Metta for Everyone
I struggled with Metta practice for years, but through my work teaching children, I found a new way to approach my own practice. I hope this series helps others connect to the transformative exercise of cultivating compassion.
Posts Categorized: My Projects
My Interview with Lex Fridman
Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #326
Nautilus Article: Is Consciousness Everywhere?
The great mystery of consciousness is why matter lights up with felt experience. After all, we are composed of particles indistinguishable from those swirling around in the sun; the atoms that compose your body were once the ingredients of countless stars in our universe’s past. They traveled for billions of years to land here—in this particular configuration that is you—and are now reading these words…
Click here to continue reading my article in Nautilus Magazine, “Is Consciousness Everywhere?”
The Future of Panpsychism
My commentary on Philip Goff’s Galileo’s Error for the Journal of Consciousness Studies, along with papers by Carlo Rovelli, Sean Carroll, Anil Seth, Galen Strawson, and others will be published in a special issue of JoCS in October 2021. In the meantime, my piece is available now on my website.
A Mountain Is Only A Slow Wave
I wrote an introduction for Judith Stenneken’s new photography book A Mountain is Only a Slow Wave. Judith undertakes parallel investigations into time and consciousness through her photographic work, and I hope my piece on impermanence serves to enhance the power of her images. Click the link below to read a preview of the essay and learn more about Judith’s beautiful and interesting project.