A Poem of Persistence Observing the nature of your mind, skillfully filling your mind with intimate experience, being consciousness, is a...

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

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

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...

The greatest, most unbiased knowledge of our existence and our passage through it comes from this two-step alliteration of the scientific...

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?

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?”

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.

A subtitle offers a glimpse of the content and character of a book. "A Skeptic’s Guide to a Loving Cosmos" is the subtitle for my new book.

In the 4 years it took me to write “Meaning in the Multiverse,"I learned a lot about organizing thoughts, researching, and self-motivation.

What do you think the universe is made of? What can explain not only what you see, but also the fact that it is described by math and logic?

Refugees living among us have even more to share than grit and smarts. They act as a mirror to our humanity & offer a perspective on fear.

"The Great Influenza" is a testament to the bravery of medical pros, the grit of scientists, and how we miss society when it disappears.

Today's existential crisis are gonna feel worse since failing to solve them eliminates humankind’s opportunity at a truly mesmerizing future

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

Coming to terms with our fears and discovering what dying has to teach us about life.

Appreciation of our ordinary conscious experience. The illumination that takes place in every present moment, no matter how typical.

Can we tell the historic nature or implications of this once-in-a-century health crisis coupled with a once-in-a-century economic crisis?