things are not only queerer than Einstein imagined, but queerer than even Lewis Carroll imagined.

We go to and fro our little affairs on an insignificant little planet orbiting an insignificant little sun. Scientists tell us that the universe doesn’t care if we—the little creatures who inhabit this earth—are alive or dead. But there’s a problem with this view—a big problem.

The world, it turns out, isn’t the hard, cold place we imagine waking up to in the morning. We scientists are only beginning to pierce the surface of reality.

While driving past Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, the great psychologist turned to me and said “You know, Rob, one day I’m going to be over there.” Now, thirty years later, it’s hard for me to drive by in the spring when the majestic trees are all in bloom.

We’ve all been taught that time and space exist. They’re real. Or are they? Films, novels, and television shows overflow with examples of characters transcending the everyday boundaries of space and time. But now, new experiments suggest there’s more than a morsel of truth in this popular culture genre.

What Spinoza and Pink Floyd can teach us about happiness and pain.

The key to understanding life and nature. Why you’re free to enjoy the unfolding of life without the guilt-ridden sense of control, and the obsessive need to avoid messing up. What appears “out there” is actually occurring in your mind, not in an external location distant from yourself.

Recent discoveries require us to rethink our understanding of history. I just read Stephen King's new novel "11/22/63" about a man who travels back in time to change the world. Amazingly, it turns out the past isn't set in stone. A series of real experiments suggest history is a biological phenomenon, and that the past might depend on actions you haven’t taken yet.

Life is an adventure that transcends our ordinary linear way of thinking.