Precious Consciousness
Treat with Care Recently, I’ve not been able to fall asleep until hours after I’ve lain down in bed. I’m not having particularly profound...
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- Oct 20
- 2 min
In the thick of it
Mindfulness only works, when it works If there is a place where my mindfulness practice does not reliably go—it is into the thick of...
- Sep 20
- 2 min
An itch... in the middle of the room
On the selflessness of your visual field Ever since restarting my meditation practice with longer (30-60 minute) daily sessions, I have...
- Sep 15
- 2 min
The Aversion Constrictor
Sad and short of breath? Avoiding this feeling won't make it go away. The key insight of Buddhism around suffering are almost...
- Sep 13
- 2 min
The Dream Scenes of Small Thoughts
Missing out on life by playing little vignettes on the stage of the mind The constant distraction of thought offers much to investigate…...
- Aug 29
- 2 min
Proud of the Past Me
Who exists only as a dream, but with an impact on my future My dad recently sent me a photo of me from when I was ten years old. I had a...
- Aug 8
- 3 min
Overlapping Magisteria
Evolving perceptions of reality Humans are always splitting, grouping, and distinguishing; so much so that the, “there are two kinds of...
- Jun 29
- 2 min
Loving Awareness
An intimacy with your mind Ram Dass would call his honed conscious state loving awareness, which always struck me as the most colorful...
- Jun 22
- 2 min
In Your Head
A non-duel with headlessness Last night (and not for the first time) I was mindful while staring into the overlapping branches of a few...
- Jun 16
- 1 min
Practice
A Poem of Persistence Observing the nature of your mind, skillfully filling your mind with intimate experience, being consciousness, is a...
- Jun 14
- 1 min
I am always thinking of me, myself, and I
The Persistent Mental Model I Call Me Our most prevalent mental model is our sense of self, our thought of psychological continuity, the...
- Jun 8
- 1 min
The Wrong-Side of the Bed
Grumpy? Begin again... Today I woke up on the proverbial wrong side of the bed. Yesterday too, if I’m being honest. Frustrated. Behind...
- May 11
- 2 min
On the Inside, Looking Out
Perspective on perspective taking We are forever on the inside looking out. This is one of the first things impressed upon us by the...
- May 4
- 1 min
Love and Life's Illusions
A Brief Journey to Love Without Grasping The existence of love in our lives is one of our greatest aspirations. It comes in so many...
- Apr 28
- 1 min
The Formlessness of Consciousness
In meditation, we are told to make space, that we are boundless awareness, that we have no head, or that any sensations in the body are...
- Apr 25
- 3 min
What is Ordinary, Illuminated
An examined life for everyone. Substack newsletter on philosophy, mindfulness, and physics.
- Mar 14, 2021
- 1 min
Spiritual Media Podcast
I recently interviewed with Matt Welsh of the Spiritual Media Podcast and covered Meaning in the Multiverse: A Skeptic's Guide to a...
- Feb 21, 2021
- 3 min
The Inner Universe
If you asked, “what does consciousness look like?” one answer is a faded black & purple scene similar to the cosmic background radiation.
- Feb 14, 2021
- 5 min
Love Lost and Found
Isn’t a planet in peril, 1% of world’s population forcibly displaced, and the renewed rise of authoritarianism a crisis of love & meaning?
- Feb 11, 2021
- 5 min
A Review of "A Glitch in the Matrix"
For as long as humans have been casting shadows on walls, we have wondered “what is real?” and “what is just a shadow of reality?”