The Slave Boy Who Knew Geometry In one of philosophy's most remarkable scenes, Socrates calls over an uneducated slave boy and proceeds to demonstrate something impossible. Through questioning alone, without teaching anything, Socrates leads the boy to discover the solution to a complex geometric problem. The boy has never studied mathematics. He cannot read. He has received no instruction in the properties of squares and their diagonals. Yet when Socrates asks the right ques

The Great Disappointment You've imagined it a thousand times. The moment when everything changes. Light pouring through the crown of your head. Cosmic unity flooding your awareness. The dissolution of self into infinite radiance. Perhaps you've pictured yourself sitting in perfect stillness when suddenly the veil parts and you see, truly see, for the first time. The colours become impossibly vivid. Time stops. You weep with the unbearable beauty of existence. Everything you'v