If we take a sufficiently long text—for example, a novel, a collection of articles, a large linguistic corpus, and so on—and count how many times the various words appear, we discover a very precise regularity. The most frequent word appears a great many times. The second appears a little less of…

What we call “quantum” does not necessarily concern only the microscopic world, nor does it depend essentially on the specificity of the material systems being observed. Rather, it designates a particular form of organization, which can manifest whenever an entity is placed in a context capable o…

Avoidance is one of fear’s most elegant traps. It works, but only apparently. I avoid what I fear, my anxiety decreases, and I feel momentarily safe. The problem is that this very relief becomes the implicit, but misleading, proof that the danger was real: “If I avoided it and now I feel better, …

A few days ago, I listened to a video by someone who was speaking about esoteric topics, and in particular about the possible existence of individuals with non-ordinary characteristics. What struck me was not so much the subject itself, but the way it was being treated. This person offered an ext…

There are moments in history when humanity does not merely invent a new technology. It discovers a threshold. It opens a door that gives access to a level of reality that had, until then, remained hidden. This happened with nuclear energy. And today it is happening again with artificial intellige…

C’è stato un periodo della mia vita in cui seguivo gli insegnamenti di alcuni maestri spirituali. Ricordo che uno di loro insisteva su un’interpretazione affascinante, e apparentemente molto profonda, della parola “rivelare”.

There is a recurring linguistic signal in certain spiritual environments that should immediately alert a student—or a potential one. It is the systematic use of phrases such as: “what I’m telling you is only a simplification of something much more complex,” “some things cannot be explained in wor…

The term “black sheep” refers to people who are not particularly respectful of established rules. I am not referring to irreverence for its own sake, but to the freedom to transgress when one senses that a rule no longer expresses—or never expressed—truth. This trait is essential for anyone who s…

Let me tell you a short story. Imagine you are an armed guard. You are walking through the city when you see an individual running out of a store while people are shouting, “Stop the thief! Stop the thief!”...

Diversity does not concern only different skin colors, religions, cultures, traditions, or ways of living and perceiving oneself, but also—and above all—the existence of different ideas. Now, simply because different ideas exist, some of them will inevitably end up offending some people. What, th…

In Latin, the term circare belonged to the hunting lexicon: it described the way a dog would move, tracing progressively wider circles around the places where the prey had been sighted. The verb ricercare (“to research” or “to search again”), by contrast, has an iterative value and indicates the …