Essays
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Are Minds Made of Wonder? I'm beginning to suspect it's strangely plausible that awareness is something like wonder incarnate.
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Pouring Milk on My Father's Scalding Bones Sudden death and the sadhana that remains.
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Tripping Alone In which I visit an ayahuasca church in Oregon to scrutinize why we in the West trip in such a peculiar fashion.
Journalism
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What If You Could Have a Panic Attack, but for Joy? Mindfulness is one thing. Jhāna meditation is stranger, stronger, and going mainstream.
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Abundance Is Up for Grabs Sectoral bargaining, free time, and a more progressive abundance agenda.
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Meditation Is More Than Either Stress Relief or Enlightenment Meditation science is finally getting into the weird stuff.
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Post-Scarcity's More Modest Utopia It was once normal for economists to imagine a world with less work. What happened?
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The World's Most Mysterious Psychedelic Is Already Inside Your Brain DMT, "the nuclear bomb of the psychedelic family," kind of explained to the best of our current ability.
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Must Minds Be Made of Meat? Whether or not AI might ever become conscious depends on The Great Substrate Debate over computational functionalism.
Podcasts
More writing on my Substack, the Vox archive, or if you're really courageous, my blog archive.
If you'd like to work with me, swap notes, or take a walk in Prospect Park, don't hesitate to reach out.