The Dawn of Life
Hello everyone, As usual, I hope you are all well. I want you to contemplate all the factors that your wellness depends on. Many of you will think instinctively to your loved ones; your friends and your family. You may also be thinking of the material things needed to sustain...
David Whyte and the Man with No Head
In this piece I discuss to novel pointers to the intimacy of the present moment: Douglas Harding's teachings into headlessness and the poety of David Whyte....
A Beatific Vision
Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well. I have made some technical updates to the website in the past week, I made what are called embed cards which allow me to style embedded content so that it is more streamlined with the rest of my website. You can...
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The best thing that can happen to a human being is to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.Karl Popper
What is consciousness?
Hello everyone, I have a question for you all. "What is consciousness?" It's not a trick question. In fact, I don't think it should be a hard question. The hard problem is how consciousness arises, not what it is. I have had conversations with otherwise intelligent people who didn't seem...
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Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident or disease.Steven Pinker
Don't Stress
In life we come across a whole myriad of different kinds of situations, each requiring us to respond in different ways. Not knowing how to address the different vicissitudes of life is a cause for much of the difficulty in it. There isn’t a single clear cut solution to...