Spirituality & Meditation

Right Now, It's Like This

A short phrase that brings relief.

Mar 4 •

3:46

Check In on Your Elephant

Hey there, how are you doing?

Dec 23, 2024 •

Meditation and Psychedelics: Between Mental Health and Spiritual Awakening

On the occasionally divergent goals of personal happiness, collective change, and spiritual realization. (A news-diet safe post.)

Nov 27, 2024 •

How to Survive the Next Week

If you're not feeling anxious, you're probably not paying attention.. Here are some suggestions from our journalist-rabbi-meditation teacher in…

Oct 29, 2024 •

Eden Pearlstein: Why Nothing Really Matters

But in the mystical, not nihilistic, sense of the word

Sep 17, 2024 •

32:29

Mysticism for Normies

On the utility (and limitations) of cultivating momentary peak experience flashbacks while at your kid's gym class. Plus some exciting career news.

Sep 5, 2024 •

Don't Take Your Thoughts So Seriously!

Also inside: the great secret of meditation

Aug 21, 2024 •

You Are Wiser Than You Were

The last few years have been a lot. Here's a short dharma talk on how you may have grown wiser as a result.

Aug 6, 2024 •

Feel the Shittiness

It's counterproductive to deny that things look bad for America right now. But you can turn the shit into fertilizer.

Jul 2, 2024 •

What is Meditation For?

Thoughts on the small surge of interest in jhana meditation, once a thing that only I and a few other people cared about.

Jun 19, 2024 •

What I Learned from Being Gaslit about Lyme Disease (by Myself and the Medical Establishment)

Newfound sympathy for the Anti-Vaxxer and Climate Denier, among other disturbing turns of events.

May 8, 2024 •

The Frantic Politics of Cortisol

The favorite drug of toxic dudes, terrified parents, and the loudest protesters on the lawn.

Apr 25, 2024 •

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