Dance It Out
Synopsis: Strasbourg’s council met the dancing epidemic of 1518 by paying for more music.
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Musings on Wisdom and Meaning
Wisdom, meaning, purpose, ethics, values, and the search for a life that is worth living.
The Priesthood Problem
Professionalism, Expertise, and the Quiet Surrender of the Self
This Land Is Sacred
How the Sacred is Excluded by Industrial Economism
The Membrane and the Bloodstream
Examining the passage from utterance to belief
The Metabolism of Discourse
We are living through an era in which the compression of attention has become so total that we no longer register it as compression.
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When Numbers Whisper Sweet Nothings
Mathematics, Meaning, and the Search for Intentionality
Beyond the Final Curtain
Consciousness, Quantum Reality, and the Illusion of Death
Something Behind the Eyes
In the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the horror was never the alien.
The Note That Almost Wasn't
A Personal Revelation Recently Discovered
What the Humanities Still Know
Silencing the Choir that Taught the Parrot to Sing
The Instrument and The Cage
What Language Does When No One is Watching
The Conscious Universe
Exploring the Frontiers of Mind & Reality
Hunger of the Soul
Soul-sickness as Initiation to Ecority
Reading at the Speed of Thought
How the speed of a medium shapes the depth of thinking
The Art of Being Present & Alert
Reclaiming Awareness in a World of Distraction
The Weight of Witness
There’s a particular satisfaction in dispensing advice about other people’s sorrows.
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