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...

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…...

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...

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...

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...

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?

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?”