Empathy's Return from Psychiatry's Abyss: How Psychology Misplaced Humanity for Half a Century

 A brief glimpse at how the fathers of modern mind‑science accidentally deleted empathy

And how it came roaring back like a tobacco-addicted raccoon 

 Empathy, that slippery little moral climbing skill everyone suddenly claims to possess, is enjoying a renaissance so dramatic you’d think it had been hiding in a bunker since 1947. And in a way, it has. Because for most of the 20th century, the fathers of psychiatry and psychology treated empathy the way a Cold War bureaucrat treated nuance: 

The Miracles That Happen Before You Die

 The miracle in the moment — where heaven meets asphalt.

Why the living keep seeing God in the ditch, while the dead keep seeing a hallway

There’s a peculiar divide in the modern marketplace of near‑death storytelling. On one side, you have the alive people — the ones who were pinned under a truck, swept off a cliff, encountered high crimes and misdemeanors, or stared down a cardiac event with the calm of a monk and the blood pressure of a hummingbird. These folks tell stories that feel like miracles: sudden clarity, sudden strength, sudden presence. They speak of God the way a person speaks of someone who actually showed up.

The Young Entrepreneur, the Old Hand, and the AI Revolution

 A look at AI, intention, and the collapse of the old learning order

He was standing in a traditional cigar shop when the line drifted over the hum of ventilation — a young entrepreneur telling a few listeners, “A friend of mine says, 'I use AI like it’s my slave.'” The Old Hand heard it, breathed in the aroma of cigar, and chuckled. The share was bold, sounded familiar, but also like the friend of the friend was repeating the oldest mistake in the book by assuming the newest machine is anything like the oldest machine.