Another video blog! Guided meditation with a mini lecture.
End Patriarchy Now
In a culture so focused on rugged individualism and competition as a measure of worthiness, it’s unsurprising that there is disgust toward victims. When you have…
The Feelings We Deny Rule Us
Video blog!
Oxy-Toxins Flowing: On Belonging and Bigotry
In Robert Sapolsky’s Behave, an impressive survey of studies and insights over years of research into human behavior and neurobiology, he reveals a curious and…
Conflict Brings Us Together
Many of us feel wearied by constant outrage and long for imagined days of civil conversation, but anger is energy. When people feel provoked or…
Polarization Drives Us Apart
As the topic of what is or is not appropriate within civil discourse circulates the miasma of outrage that suffuses the Internet, I think on…
Neither wholly In nor wholly Out
If reality is a hallucination created by the brain from our environment, biological processes, and learning history, then one cannot escape the questions of whether one’s…
Between Many Worlds: Cosmology and Psychology
Cosmology inform psychology. What we believe about the universe’s nature and purpose, if any, affects our base understanding of our own purpose and nature. Before…
The Temple of Air
I envision a Temple of Air, nestled on the cliff side of a mountain. Great open portals face east, toward the rising sun, allowing that…
Failure and the Great Tantrum of Learning
A while back I wrote about studying a martial art and confronting my challenges in learning to fall safely. At the time, I’d had a…