What Is Life For? Some Reflections on Purpose
There is a ritual I enact each year during the New Year’s holiday: taking a day of silence to reflect on where I’m at and where I’m going. I spend...
View ArticleIf There Is No Self, How Can I Actualize it?
If There Is No Self, How Can I Actualize It? “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”...
View ArticleInquiring Deeply About Transformative Conversation
Since I wrote The Hunger For Deep Conversation (Inquiring Deeply Newsletter, May, 2022), I have been paying close attention to which conversations feel “deep” to me, and why. What I found...
View ArticleThe Slinky Principle
The cycles of my emotional experience have always reminded me of a slinky: the coiled spring toy which fascinated me as a child. Kinetic energy animates a slinky in ways that makes it bounce and...
View ArticleOn The Felt Sense of Emergent Meaning
“Reality lies at the frontier between what you think is you and what you think is not you.” ….. David Whyte PREAMBLE/ CONTEXT: A friend recently gifted me with a 2023 book written by psychotherapist...
View ArticleAnnouncing the publication of INQUIRING DEEPLY: PROBLEMS AS A PATH TO AWARENESS
I am pleased to announce that my new book has now been published and released. I hope that the illustration I chose for the cover (above) will attract your interest in reading it. [Available on...
View ArticleSleepwalking To Extinction?
"Hope is not an appetite for this or that concocted future It is the present seeking itself, the present-- unlearning the past, agnostic of the future-- breathing, in its chains, like the sea.”...
View ArticleSOME REFLECTIONS ON DRUMMING AS AWARENESS PRACTICE
I have been actively involved with studying rhythm since my late twenties. For most of that time, drumming was one of my chief recreational passions in life: a way I enjoyed relating to music and...
View ArticleSome Reflections on Cultivating Subjectivity
INTRODUCTION As readers of this Newsletter likely know, I have spent a good part of both my personal and professional life inquiring deeply about subjectivity and the experience of self. My...
View ArticleInquiring Deeply About Inquiring Deeply
Someone asked me recently to explain what INQUIRING DEEPLY was and how I came to be interested in it. Answering these questions, I was able to see the long arc of the path of awareness practice I...
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