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...

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...

Being prepared for where life's impactful moments will presence themselves Will you be alert to grace when it is in your presence?...

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...

Missing out on life by playing little vignettes on the stage of the mind The constant distraction of thought offers much to investigate…...

A simple algorithm to a good life There are some simple algorithms to living a good life, things that just make sense. “Do unto others,...

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...

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,...

The Jones's will be fine without your ego Grasping in a world of change causes unease, unsatisfactoriness, dissatisfaction, and...

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...

Grumpy? Begin again... Today I woke up on the proverbial wrong side of the bed. Yesterday too, if I’m being honest. Frustrated. Behind...

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.

An excerpt from the first chapter of "Meaning in the Multiverse: A Skeptic's Guide to a Loving Cosmos." Presale now & on shelves 2/12/2021.

Do we experience consciousness as a field, as a network, from outside our selves?