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...

On Self-Consciousness Next time you are alone in a crowd, do a little meditation and record how you feel. You are alone of course, the...

On the selflessness of your visual field Ever since restarting my meditation practice with longer (30-60 minute) daily sessions, I have...

Sad and short of breath? Avoiding this feeling won't make it go away. The key insight of Buddhism around suffering are almost...

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...

Evolving perceptions of reality Humans are always splitting, grouping, and distinguishing; so much so that the, “there are two kinds of...

Free-floating consciousness The instructions are very simple and work: be with what is, drop all concepts, don’t grasp what’s pleasant,...

...and being what is It is a simple yet profound instruction: just be with what is. Before concept. Don’t label things. Don’t think,...

A headless-and-shoulderless practice What does it mean that there is no self or that the goal of mindfulness is to understand your true...

An intimacy with your mind Ram Dass would call his honed conscious state loving awareness, which always struck me as the most colorful...

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...

The Persistent Mental Model I Call Me Our most prevalent mental model is our sense of self, our thought of psychological continuity, the...

Perspective on perspective taking We are forever on the inside looking out. This is one of the first things impressed upon us by the...

How do you value life? Imagine life was a video game, how would you score it? There would likely be some sort of extrinsic value—the coin...

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...

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...

An examined life for everyone. Substack newsletter on philosophy, mindfulness, and physics.

I recently interviewed with Matt Welsh of the Spiritual Media Podcast and covered Meaning in the Multiverse: A Skeptic's Guide to a...

If you asked, “what does consciousness look like?” one answer is a faded black & purple scene similar to the cosmic background radiation.

Isn’t a planet in peril, 1% of world’s population forcibly displaced, and the renewed rise of authoritarianism a crisis of love & meaning?