Butterflies and the Creator

GAME PLAN: It wasn’t planned, this day of mixing spirit and science. It just happened. My friend Kathi and I set out for the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) to see the Butterfly Conservatory exhibit. We wandered through the tropical little enclosure as they...

The concrete and the divine

Contentedly snowed in last night, I was watching Bill Maher when he and his guest, Lawrence Krauss, laughed uproariously at the topic of a Newsweek cover about Dr. Eben Alexander’s book,  Proof of Heaven. Without even a glimmer of openness to anything Tina Brown...

Luscious start to 2013

On the day Hurricane Sandy hit, my friend Kathi and I were supposed to go to St. John the Divine to hear Dr. Eben Alexander talk about his book, Proof of Heaven, A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife. With the aftermath of the storm and then the holidays...