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  • The Big (Soul) University

    The entire existential project behind Karl Jaspers’ Idea of the University involves integrating a professor’s research with students’ search for their own selves. The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself… Continue reading

    The Big (Soul) University

  • Yes, Your Opinion Can Be Wrong

    The worst phrase to show up in any discussion: “It’s just my opinion.” Is your opinion informed with cogent facts? It could very well be right. And more than likely, you will not preface the statement with “It’s just my… Continue reading

    Yes, Your Opinion Can Be Wrong

  • Buddhism and Psychedelic Methods

    Austin Hill Shaw examines the nature of creativity, cosmology and psychedelic communion. Shaw practices in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition, “taking refuge in the Buddhist path” since 2002. Rather than seeing the use of psychedelic substances as antithetical to a Buddhist… Continue reading

    Buddhism and Psychedelic Methods

  • Hacking Education Begins with Good Habits and Practical Knowledge

    I often talk with youth (here and here are some examples) about how what they are doing in high school and/or university may not be giving them everything they need. There are lot of ways, however, that the system can… Continue reading

    Hacking Education Begins with Good Habits and Practical Knowledge

  • Why We Need Philosophers Engaged In Public Life

    UC-Berkley psychology professor, Dr. Tania Lombrozo, makes an argument for why we need more philosophers engaging in the public realm. Say “philosopher” and most people imagine a bust of Socrates, obscure texts or intellectual tête-à-têtes in the so-called Ivory Tower,… Continue reading

  • justification

    journeying unto something tracking incompleteness finishing into counter affectations twisting incongruence onto nihilism Continue reading

  • Karl Jaspers as Interdisciplinarian

    A very solid piece on the interdisciplinary nature of Jaspers’ psychopathology as well as the connection of his first great work on the embodied mind to his later existential and historical works. As the managing editor of the Oxford Handbook… Continue reading

    Karl Jaspers as Interdisciplinarian

  • Occupying Space

    A man should be so poor that he is not and has not a place for God to act in. To reserve a place would be to maintain distinctions. Meister Eckhart quoted in Merton, Thomas. Zen and the Birds of… Continue reading

    Occupying Space

  • Jerome Bruner, “Creative Wholeness” and How We Limit Our Happiness

    If one is to contain the panicking spread of anxiety, one must be able to identify and put a comprehensible label upon one’s feelings better to treat them again, better to learn from experience… Myth, perhaps, serves in place of… Continue reading

  • Hugging Meditation

    According to the practice, you have to really hug the person you are holding. You have to make him or her very real in your arms, not just for the sake of appearances, patting him on the back to pretend… Continue reading

  • never stressing, all flows

    Nameless, the Way does without naming. Not naming, it makes no plans. Making no plans, it never stresses. Never stressing, all flows. Continue reading

    never stressing, all flows

  • Philosophy Should Come Out to Play

    I want to suggest that we divide play into two major categories; active and passive. The passive forms — let’s call them amusements — are indeed suspicious, as they seem to anesthetize the agent and reduce creative engagement. From our… Continue reading

  • Is that so? Maybe.

    Zen Master Hakuin (1686-1769) travelled extensively to learn from other masters. When he was 32 years old, he returned to the Shoin-ji, the temple in his home town of Hara, in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture. Here he devoted himself to teaching… Continue reading

    Is that so? Maybe.

  • Don’t Worry, Be Grumpy

    Buddhist monk Ajahn Brahm will describe how to upload ancient wisdom into modern technology. He will reveal the code for the antivirus to stress, show how to delete depression, and give Buddha-tech support to peace of mind. Synergizing Mindfulness with… Continue reading

    Don’t Worry, Be Grumpy

  • Liminality… and Hope – Patricia Damery

    Liminality is a word that people ask me to repeat twice when I say it, as if they didn’t hear it quite right the first time. As a Jungian analyst, I recognize the liminal state as that of many entering… Continue reading

  • Mind Altering

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    Mind Altering

  • Outrospection

    Introspection is out, and outrospection is in. Philosopher and author Roman Krznaric explains how we can help drive social change by stepping outside ourselves. Continue reading

    Outrospection

  • Overcoming the McMindfulness Craze

    Jeffrey R. Rubin examines the troubles that arise when meditative practices of detachment, like those in Buddhism, are decontextualized and used to further repress our emotions. He recommends another kind of engaged reflection called emancipatory meditation. Emancipatory meditation – which involves intimacy with… Continue reading