Not Bagging It

This blog is a grab bag (a "grab blog"?) of bits and pieces of unfinished and underformed ideas collected in my Context&Context weblog for booksandculture.com, and my former Thought of the Day strand at my personal weblog. There I recklessly ruminated on such imponderables as the faith of science, suicidal civilizations, the philosophy of consciousness, and the dark side of the contemplative life. I proceed here with potentially pertinent ponderings.